CWE-310 Categorie Detail

CWE-310

Cryptographic Issues
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2006-07-19 +00:00
2023-06-29 +00:00
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Name: Cryptographic Issues

Weaknesses in this category are related to the design and implementation of data confidentiality and integrity. Frequently these deal with the use of encoding techniques, encryption libraries, and hashing algorithms. The weaknesses in this category could lead to a degradation of the quality data if they are not addressed.

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CWE-261: Weak Encoding for Password Base

CWE-324: Use of a Key Past its Expiration Date Base

CWE-325: Missing Cryptographic Step Base

CWE-328: Use of Weak Hash Base

CWE-331: Insufficient Entropy Base

CWE-334: Small Space of Random Values Base

CWE-335: Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) Base

CWE-338: Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) Base

CWE-347: Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Base

CWE-916: Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort Base

CWE-1204: Generation of Weak Initialization Vector (IV) Base

CWE-1240: Use of a Cryptographic Primitive with a Risky Implementation Base

CWE Informations

Vulnerability Mapping Notes

Justification : This entry is a Category. Using categories for mapping has been discouraged since 2019. Categories are informal organizational groupings of weaknesses that can help CWE users with data aggregation, navigation, and browsing. However, they are not weaknesses in themselves [REF-1287]. This CWE ID may have become widely-used because of NIST's usage in NVD from 2008 to 2016 (see CWE-635 view, updated to the CWE-1003 view in 2016).
Comment : Some weakness-oriented alternatives might be found as descendants under Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm (CWE-327)

Submission

Name Organization Date Date release Version
PLOVER 2006-07-19 +00:00 2006-07-19 +00:00 Draft 3

Modifications

Name Organization Date Comment
CWE Content Team MITRE 2008-09-08 +00:00 updated Maintenance_Notes, Relationships, Relationship_Notes, Taxonomy_Mappings
CWE Content Team MITRE 2009-07-27 +00:00 updated Maintenance_Notes, Relationship_Notes, Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2009-10-29 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2010-02-16 +00:00 updated References
CWE Content Team MITRE 2013-07-17 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2014-02-18 +00:00 updated Related_Attack_Patterns
CWE Content Team MITRE 2015-12-07 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2017-01-19 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2017-11-08 +00:00 updated Applicable_Platforms, Functional_Areas, References, Related_Attack_Patterns, Relationship_Notes
CWE Content Team MITRE 2018-03-27 +00:00 updated References, Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2019-06-20 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2020-02-24 +00:00 updated Description, Maintenance_Notes, Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2021-10-28 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2022-10-13 +00:00 updated Maintenance_Notes, References
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-04-27 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-06-29 +00:00 updated Mapping_Notes

References

REF-7

Writing Secure Code
Michael Howard, David LeBlanc.
https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/store/writing-secure-code-9780735617223

REF-1287

Supplemental Details - 2022 CWE Top 25
MITRE.
https://cwe.mitre.org/top25/archive/2022/2022_cwe_top25_supplemental.html#problematicMappingDetails