CWE-784 5 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-784: Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking in a Security Decision

Overview

CWE-784 (Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking in a Security Decision) 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 a protection mechanism that relies on the existence or values of a cookie, but it does not properly ensure that the cookie is valid for the associated user.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language Not Language-Specific Undetermined
technology Web Based Often
technology Web Server 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-2026-45055 2026-05-13 CubeCart is an ecommerce software solution. Prior to 6.7.2, CubeCart 6.6.x – 6.7.1 builds CC_STORE_URL directly from the Host request header at bootstrap, with no allowlist. The constant is embedded v…
CVE-2024-9820 2024-10-15 The WP 2FA with Telegram plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Two-Factor Authentication Bypass in versions up to, and including, 3.0. This is due to the two-factor code being stored in a cookie, whic…
CVE-2023-3050 2023-06-13 Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking in a Security Decision vulnerability in TMT Lockcell allows Privilege Abuse, Authentication Bypass. This issue affects Lockcell: before 1…
CVE-2022-3083 2023-02-01 All versions of Landis+Gyr E850 (ZMQ200) are vulnerable to CWE-784: Reliance on Cookies Without Validation and Integrity. The device's web application navigation depends on the value of the session co…
CVE-2020-8184 2020-06-19 A reliance on cookies without validation/integrity check security vulnerability exists in rack < 2.2.3, rack < 2.1.4 that makes it is possible for an attacker to forge a secure or host-only cookie pre…

Content submission

Name
CWE Content Team
Organization
MITRE
Date
2009-07-16
Version
1.5

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2009-10-29 CWE Content Team 1.6 updated Relationships
2010-02-16 CWE Content Team 1.8 updated Demonstrative_Examples, References, Relationships
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences
2017-01-19 CWE Content Team 2.10 updated Relationships
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Modes_of_Introduction, References, Relationships
2018-03-27 CWE Content Team 3.1 updated References
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Applicable_Platforms, Relationships
2021-10-28 CWE Content Team 4.6 updated Relationships
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Description
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Modes_of_Introduction, Relationships, Time_of_Introduction
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Applicable_Platforms, Relationships, Weakness_Ordinalities
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