CWE-360 Detail

CWE-360

Name

Trust of System Event Data

Likelihood

High

Status

Incomplete

Published

2006-07-19
00h00 +00:00

Modified

2023-10-26
00h00 +00:00

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Name: Trust of System Event Data

Security based on event locations are insecure and can be spoofed.

CWE Description

Events are a messaging system which may provide control data to programs listening for events. Events often do not have any type of authentication framework to allow them to be verified from a trusted source. Any application, in Windows, on a given desktop can send a message to any window on the same desktop. There is no authentication framework for these messages. Therefore, any message can be used to manipulate any process on the desktop if the process does not check the validity and safeness of those messages.

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Modes Of Introduction

Architecture and Design
Implementation

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Class: Not Language-Specific (Undetermined)

Common Consequences

Scope	Impact	Likelihood
Integrity Confidentiality Availability Access Control	Gain Privileges or Assume Identity, Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands Note: If one trusts the system-event information and executes commands based on it, one could potentially take actions based on a spoofed identity.

Observed Examples

References	Description
CVE-2004-0213	Attacker uses Shatter attack to bypass GUI-enforced protection for CVE-2003-0908.

Potential Mitigations

Phases : Architecture and Design
Never trust or rely any of the information in an Event for security.

Vulnerability Mapping Notes

Justification : This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.
Comment : Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

References

REF-18

The CLASP Application Security Process
Secure Software, Inc..
https://cwe.mitre.org/documents/sources/TheCLASPApplicationSecurityProcess.pdf

Submission

Name	Organization	Date	Date release	Version
CLASP		2006-07-19 +00:00	2006-07-19 +00:00	Draft 3

Modifications

Name	Organization	Date	Comment
Eric Dalci	Cigital	2008-07-01 +00:00	updated Time_of_Introduction
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2008-09-08 +00:00	updated Common_Consequences, Relationships, Other_Notes, Taxonomy_Mappings
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2010-02-16 +00:00	updated Description, Other_Notes
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2011-06-01 +00:00	updated Common_Consequences
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2012-05-11 +00:00	updated Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2012-10-30 +00:00	updated Demonstrative_Examples
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2013-02-21 +00:00	updated Potential_Mitigations
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2014-07-30 +00:00	updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2017-11-08 +00:00	updated Applicable_Platforms
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2020-02-24 +00:00	updated References, Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-04-27 +00:00	updated Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-06-29 +00:00	updated Mapping_Notes
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-10-26 +00:00	updated Observed_Examples