Weakness · High
CWE-420: Unprotected Alternate Channel
What it is
The product protects a primary channel, but it does not use the same level of protection for an alternate channel.
- Severity (our rating)
- High
- Likelihood of exploit
- Not rated by MITRE
- Introduced during
- Architecture and Design, Implementation, Operation
- Exploited in the wild
- 2 known exploited CVEs
What an attacker can do
- Gain Privileges or Assume Identity (Access Control)
- Bypass Protection Mechanism (Access Control)
How to prevent it
Architecture and Design
- Identify all alternate channels and use the same protection mechanisms that are used for the primary channels.
Exploited in the wild: 2 CVEs
Vulnerabilities caused by CWE-420 that attackers have used, from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, newest first.
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