CWE-693
Overview
- CWE ID
- 693
- CWE Name
- Protection Mechanism Failure
- CWE Abstraction
- Pillar
- CWE structure
- Simple
- CWE Status
- Draft
Description
The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product.
Extended Description
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,
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