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Home/CWEs/CWE-295
Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-295: Improper Certificate Validation

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The product does not correctly validate a certificate chain, host name, or expiry.

Abstraction
Base
OWASP Top 10
A02:2021 (#2)
Exploit Likelihood
Medium
Related CVEs
0

How to mitigate

Use platform TLS validation as-is; never disable verification, pin only with rotation plans.

▪References & documentation

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/295.htmlNVD CWE listing

▪ How attackers exploit CWE-295

MITRE ATT&CK techniques associated with this weakness class (mapped via MITRE CAPEC). A vulnerability of this type could let an adversary carry out:

T1036MasqueradingstealthT1553Subvert Trust Controlsdefense-impairment

▪ Related CVEs

No CVEs in the Gold index currently reference CWE-295. New matches appear here as the crawler indexes them.