Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-1118

Weakness Prohibited

Insufficient Documentation of Error Handling Techniques

Abstraction: Base · Status: Incomplete

API response cwe.mitre.org

The documentation does not sufficiently describe the techniques that are used for error handling, exception processing, or similar mechanisms.

Mapping guidance

This entry is primarily a quality issue with no direct security implications.

Look for weaknesses that are focused specifically on insecure behaviors that have more direct security implications.

Relationships and members
ChildOf: CWE-1059 · View CWE-1000
Modes of introduction
Documentation
Content history
Submission: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2018-07-02 · CWE 3.2

Entry derived from Common Quality Enumeration (CQE) Draft 0.9.

Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2020-02-24 · CWE 4.0

updated Relationships

Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2023-04-27 · CWE 4.11

updated Relationships

Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2023-06-29 · CWE 4.12

updated Mapping_Notes

Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2024-02-29 · CWE 4.14

updated Mapping_Notes

Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2025-12-11 · CWE 4.19

updated Applicable_Platforms, Common_Consequences, Time_of_Introduction

Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2026-10-28 · CWE 5.0

updated Description, Potential_Mitigations

1 vulnerability references this CWE, most recent first.

CVE-2022-1459 (GCVE-0-2022-1459)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-04-25 09:55 – Updated: 2024-08-03 00:03
VLAI
Title
Non-Privilege User Can View Patient’s Disclosures in openemr/openemr
Summary
Non-Privilege User Can View Patient’s Disclosures in GitHub repository openemr/openemr prior to 6.1.0.1.
Severity
8.3 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-1118 - Insufficient Documentation of Error Handling Techniques
Assigner
@huntrdev CNA
CNA scorecard – unranked: 0 records in the last 180 days, 10 needed details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
openemr openemr/openemr Affected: unspecified , < 6.1.0.1 (custom)
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Mitigation
Documentation

Documentation may need to cover error handling techniques at multiple layers, such as module, executable, compilable code unit, or callable.

No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.

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