CWE-655

Insufficient Psychological Acceptability

The product has a protection mechanism that is too difficult or inconvenient to use, encouraging non-malicious users to disable or bypass the mechanism, whether by accident or on purpose.

Mitigation

Phase: Testing

Description:

  • Where possible, perform human factors and usability studies to identify where your product's security mechanisms are difficult to use, and why.
Mitigation

Phase: Architecture and Design

Description:

  • Make the security mechanism as seamless as possible, while also providing the user with sufficient details when a security decision produces unexpected results.

No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.

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