CWE-360

Trust of System Event Data
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Security based on event locations are insecure and can be spoofed.

Status
incomplete
Abstraction
base
Likelihood
high

Events are a messaging system which may provide control data to programs listening for events. Events often do not have any type of authentication framework to allow them to be verified from a trusted source. Any application, in Windows, on a given desktop can send a message to any window on the same desktop. There is no authentication framework for these messages. Therefore, any message can be used to manipulate any process on the desktop if the process does not check the validity and safeness of those messages.

Common Consequences

integrity confidentiality availability access control
Impacts
gain privileges or assume identity execute unauthorized code or commands

Potential Mitigations

Phases:
architecture and design
Descriptions:
• Never trust or rely any of the information in an Event for security.