CWE-446 3 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-446: UI Discrepancy for Security Feature

Overview

CWE-446 (UI Discrepancy for Security Feature) 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 user interface does not correctly enable or configure a security feature, but the interface provides feedback that causes the user to believe that the feature is in a secure state.

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-2025-8353 2025-07-30 UI synchronization issue in the Just-in-Time (JIT) access request approval interface in Devolutions Server 2025.2.4.0 and earlier allows a remote authenticated attacker to gain unauthorized access to …
CVE-2025-52983 2025-07-11 A UI Discrepancy for Security Feature vulnerability in the UI of Juniper Networks Junos OS on VM Host systems allows a network-based, unauthenticated attacker to access the device. On VM Host Rout…
CVE-2023-1768 2023-04-04 Inappropriate error handling in Tribe29 Checkmk <= 2.1.0p25, <= 2.0.0p34, <= 2.2.0b3 (beta), and all versions of Checkmk 1.6.0 causes the symmetric encryption of agent data to fail silently and transm…

Previous names

  • User Interface Discrepancy for Security Feature (2008-01-30)
  • User Interface Discrepancy for Security Feature (2008-04-11)

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 Time_of_Introduction
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Relationships, Other_Notes, Taxonomy_Mappings, Type
2008-10-14 CWE Content Team 1.0.1 updated Description, Maintenance_Notes, Other_Notes
2011-03-29 CWE Content Team 1.12 updated Other_Notes, Relationship_Notes
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences
2011-06-27 CWE Content Team 2.0 updated Common_Consequences
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Relationships
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships
2017-01-19 CWE Content Team 2.10 updated Relationships
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Applicable_Platforms
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Relationships, Type
2021-03-15 CWE Content Team 4.4 updated Maintenance_Notes, Relationship_Notes, Weakness_Ordinalities
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
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