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CWE-924 (Improper Enforcement of Message Integrity During Transmission in a Communication Channel) weakness overview with consequences, detection methods,…
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CWE-924: Improper Enforcement of Message Integrity During Transmission in a Communication Channel
Improper Enforcement of Message Integrity During Transmission in a Communication Channel represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.
Executive Impact
- Integrity,Confidentiality: Gain Privileges or Assume Identity: If an attackers can spoof the endpoint, the attacker gains all the privileges that were intended for the original endpoint.
Developer Pattern
CWE-924 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-924, 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-924: Improper Enforcement of Message Integrity During Transmission in a Communication Channel
The product establishes a communication channel with an endpoint and receives a message from that endpoint, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the message was not modified during transmission.
Attackers might be able to modify the message and spoof the endpoint by interfering with the data as it crosses the network or by redirecting the connection to a system under their control.
Developer And Remediation Guidance
How teams prevent and detect this weakness
Causes
- Missing validation
- Unsafe defaults
- Insufficient authorization or memory-safety invariant
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
Mappings
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ATT&CK Relevance
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