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CWE-392: Missing Report of Error Condition | Glexia

CWE-392 (Missing Report of Error Condition) weakness overview with consequences, detection methods, mitigations, related CVEs and MITRE ATT&CK context.

Release 4.20weaknessDraft

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CWE-392: Missing Report of Error Condition

Missing Report of Error Condition represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.

Executive Impact

Integrity,Other: Varies by Context,Unexpected State: Errors that are not properly reported could place the system in an unexpected state that could lead to unintended behaviors.

Developer Pattern

CWE-392 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-392, 4.20.

Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.

Official CWE Definition

CWE-392: Missing Report of Error Condition

The product encounters an error but does not provide a status code or return value to indicate that an error has occurred.

Type: weakness
Abstraction: Base
Status: Draft
Source: MITRE CWE definition

Developer And Remediation Guidance

How teams prevent and detect this weakness

Causes

In the following snippet from a doPost() servlet method, the server returns "200 OK" (default) even if an error occurs.

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

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ATT&CK Relevance

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