The description above is MITRE’s definition of CWE-1188 in CWE 4.20, a base-level weakness.
Common consequences MITRE lists
- Other: Varies by Context
Guides on this site
Preserve framework security controls across the request lifecycle
Trace middleware, persistence and rendering so custom code does not bypass the protections supplied by the framework.
Apply a security baseline across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
Give workloads platform identities instead of keys, guard the instance metadata endpoint, block public storage, keep audit logs past the default retention, close inbound admin ports and use the native secret store, with tested Terraform for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
Choose cloud security posture tools and apply zero trust
What CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, CNAPP, DSPM and ASPM each find and miss, how they overlap, how to evaluate one on your own accounts, and how zero trust as defined in NIST SP 800-207 uses what they measure.
Harden the images you ship against CIS, STIG and SCAP benchmarks
Hold each image your team ships (container base images, golden VM images, Kubernetes node images) to a published benchmark through a pinned SCAP Security Guide profile, scan every build with OpenSCAP, and fail the build on any failure that a deviation register does not explain with an owner, an approver and an expiry.
Harden managed Kubernetes on EKS, AKS and GKE
Know what your provider secures and what you still own, then lock down API access, cloud identity, nodes, pod privileges and admission with settings that are generally available in Kubernetes 1.37, checked against the CIS and NSA/CISA baselines.
Secure design patterns: a catalogue for insecure-design (A06)
A catalogue of reusable secure-design patterns, grouped by concern, each with when to use it, a short example and the failure it prevents: choke-point authorization, capability tokens, parse-don't-validate, safe-by-default APIs, tenant scoping, fail-closed, idempotency, and more.
Practice
- Secure a real HTTP API · Local project
- Gate an image build on a CIS scan and a deviation register · Local project
References
This page is generated from MITRE’s CWE 4.20 catalogue (released 30 April 2026) and lists every guide, fix card and lab here that cites CWE-1188.
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