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Status: Draft Weakness ID: 693 (Weakness Class)Description Summary The product does not use 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, 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. Other Notes This is a fairly high-level concept, although it covers a number of weaknesses in CWE that were more scattered throughout the natural hierarchy before Draft 9 was released. Research Gaps The concept of protection mechanisms is well established, but protection mechanism failures have not been studied comprehensively. It is suspected that protection mechanisms can have significantly different types of weaknesses than the weaknesses that they are intended to prevent. Relationships
Applicable Platforms Languages All Time of Introduction  Architecture and Design Implementation OperationContent History Modifications Eric Dalci. Cigital. 2008-07-01. (External) updated Time_of_Introduction CWE Content Team. MITRE. 2008-09-08. (Internal) updated Description, Relationships, Other_Notes |
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