CWE-1112: Incomplete Documentation of Program Execution | Glexia
CWE-1112 (Incomplete Documentation of Program Execution) weakness overview with consequences, detection methods, mitigations, related CVEs and MITRE ATT&CK context.
Glexia's Take · Automated analysis
CWE-1112: Incomplete Documentation of Program Execution
Incomplete Documentation of Program Execution represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.
Executive Impact
- Other: Reduce Maintainability
- Other: Increase Analytical Complexity
Developer Pattern
CWE-1112 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-1112, 4.20.
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Official CWE Definition
CWE-1112: Incomplete Documentation of Program Execution
The document does not fully define all mechanisms that are used to control or influence how product-specific programs are executed.
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
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ATT&CK Relevance
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