CWE-573 Software Weakness Details

CWE-573

Name

Improper Following of Specification by Caller

Status

Draft

Published

2006-12-15
00h00 +00:00

Modified

2023-06-29
00h00 +00:00

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Name: Improper Following of Specification by Caller

The product does not follow or incorrectly follows the specifications as required by the implementation language, environment, framework, protocol, or platform.

CWE Description

When leveraging external functionality, such as an API, it is important that the caller does so in accordance with the requirements of the external functionality or else unintended behaviors may result, possibly leaving the system vulnerable to any number of exploits.

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Common Consequences

Scope	Impact	Likelihood
Other	Quality Degradation, Varies by Context

Observed Examples

References	Description
CVE-2006-7140	Crypto implementation removes padding when it shouldn't, allowing forged signatures
CVE-2006-4339	Crypto implementation removes padding when it shouldn't, allowing forged signatures

Vulnerability Mapping Notes

Justification : This CWE entry is a Class and might have Base-level children that would be more appropriate
Comment : Examine children of this entry to see if there is a better fit

Submission

Name	Organization	Date	Date release	Version
CWE Community		2006-12-15 +00:00	2006-12-15 +00:00	Draft 5

Modifications

Name	Organization	Date	Comment
Eric Dalci	Cigital	2008-07-01 +00:00	updated Time_of_Introduction
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2008-09-08 +00:00	updated Description, Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2011-03-29 +00:00	updated Description, Name
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2011-06-01 +00:00	updated Common_Consequences, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2011-06-27 +00:00	updated Common_Consequences
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2012-05-11 +00:00	updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2014-07-30 +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 Observed_Examples, Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2019-01-03 +00:00	updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings, Weakness_Ordinalities
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2020-02-24 +00:00	updated Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-01-31 +00:00	updated Description
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-04-27 +00:00	updated Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-06-29 +00:00	updated Mapping_Notes

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