CWE-637
Unnecessary Complexity in Protection Mechanism (Not Using 'Economy of Mechanism')
ClassDraft
Description
The product uses a more complex mechanism than necessary, which could lead to resultant weaknesses when the mechanism is not correctly understood, modeled, configured, implemented, or used.
Security mechanisms should be as simple as possible. Complex security mechanisms may engender partial implementations and compatibility problems, with resulting mismatches in assumptions and implemented security. A corollary of this principle is that data specifications should be as simple as possible, because complex data specifications result in complex validation code. Complex tasks and systems may also need to be guarded by complex security checks, so simple systems should be preferred.
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CVEs mapped to this weakness (1)
| CVE | Vendor / Product | Sev | Risk | CVSS | EPSS | KEV | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-9058 | Cri | 0.60 | — | 0.00 | May 25, 2026 | Szafir SDK returns a success status code from the cryptographic digital signature verification process (i.e. /VerifyingTaskItem/Signature/VerificationResult/Result/@code == 0, "Positively verified") even when the trust status of the signer's certificate could not be established… |
- risk 0.60cvss —epss 0.00
Szafir SDK returns a success status code from the cryptographic digital signature verification process (i.e. /VerifyingTaskItem/Signature/VerificationResult/Result/@code == 0, "Positively verified") even when the trust status of the signer's certificate could not be established…