CWE-417 15 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-417: Communication Channel Errors

Overview

CWE-417 (Communication Channel Errors) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.

Security impact
Security impact: Depends on product and context; use CVE records, severity scores, and MITRE guidance to prioritize.

Description

Weaknesses in this category are related to improper handling of communication channels and access paths. These weaknesses include problems in creating, managing, or removing alternate channels and alternate paths. Some of these can overlap virtual file problems and are commonly used in "bypass" attacks, such as those that exploit authentication errors.

Related CVEs in this database

These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.

CVE Published Summary
CVE-2019-9855 2019-09-06 LibreOffice is typically bundled with LibreLogo, a programmable turtle vector graphics script, which can execute arbitrary python commands contained with the document it is launched from. LibreOffice …
CVE-2019-14318 2019-07-30 Crypto++ 8.3.0 and earlier contains a timing side channel in ECDSA signature generation. This allows a local or remote attacker, able to measure the duration of hundreds to thousands of signing operat…
CVE-2018-13906 2019-06-14 The HMAC authenticating the message from QSEE is vulnerable to timing side channel analysis leading to potentially forged application message in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connect…
CVE-2018-14900 2018-08-30 On EPSON WF-2750 printers with firmware JP02I2, there is no filtering of print jobs. Remote attackers can send print jobs directly to the printer via TCP port 9100.
CVE-2018-6556 2018-08-10 lxc-user-nic when asked to delete a network interface will unconditionally open a user provided path. This code path may be used by an unprivileged user to check for the existence of a path which they…
CVE-2018-8929 2018-07-06 Improper restriction of communication channel to intended endpoints vulnerability in HTTP daemon in Synology SSL VPN Client before 1.2.4-0224 allows remote attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle attac…
CVE-2017-7760 2018-06-11 The Mozilla Windows updater modifies some files to be updated by reading the original file and applying changes to it. The location of the original file can be altered by a malicious user by passing a…
CVE-2018-5254 2018-04-12 Arista EOS before 4.20.2F allows remote BGP peers to cause a denial of service (Rib agent restart) via a malformed path attribute in an UPDATE message.
CVE-2017-3969 2018-04-04 Abuse of communication channels vulnerability in the server in McAfee Network Security Management (NSM) before 8.2.7.42.2 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to decrypt messages via an inadequate imple…
CVE-2017-8822 2017-12-03 In Tor before 0.2.5.16, 0.2.6 through 0.2.8 before 0.2.8.17, 0.2.9 before 0.2.9.14, 0.3.0 before 0.3.0.13, and 0.3.1 before 0.3.1.9, relays (that have incompletely downloaded descriptors) can pick the…
CVE-2017-2712 2017-11-22 S3300 V100R006C05 have an Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) flapping vulnerability due to the lack of type-length-value (TLV) consistency check. An attacker may craft malformed packets and send them to…
CVE-2017-1000197 2017-11-17 October CMS build 412 is vulnerable to file path modification in asset move functionality resulting in creating creating malicious files on the server.
CVE-2017-7480 2017-07-21 rkhunter versions before 1.4.4 are vulnerable to file download over insecure channel when doing mirror update resulting into potential remote code execution.
CVE-2017-6520 2017-05-01 The Multicast DNS (mDNS) responder used in BOSE Soundtouch 30 inadvertently responds to IPv4 unicast queries with source addresses that are not link-local, which allows remote attackers to cause a den…
CVE-2016-9879 2017-01-06 An issue was discovered in Pivotal Spring Security before 3.2.10, 4.1.x before 4.1.4, and 4.2.x before 4.2.1. Spring Security does not consider URL path parameters when processing security constraints…

Previous names

  • Channel and Path Errors (2020-02-24)

Content submission

Name
PLOVER
Date
2006-07-19
Version
Draft 3

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Relationships, Other_Notes, Taxonomy_Mappings
2009-07-27 CWE Content Team 1.5 updated Other_Notes, Relationship_Notes
2015-12-07 CWE Content Team 2.9 updated Relationships
2017-01-19 CWE Content Team 2.10 updated Relationships
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Applicable_Platforms, Maintenance_Notes, Relationships
2019-06-20 CWE Content Team 3.3 updated Relationships
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Description, Maintenance_Notes, Name, Relationship_Notes, Relationships
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Mapping_Notes, Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
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