Base weakness
Incomplete
CWE-565: Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking
The product relies on the existence or values of cookies when performing security-critical operations, but it does not properly ensure that the setting is valid for the associated user.
31
Recorded CVEs
With this primary weakness
1
KEVs
In the CISA KEV catalog
Not rated
Likelihood of exploit
Per MITRE
Base
Abstraction
MITRE classification
Overview
CWE-565 (Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking) 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.