CWE-420 37 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-420: Unprotected Alternate Channel

Overview

CWE-420 (Unprotected Alternate Channel) 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

The product protects a primary channel, but it does not use the same level of protection for an alternate channel.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language Not Language-Specific Undetermined

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-2026-40435 2026-05-13 When configured, IP-based access restrictions for httpd do not cover all endpoints, which may allow connections from blocked addresses.  Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Sup…
CVE-2026-43505 2026-05-01 An issue was discovered in Prosody before 0.12.6 and 1.0.0 through 13.0.0 before 13.0.5, when mod_proxy65 is enabled. Because mod_proxy65 mishandles access control in the activation scenario, relaying…
CVE-2026-40217 2026-04-10 LiteLLM through 2026-04-08 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via bytecode rewriting at the /guardrails/test_custom_code URI.
CVE-2026-35388 2026-04-02 OpenSSH before 10.3 omits connection multiplexing confirmation for proxy-mode multiplexing sessions.
CVE-2026-25916 2026-02-09 Roundcube Webmail before 1.5.13 and 1.6 before 1.6.13, when "Block remote images" is used, does not block SVG feImage.
CVE-2025-41727 2026-01-27 A local low privileged attacker can bypass the authentication of the Device Manager user interface, allowing them to perform privileged operations and gain administrator access.
CVE-2025-67303 2026-01-05 An issue in ComfyUI-Manager prior to version 3.38 allowed remote attackers to potentially manipulate its configuration and critical data. This was due to the application storing its files in an insuff…
CVE-2025-62001 2025-12-18 BullWall Ransomware Containment supports configurable file and directory exclusions such as '$RECYCLE.BIN' to balance monitoring scope and performance. Certain exclusion patterns could allow an authen…
CVE-2025-66432 2025-11-30 In Oxide control plane 15 through 17 before 17.1, API tokens can be renewed past their expiration date.
CVE-2025-13315 2025-11-19 Twonky Server 8.5.2 on Linux and Windows is vulnerable to an access control flaw. An unauthenticated attacker can bypass web service API authentication controls to leak a log file and read the adminis…
CVE-2025-56558 2025-10-29 The Dyson MQTT server (2022 and possibly later) allows publications and subscriptions by a client that has the correct values of AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SESSION_TOKEN, and device…
CVE-2025-62820 2025-10-23 Slack Nebula before 1.9.7 mishandles CIDR in some configurations and thus accepts arbitrary source IP addresses within the Nebula network.
CVE-2025-53967 2025-10-08 Framelink Figma MCP Server before 0.6.3 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary operating system commands via a crafted HTTP POST request with shell metacharacters in input that…
CVE-2025-8557 2025-09-11 An internal product security audit of Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator (LXCO) discovered the below vulnerability: An attacker with access to a device on the local Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator (LXCO) netw…
CVE-2025-59033 2025-09-08 The Microsoft vulnerable driver block list is implemented as Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC) policy. Entries that specify only the to-be-signed (TBS) part of the code signer certificate ar…
CVE-2025-54351 2025-08-03 In iperf before 3.19.1, net.c has a buffer overflow when --skip-rx-copy is used (for MSG_TRUNC in recv).
CVE-2025-54309 2025-07-18 CrushFTP 10 before 10.8.5 and 11 before 11.3.4_23, when the DMZ proxy feature is not used, mishandles AS2 validation and consequently allows remote attackers to obtain admin access via HTTPS, as explo…
CVE-2025-52968 2025-06-23 xdg-open in xdg-utils through 1.2.1 can send requests containing SameSite=Strict cookies, which can facilitate CSRF. (For example, xdg-open could be modified to, by default, associate x-scheme-handler…
CVE-2025-52921 2025-06-23 In Innoshop through 0.4.1, an authenticated attacker could exploit the File Manager functions in the admin panel to achieve code execution on the server, by uploading a crafted file and then renaming …
CVE-2025-1095 2025-04-08 IBM Personal Communications v14 and v15 include a Windows service that is vulnerable to local privilege escalation (LPE). The vulnerability allows any interactively logged in users on the target compu…

Content submission

Name
PLOVER
Date
2006-07-19
Version
Draft 3

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2008-07-01 Eric Dalci 1.0 updated Potential_Mitigations, Time_of_Introduction
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Relationships, Relationship_Notes, Taxonomy_Mappings
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Relationships
2012-10-30 CWE Content Team 2.3 updated Potential_Mitigations
2013-07-17 CWE Content Team 2.5 updated Applicable_Platforms, Potential_Mitigations, Relationships
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Modes_of_Introduction, Relationships
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Relationships
2020-08-20 CWE Content Team 4.2 updated Relationships
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Description
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
2023-10-26 CWE Content Team 4.13 updated Observed_Examples
2024-02-29 CWE Content Team 4.14 updated Demonstrative_Examples
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Weakness_Ordinalities
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