CWE-635: Weaknesses Originally Used by NVD from 2008 to… | Glexia
CWE-635 (Weaknesses Originally Used by NVD from 2008 to 2016) view overview with consequences, detection methods, mitigations, related CVEs and MITRE ATT&CK context.
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CWE-635: Weaknesses Originally Used by NVD from 2008 to 2016
Weaknesses Originally Used by NVD from 2008 to 2016 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-635 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-635, 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-635: Weaknesses Originally Used by NVD from 2008 to 2016
CWE nodes in this view (slice) were used by NIST to categorize vulnerabilities within NVD, from 2008 to 2016. This original version has been used by many other projects.
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
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