COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATIONDraft

CWE-419

Unprotected Primary Channel

The product uses a primary channel for administration or restricted functionality, but it does not properly protect the channel.

Abstraction

Base

Structure

Simple

Likelihood of Exploit

Medium

Understand the problem

What is the problem?

The product uses a primary channel for administration or restricted functionality, but it does not properly protect the channel.

Root cause

How and when does the problem arise?

Lifecycle phase

Architecture and Design

OMISSION: This weakness is caused by missing a security tactic during the architecture and design phase.

Lifecycle phase

Implementation

Risk

What does successful exploitation lead to?

Gain Privileges or Assume IdentityBypass Protection Mechanism

Affected security scopes: Access Control

Defence

How is it prevented and fixed?

Architecture and Design

Architecture and design approach

Detail
Do not expose administrative functionnality on the user UI.

Architecture and Design

Architecture and design approach

Detail
Protect the administrative/restricted functionality with a strong authentication mechanism.