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CWE-420: Unprotected Alternate Channel

Base Draft

The product protects a primary channel, but it does not use the same level of protection for an alternate channel.

How to prevent it (1 mitigation)
  1. Architecture and Design

    Identify all alternate channels and use the same protection mechanisms that are used for the primary channels.

Source: MITRE CWE-420

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  • Medium 5.4

    Kiteworks Core Unprotected Alternate Channel

    Kiteworks Core did not apply its gateway-level API security controls to every request authenticated through the platform's central authentication service. An authenticated user could reach REST API functionality over a request path on which those controls, in…

  • Medium 5.3

    Tor before 0.4.9.9 was prone to a compression bomb bypass where an attacker could concatenate many gzip or zlib sub-str…

  • Medium 5.3

    BIG-IP httpd access control vulnerability

    When configured, IP-based access restrictions for httpd do not cover all endpoints, which may allow connections from blocked addresses.  Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

  • Medium 6.5

    An issue was discovered in Prosody before 0.12.6 and 1.0.0 through 13.0.0 before 13.0.5, when mod_proxy65 is enabled. B…

  • Medium 4.3
    CVE-2026-25916 Public exploit

    Roundcube Webmail before 1.5.13 and 1.6 before 1.6.13, when "Block remote images" is used, does not block SVG feImage.

  • Medium 5.0

    In Oxide control plane 15 through 17 before 17.1, API tokens can be renewed past their expiration date.

  • Medium 4.9

    Slack Nebula may accept arbitrary source IP addresses

    Slack Nebula before 1.9.7 mishandles CIDR in some configurations and thus accepts arbitrary source IP addresses within the Nebula network.

  • Medium 4.7

    Unprotected alternative channel of return branch target prediction in some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authorized …

  • Medium 6.4

    A connection hijacking vulnerability exists in some Huawei home routers. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability …

  • Medium 5.3

    LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin <= 4.2.6.8.1 - Unauthenticated Bypass to User Registration

    The LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthenticated bypass to user registration in versions up to, and including, 4.2.6.8.1. This is due to missing checks in the 'check_validate_fields' function in the checkout. This ma…

  • Medium 5.3

    LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin <= 4.2.6.5 - Unauthenticated Bypass to User Registration

    The LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to bypass to user registration in versions up to, and including, 4.2.6.5. This is due to missing checks in the 'create_account' function in the checkout. This makes it possible for unaut…

  • Medium 4.9

    GateManager debug interface is included in non-debug builds

    Unprotected Alternate Channel vulnerability in debug console of GateManager allows system administrator to obtain sensitive information.

  • Medium 6.8

    moby/moby's dockerd daemon encrypted overlay network with a single endpoint is unauthenticated

    Moby) is an open source container framework developed by Docker Inc. that is distributed as Docker, Mirantis Container Runtime, and various other downstream projects/products. The Moby daemon component (`dockerd`), which is developed as moby/moby is commonly …

  • Medium 4.9

    GateManager debug interface is included in production builds

    Unprotected Alternate Channel vulnerability in debug console of GateManager allows system administrator to obtain sensitive information. This issue affects: GateManager all versions prior to 9.7.

  • Medium 5.4
    CVE-2020-8558 Public exploit

    Kubernetes node setting allows for neighboring hosts to bypass localhost boundary

    The Kubelet and kube-proxy components in versions 1.1.0-1.16.10, 1.17.0-1.17.6, and 1.18.0-1.18.3 were found to contain a security issue which allows adjacent hosts to reach TCP and UDP services bound to 127.0.0.1 running on the node or in the node's network …