Weakness · High
CWE-655: Insufficient Psychological Acceptability
What it is
The product has a protection mechanism that is too difficult or inconvenient to use, encouraging non-malicious users to disable or bypass the mechanism, whether by accident or on purpose.
- Severity (our rating)
- High
- Likelihood of exploit
- Not rated by MITRE
- Introduced during
- Architecture and Design
- Exploited in the wild
- No CVE in CISA's catalog
What an attacker can do
- Bypass Protection Mechanism (Access Control)
How to prevent it
Testing
- Where possible, perform human factors and usability studies to identify where your product's security mechanisms are difficult to use, and why.
Architecture and Design
- Make the security mechanism as seamless as possible, while also providing the user with sufficient details when a security decision produces unexpected results.
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