CWE - CWE-955: SFP Secondary Cluster: Unrestricted Authentication (4.15)

Category ID: 955

Vulnerability Mapping: PROHIBITEDThis CWE ID must not be used to map to real-world vulnerabilities

Summary

This category identifies Software Fault Patterns (SFPs) within the Unrestricted Authentication cluster (SFP34).

Membership

Nature	Type	ID	Name
MemberOf	Category - a CWE entry that contains a set of other entries that share a common characteristic.	898	SFP Primary Cluster: Authentication
HasMember	Base - a weakness that is still mostly independent of a resource or technology, but with sufficient details to provide specific methods for detection and prevention. Base level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 2 or 3 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, technology, language, and resource.	307	Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

Vulnerability Mapping Notes

Usage: PROHIBITED

(this CWE ID must not be used to map to real-world vulnerabilities)

Reason: Category

Rationale:

This entry is a Category. Using categories for mapping has been discouraged since 2019. Categories are informal organizational groupings of weaknesses that can help CWE users with data aggregation, navigation, and browsing. However, they are not weaknesses in themselves.

Comments:

See member weaknesses of this category.

Content History

Submissions
Submission Date	Submitter	Organization
2014-07-29 (CWE 2.8, 2014-07-31)	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2014-07-29 (CWE 2.8, 2014-07-31)
Modifications
Modification Date	Modifier	Organization
2020-02-24	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2020-02-24	updated Description
2023-04-27	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2023-04-27	updated Mapping_Notes
2023-06-29	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2023-06-29	updated Mapping_Notes

Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE CATEGORY: SFP Secondary Cluster: Unrestricted Authentication


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