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CWE-940Improper Verification of Source of a Communication Channel
Category: other
Description
The product establishes a communication channel to handle an incoming request that has been initiated by an actor, but it does not properly verify that the request is coming from the expected origin.
When an attacker can successfully establish a communication channel from an untrusted origin, the attacker may be able to gain privileges and access unexpected functionality.
Common consequences· 1
- Access Control / Other — Gain Privileges or Assume Identity, Varies by Context, Bypass Protection MechanismAn attacker can access any functionality that is inadvertently accessible to the source.
Potential mitigations· 1
- [Architecture and Design]
Related CAPEC attack patterns· 4
References
Exploits (incoming)4
| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| AttackPattern | Traffic Injectioncapec-594 | 100% | live |
| AttackPattern | WebView Injectioncapec-500 | 100% | live |
| AttackPattern | Connection Resetcapec-595 | 100% | live |
| AttackPattern | TCP RST Injectioncapec-596 | 100% | live |
(incoming)8
| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vulnerability | CVE-2025-23222cve-2025-23222 | 0% | live |
| Vulnerability | CVE-2025-59159cve-2025-59159 | 0% | live |
| Vulnerability | Motex LANSCOPE Endpoint Manager Improper Verification of Source of a Communication Channel Vulnerabilitycve-2025-61932 | 0% | live |
| Vulnerability | CVE-2026-33875cve-2026-33875 | 0% | live |
| Vulnerability | CVE-2026-35643cve-2026-35643 | 0% | live |
| Vulnerability | CVE-2026-40434cve-2026-40434 | 0% | live |
| KEVEntry | Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Reflected Amplification Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilitykev-cve-2022-0028 | 0% | live |
| KEVEntry | Motex LANSCOPE Endpoint Manager Improper Verification of Source of a Communication Channel Vulnerabilitykev-cve-2025-61932 | 0% | live |
Related by meaning· 6
Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.