CWE-656 : Reliance on Security Through Obscurity

The product uses a protection mechanism whose strength depends heavily on its obscurity, such that knowledge of its algorithms or key data is sufficient to defeat the mechanism.

Created: 2008-01-18 Updated: 2025-04-03 Source: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/656.html
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