Cyber Resilience

CWE · MITRE source

CWE-305Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness

Abstraction: Base · CVEs in our corpus: 150

The authentication algorithm is sound, but the implemented mechanism can be bypassed as the result of a separate weakness that is primary to the authentication error.

Last updated: 04 July 2026 00:28 UTC

Cumulative inbound coverage

How completely the frameworks we cross-walk collectively cover this — the verdict is the strongest single mapping (overlapping partials are not summed); breadth shows the corroboration behind it.

Collective: mostly · 6 mapping(s) from 5 framework(s): ASVS 5.0 2 (partial) · OWASP-Web 1 (mostly) · STIG ubuntu 22 04 1 (partial) · STIG ubuntu 24 04 1 (partial) · ATT&CK 1 (partial)

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OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

This weakness contributes to A07:2025 Authentication Failures.

NIST 800-53 r5 controls that address this weakness (0)AI

Control Title Family Why it addresses this CWE
No NIST controls proposed yet.

MITRE ATT&CK techniques this weakness enables

Our own two-way CWE↔ATT&CK cross-walk — a direct mapping with no public source (the CWE→CAPEC→ATT&CK chain leaves most top weaknesses, incl. XSS and SQLi, mapped to nothing). Drafted by Grok and spot-checked by Claude Opus 4.8.

Direction: other covers this; this covers other (F/M/P = full / mostly / partial).

Top CVEs of this weakness type, ranked by Risk Priority

CVE Risk CVSS EPSS Published
CVE-2024-37085 KEV10.06.80.26772024-06-25
CVE-2025-31161 KEV10.09.80.99962025-04-03
CVE-2020-109238.08.80.84682020-07-28
CVE-2023-281268.05.90.66662023-05-09
CVE-2019-149107.09.80.01052019-12-05
CVE-2020-110127.09.30.02102020-04-23
CVE-2020-157877.09.80.01482020-09-09
CVE-2020-246837.09.80.01412020-12-22
CVE-2021-38507.09.10.02172022-01-25
CVE-2022-05477.09.80.03522022-03-18
CVE-2022-26517.09.80.11382022-08-04
CVE-2023-07777.09.80.15092023-02-10
CVE-2023-13077.09.80.01072023-03-10
CVE-2023-275827.09.10.01022023-03-13
CVE-2023-287277.09.60.00382023-03-31
CVE-2023-18337.09.80.00762023-04-14
CVE-2023-341247.09.80.40892023-07-13
CVE-2023-341377.09.80.00892023-07-13
CVE-2023-45017.09.80.00622023-09-12
CVE-2024-1403 UPD7.010.00.03272024-02-27
CVE-2023-71037.09.80.00642024-03-05
CVE-2024-1202 UPD7.09.80.00892024-03-21
CVE-2023-61537.09.80.00692024-03-27
CVE-2024-363887.010.00.00472024-06-02
CVE-2023-419207.09.80.00422024-07-02