CWE-655
Insufficient Psychological Acceptability
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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.
Status
draft
Abstraction
class
Affected Platforms
Technical Details
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Common Consequences
access control
Impacts
bypass protection mechanism
Potential Mitigations
Phases:
testing
architecture and design
Descriptions:
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Where possible, perform human factors and usability studies to identify where your product's security mechanisms are difficult to use, and why.
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Make the security mechanism as seamless as possible, while also providing the user with sufficient details when a security decision produces unexpected results.