CWE-693

Protection Mechanism Failure
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The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product.

Status
draft
Abstraction
pillar
Not Technology-Specific ICS/OT

This weakness covers three distinct situations. A 'missing' protection mechanism occurs when the application does not define any mechanism against a certain class of attack. An 'insufficient' protection mechanism might provide some defenses - for example, against the most common attacks - but it does not protect against everything that is intended. Finally, an 'ignored' mechanism occurs when a mechanism is available and in active use within the product, but the developer has not applied it in some code path.

Common Consequences

access control
Impacts
bypass protection mechanism

Potential Mitigations