CWE-1428

Reliance on HTTP instead of HTTPS

The product provides or relies on use of HTTP communications when HTTPS is available.

CVE-2026-40677 (GCVE-0-2026-40677)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-12 14:29 – Updated: 2026-06-13 03:55
VLAI
Summary
The use of insecure HTTP transport within AMD optional tools could allow an attacker to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.
Severity
7.7 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-1428 - Reliance on HTTP instead of HTTPS
Assigner
AMD
References
Impacted products
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Mitigation

Phase: Architecture and Design

Description:

  • Explicitly require HTTPS or another mechanism that ensures that communication is encrypted [REF-1464].
Mitigation

Phase: Implementation

Description:

  • Avoid using "mixed content," i.e., serving a web page over HTTPS in which the page includes elements that use "http:" URLs [REF-1466] [REF-1467]. This is often done for images or other resources that do not seem to have privacy or security implications.
Mitigation

Phases: Implementation, Operation

Description:

  • Perform "HTTPS forcing," that is, redirecting HTTP requests to HTTPS.
Mitigation

Phase: Operation

Description:

  • If the product supports multiple protocols, ensure that encrypted protocols (such as HTTPS) are required, and remove any unencrypted protocols (such as HTTP).

No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.

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