COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATIONDraft

CWE-424

Improper Protection of Alternate Path

The product does not sufficiently protect all possible paths that a user can take to access restricted functionality or resources.

Abstraction

Class

Structure

Simple

Likelihood of Exploit

Medium

Understand the problem

What is the problem?

The product does not sufficiently protect all possible paths that a user can take to access restricted functionality or resources.

Root cause

How and when does the problem arise?

Lifecycle phase

Architecture and Design

Risk

What does successful exploitation lead to?

Bypass Protection MechanismGain Privileges or Assume Identity

Affected security scopes: Access Control

Defence

How is it prevented and fixed?

Architecture and Design

Architecture and design approach

Detail
Deploy different layers of protection to implement security in depth.