Variant weakness
Draft
CWE-5: J2EE Misconfiguration: Data Transmission Without Encryption
Information sent over a network can be compromised while in transit. An attacker may be able to read or modify the contents if the data are sent in plaintext or are weakly encrypted.
2
Recorded CVEs
With this primary weakness
0
KEVs
In the CISA KEV catalog
Not rated
Likelihood of exploit
Per MITRE
Variant
Abstraction
MITRE classification
Overview
CWE-5 (J2EE Misconfiguration: Data Transmission Without Encryption) is a variant-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.