Common Weakness Enumeration

Browse CWEs ranked by the number of vulnerabilities referencing them, and pivot to weakness details, mitigations, and related attack patterns.

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768 CWEs

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CWE Name Mapping usage Occurrences
CWE-648 Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs Allowed 64
CWE-170 Improper Null Termination Allowed 64
CWE-682 Incorrect Calculation Discouraged 63
CWE-653 Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization Allowed 63
CWE-614 Sensitive Cookie in HTTPS Session Without 'Secure' Attribute Allowed 63
CWE-183 Permissive List of Allowed Inputs Allowed 63
CWE-524 Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information Allowed 62
CWE-706 Use of Incorrectly-Resolved Name or Reference Allowed-with-Review 61
CWE-29 Path Traversal: '\..\filename' Allowed 61
CWE-379 Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions Allowed 60
CWE-669 Incorrect Resource Transfer Between Spheres Allowed-with-Review 59
CWE-99 Improper Control of Resource Identifiers ('Resource Injection') Allowed-with-Review 57
CWE-87 Improper Neutralization of Alternate XSS Syntax Allowed 56
CWE-841 Improper Enforcement of Behavioral Workflow Allowed 56
CWE-825 Expired Pointer Dereference Allowed 56
CWE-644 Improper Neutralization of HTTP Headers for Scripting Syntax Allowed 56
CWE-357 Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations Allowed 55
CWE-340 Generation of Predictable Numbers or Identifiers Allowed-with-Review 55
CWE-548 Exposure of Information Through Directory Listing Allowed 54
CWE-776 Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion') Allowed 53
CWE-1288 Improper Validation of Consistency within Input Allowed 53
CWE-277 Insecure Inherited Permissions Allowed 52
CWE-1395 Dependency on Vulnerable Third-Party Component Allowed-with-Review 51
CWE-267 Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions Allowed 49
CWE-405 Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification) Allowed-with-Review 48
CWE-300 Channel Accessible by Non-Endpoint Discouraged 48
CWE-1285 Improper Validation of Specified Index, Position, or Offset in Input Allowed 48
CWE-1240 Use of a Cryptographic Primitive with a Risky Implementation Allowed 48
CWE-641 Improper Restriction of Names for Files and Other Resources Allowed 47
CWE-917 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an Expression Language Statement ('Expression Language Injection') Allowed 46
CWE-805 Buffer Access with Incorrect Length Value Allowed 46
CWE-696 Incorrect Behavior Order Allowed-with-Review 44
CWE-440 Expected Behavior Violation Allowed 44
CWE-385 Covert Timing Channel Allowed 44
CWE-1391 Use of Weak Credentials Allowed-with-Review 44
CWE-940 Improper Verification of Source of a Communication Channel Allowed 43
CWE-378 Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions Allowed 43
CWE-124 Buffer Underwrite ('Buffer Underflow') Allowed 42
CWE-118 Incorrect Access of Indexable Resource ('Range Error') Discouraged 42
CWE-791 Incomplete Filtering of Special Elements Allowed 41
CWE-323 Reusing a Nonce, Key Pair in Encryption Allowed 41
CWE-274 Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges Discouraged 41
CWE-261 Weak Encoding for Password Allowed 40
CWE-1004 Sensitive Cookie Without 'HttpOnly' Flag Allowed 40
CWE-667 Improper Locking Allowed-with-Review 39
CWE-289 Authentication Bypass by Alternate Name Allowed 39