CWE-291 Details

CWE-291

Reliance on IP Address for Authentication
Hoch
Incomplete
2006-07-19
00h00 +00:00
2025-12-11
00h00 +00:00
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Name: Reliance on IP Address for Authentication

The product uses an IP address for authentication.

CWE-Beschreibung

IP addresses can be easily spoofed. Attackers can forge the source IP address of the packets they send, but response packets will return to the forged IP address. To see the response packets, the attacker has to sniff the traffic between the victim machine and the forged IP address. In order to accomplish the required sniffing, attackers typically attempt to locate themselves on the same subnet as the victim machine. Attackers may be able to circumvent this requirement by using source routing, but source routing is disabled across much of the Internet today. In summary, IP address verification can be a useful part of an authentication scheme, but it should not be the single factor required for authentication.

Allgemeine Informationen

Einführungsmodi

Architecture and Design : COMMISSION: This weakness refers to an incorrect design related to an architectural security tactic.

Anwendbare Plattformen

Sprache

Class: Not Language-Specific (Undetermined)

Häufige Konsequenzen

Bereich Auswirkung Wahrscheinlichkeit
Access Control
Non-Repudiation		Hide Activities, Gain Privileges or Assume Identity

Note: Malicious users can fake authentication information, impersonating any IP address.

Beobachtete Beispiele

Referenzen Beschreibung

CVE-2022-30319

S-bus functionality in a home automation product performs access control using an IP allowlist, which can be bypassed by a forged IP address.

Mögliche Gegenmaßnahmen

Phases : Architecture and Design
Use other means of identity verification that cannot be simply spoofed. Possibilities include a username/password or certificate.

Hinweise zur Schwachstellen-Zuordnung

Begründung : This CWE entry is at the Variant level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.
Kommentar : 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.

Verwandte Angriffsmuster

CAPEC-ID Name des Angriffsmusters
CAPEC-4 Using Alternative IP Address Encodings
This attack relies on the adversary using unexpected formats for representing IP addresses. Networked applications may expect network location information in a specific format, such as fully qualified domains names (FQDNs), URL, IP address, or IP Address ranges. If the location information is not validated against a variety of different possible encodings and formats, the adversary can use an alternate format to bypass application access control.

Referenzen

REF-18

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

REF-1371

IP address spoofing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address_spoofing

Einreichung

Name Organisation Datum Veröffentlichungsdatum Version
CLASP 2006-07-19 +00:00 2006-07-19 +00:00 Draft 3

Änderungen

Name Organisation Datum Kommentar
CWE Content Team MITRE 2008-09-08 +00:00 updated Common_Consequences, Relationships, Other_Notes, Taxonomy_Mappings, Weakness_Ordinalities
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, Demonstrative_Examples
CWE Content Team MITRE 2012-05-11 +00:00 updated Demonstrative_Examples, Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2013-06-23 +00:00 Changed type from composite to weakness.
CWE Content Team MITRE 2013-07-17 +00:00 updated Applicable_Platforms, Description, Name, Relationships, Type
CWE Content Team MITRE 2014-02-18 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2017-11-08 +00:00 updated Causal_Nature, Demonstrative_Examples, Modes_of_Introduction, Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2020-02-24 +00:00 updated References, Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-01-31 +00:00 updated Description
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, References
CWE Content Team MITRE 2025-04-03 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2025-12-11 +00:00 updated Relationships
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