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CWE-941: Incorrectly Specified Destination in a… | Glexia

CWE-941 (Incorrectly Specified Destination in a Communication Channel) weakness overview with consequences, detection methods, mitigations, related CVEs and MITRE…

Release 4.20weaknessIncomplete
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Glexia's Take · Automated analysis

CWE-941: Incorrectly Specified Destination in a Communication Channel

Incorrectly Specified Destination in a Communication Channel represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.

Executive Impact

  • Access Control,Other: Gain Privileges or Assume Identity,Varies by Context,Bypass Protection Mechanism: An attacker can access any functionality that is inadvertently accessible to the source.

Developer Pattern

CWE-941 is the kind of defect developers can usually prevent with explicit validation, safer framework defaults, and tests that exercise hostile input or unsafe state transitions.

Automation confidence

high confidence from CWE-941, 4.20.

Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.

Official CWE Definition

CWE-941: Incorrectly Specified Destination in a Communication Channel

The product creates a communication channel to initiate an outgoing request to an actor, but it does not correctly specify the intended destination for that actor.

Type
weakness
Abstraction
Base
Status
Incomplete
Source
MITRE CWE definition

Developer And Remediation Guidance

How teams prevent and detect this weakness

Causes

  • This code listens on a port for DNS requests and sends the result to the requesting address. This code sends a DNS record to a requesting IP address. UDP allows the source IP address to be easily changed ('spoofed'), thus allowing an attacker to redirect responses to a target, which may be then be overwhelmed by the network traffic.

Remediation

  • Use safe APIs
  • Centralize the control
  • Add regression tests
  • Review logs and telemetry for attempted abuse

Detection

  • Code review
  • SAST
  • DAST
  • Focused regression tests

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