COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATIONDraft

CWE-447

Unimplemented or Unsupported Feature in UI

A UI function for a security feature appears to be supported and gives feedback to the user that suggests that it is supported, but the underlying functionality is not implemented.

Abstraction

Base

Structure

Simple

Likelihood of Exploit

Medium

Understand the problem

What is the problem?

A UI function for a security feature appears to be supported and gives feedback to the user that suggests that it is supported, but the underlying functionality is not implemented.

Root cause

How and when does the problem arise?

Lifecycle phase

Implementation

Risk

What does successful exploitation lead to?

Varies by ContextUnexpected State

Affected security scopes: Other

Defence

How is it prevented and fixed?

Testing

Testing and verification approach

Detail
Perform functionality testing before deploying the application.