CWE-353
Overview
- CWE ID
- 353
- CWE Name
- Missing Support for Integrity Check
- CWE Abstraction
- Base
- CWE structure
- Simple
- CWE Status
- Draft
Description
The software uses a transmission protocol that does not include a mechanism for verifying the integrity of the data during transmission, such as a checksum.
Extended Description
If integrity check values or "checksums" are omitted from a protocol, there is no way of determining if data has been corrupted in transmission. The lack of checksum functionality in a protocol removes the first application-level check of data that can be