CWE-649 6 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-649: Reliance on Obfuscation or Encryption of Security-Relevant Inputs without Integrity Checking

Overview

CWE-649 (Reliance on Obfuscation or Encryption of Security-Relevant Inputs without Integrity Checking) 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 uses obfuscation or encryption of inputs that should not be mutable by an external actor, but the product does not use integrity checks to detect if those inputs have been modified.

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-2025-41351 2026-01-28 Vulnerability that allows a Padding Oracle Attack to be performed on the Funambol v30.0.0.20 cloud server. The thumbnail display URL allows an attacker to decrypt and encrypt the parameters used by th…
CVE-2025-5323 2025-05-29 A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in fossasia open-event-server 1.19.1. This issue affects the function send_email_change_user_email of the file /fossasia/open-event…
CVE-2024-10772 2024-12-06 Since the firmware update is not validated, an attacker can install modified firmware on the device. This has a high impact on the availabilty, integrity and confidentiality up to the complete comprom…
CVE-2024-36279 2024-06-17 Reliance on obfuscation or encryption of security-relevant inputs without integrity checking issue exists in "FreeFrom - the nostr client" App versions prior to 1.3.5 for Android and iOS. If this vuln…
CVE-2010-3300 2021-06-22 It was found that all OWASP ESAPI for Java up to version 2.0 RC2 are vulnerable to padding oracle attacks.
CVE-2019-3730 2019-09-30 RSA BSAFE Micro Edition Suite versions prior to 4.1.6.3 (in 4.1.x) and prior to 4.4 (in 4.2.x and 4.3.x), are vulnerable to an Information Exposure Through an Error Message vulnerability, also known a…

Previous names

  • Relying on Obfuscation or Encryption with no Integrity Checking to Protect User Controllable Parameters that are Used to Determine User or System State (2008-04-11)

Content submission

Name
Evgeny Lebanidze
Organization
Cigital
Date
2008-01-30
Version
Draft 8

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Common_Consequences, Relationships, Observed_Example
2008-10-14 CWE Content Team 1.0.1 updated Description
2009-10-29 CWE Content Team 1.6 updated Common_Consequences
2010-12-13 CWE Content Team 1.11 updated Common_Consequences, Description, Enabling_Factors_for_Exploitation, Observed_Examples
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 Related_Attack_Patterns, Relationships
2012-10-30 CWE Content Team 2.3 updated Potential_Mitigations
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Applicable_Platforms, Description, Enabling_Factors_for_Exploitation, Modes_of_Introduction, Observed_Examples, Relationships
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Observed_Examples, Relationships
2020-12-10 CWE Content Team 4.3 updated Description
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Common_Consequences, Description
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Weakness_Ordinalities
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