CWE-717: OWASP Top Ten 2007 Category A6 - Information… | Glexia
CWE-717 (OWASP Top Ten 2007 Category A6 - Information Leakage and Improper Error Handling) category overview with consequences, detection methods, mitigations,…
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CWE-717: OWASP Top Ten 2007 Category A6 - Information Leakage and Improper Error Handling
OWASP Top Ten 2007 Category A6 - Information Leakage and Improper Error Handling represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.
Executive Impact
- Security incident exposure
- Service disruption
- Compliance and remediation cost
Developer Pattern
CWE-717 is the kind of defect developers can usually prevent with explicit validation, safer framework defaults, and tests that exercise hostile input or unsafe state transitions.
Automation confidence
high confidence from CWE-717, 4.20.
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Official CWE Definition
CWE-717: OWASP Top Ten 2007 Category A6 - Information Leakage and Improper Error Handling
CWE-717: OWASP Top Ten 2007 Category A6 - Information Leakage and Improper Error Handling
Developer And Remediation Guidance
How teams prevent and detect this weakness
Causes
- Missing validation
- Unsafe defaults
- Insufficient authorization or memory-safety invariant
Remediation
- Use safe APIs
- Centralize the control
- Add regression tests
- Review logs and telemetry for attempted abuse
Detection
- Code review
- SAST
- DAST
- Focused regression tests
Mappings
Related CVEs, CWEs, and ATT&CK context
Related CWEs
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ATT&CK Relevance
ATT&CK relevance is shown only when reviewed or responsibly inferred.