Pillar weakness
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CWE-693: Protection Mechanism Failure
The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product.
446
Recorded CVEs
With this primary weakness
13
KEVs
In the CISA KEV catalog
Not rated
Likelihood of exploit
Per MITRE
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Abstraction
MITRE classification
Overview
This weakness covers three distinct situations. A "missing" protection mechanism occurs when the application does not define any mechanism against a certain class of attack. An "insufficient" protection mechanism might provide some defenses - for example, against the most common attacks - but it does not protect against everything that is intended. Finally, an "ignored" mechanism occurs when a mechanism is available and in active use within the product, but the developer has not applied it in some code path.