Weakness · High
CWE-424: Improper Protection of Alternate Path
What it is
The product does not sufficiently protect all possible paths that a user can take to access restricted functionality or resources.
- Severity (our rating)
- High
- Likelihood of exploit
- Not rated by MITRE
- Introduced during
- Architecture and Design
- Exploited in the wild
- 1 known exploited CVE
What an attacker can do
- Bypass Protection Mechanism (Access Control)
- Gain Privileges or Assume Identity (Access Control)
How to prevent it
Architecture and Design
- Deploy different layers of protection to implement security in depth.
Exploited in the wild: 1 CVE
Vulnerabilities caused by CWE-424 that attackers have used, from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, newest first.
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