Base weakness
Draft
CWE-420: Unprotected Alternate Channel
The product protects a primary channel, but it does not use the same level of protection for an alternate channel.
36
Recorded CVEs
With this primary weakness
2
KEVs
In the CISA KEV catalog
Not rated
Likelihood of exploit
Per MITRE
Base
Abstraction
MITRE classification
Overview
CWE-420 (Unprotected Alternate Channel) is a base-level software weakness catalogued by MITRE in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE). It describes a recurring type of mistake that can lead to exploitable security vulnerabilities.