SFP Secondary Cluster: Missing Authentication
A category in the Common Weakness Enumeration published by The MITRE Corporation.
Summary
Categories in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) group entries based on some common characteristic or attribute.
This category identifies Software Fault Patterns (SFPs) within the Missing Authentication cluster.
Weaknesses
The product does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources.
When setting a new password for a user, the product does not require knowledge of the original password, or using another form of authentication.
Concepts
CWE identifiers in this view are associated with clusters of Software Fault Patterns (SFPs).
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