Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-452

Grouping Prohibited

Initialization and Cleanup Errors

Status: Draft

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Weaknesses in this category occur in behaviors that are used for initialization and breakdown.

Grouping entries organize the catalogue and should not be used to map the root cause of a vulnerability.

Mapping guidance

This entry is a Grouping. Using groupings for mapping has been discouraged since 2019. They are informal organizational groupings of weaknesses that can help CWE users with data aggregation, navigation, and browsing. However, they are not weaknesses in themselves.

See member weaknesses of this category.

Relationships and members
Has Member: CWE-212 · View CWE-699
Has Member: CWE-454 · View CWE-699
Has Member: CWE-455 · View CWE-699
Has Member: CWE-459 · View CWE-699
Has Member: CWE-1051 · View CWE-699
Has Member: CWE-1052 · View CWE-699
Has Member: CWE-1188 · View CWE-699
Content history
Submission: PLOVER · 2006-07-19 · CWE Draft 3
Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2008-09-08 · CWE 1.0

updated Relationships, Other_Notes, Taxonomy_Mappings

Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2013-02-21 · CWE 2.4

updated Relationships

Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2014-06-23 · CWE 2.7

updated Other_Notes, Research_Gaps

Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2017-01-19 · CWE 2.10

updated Relationships

Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2017-11-08 · CWE 3.0

updated Applicable_Platforms, Research_Gaps

Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2019-01-03 · CWE 3.2

updated Relationships

Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2019-06-20 · CWE 3.3

updated Relationships

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 Mapping_Notes, Relationships

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

updated Mapping_Notes

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

updated Mapping_Notes, Type

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