CWE-1320: Improper Protection for Outbound Error Messages… | Glexia
CWE-1320 (Improper Protection for Outbound Error Messages and Alert Signals) weakness overview with consequences, detection methods, mitigations, related CVEs and…
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CWE-1320: Improper Protection for Outbound Error Messages and Alert Signals
Improper Protection for Outbound Error Messages and Alert Signals represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.
Executive Impact
- Availability: DoS: Instability,DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart,Reduce Reliability,Unexpected State
Developer Pattern
CWE-1320 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-1320, 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-1320: Improper Protection for Outbound Error Messages and Alert Signals
Untrusted agents can disable alerts about signal conditions exceeding limits or the response mechanism that handles such alerts.
Developer And Remediation Guidance
How teams prevent and detect this weakness
Causes
- Reprogramming the state of the GPIO pin allows malicious software to trigger spurious alerts or to set the alert pin to a zero value so that thermal sensor alerts are not received by the processor.
Remediation
- Architecture and Design: Alert signals generated by critical events should be protected from access by untrusted agents. Only hardware or trusted firmware modules should be able to alter the alert configuration.
Detection
- Code review
- SAST
- DAST
- Focused regression tests
Mappings
Related CVEs, CWEs, and ATT&CK context
Related CWEs
ATT&CK Relevance
ATT&CK relevance is shown only when reviewed or responsibly inferred.