Veracode and the CWE

Veracode references the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) standard to map the flaws found in its static and dynamic scans.

Since its founding, Veracode has reported flaws using the industry standard Common Weakness Enumeration as a taxonomy. The CWE provides a mapping of all known types of software weakness or vulnerability, and provides supplemental information to help developers understand the cause of common weaknesses and how to fix them.

Veracode always uses the latest version of the CWE, and updates to new versions within 90 days of release. This page lists the flaws that Veracode may report in automated static and dynamic scans. When a flaw may be mapped to several CWEs, Veracode generally reports the most general CWE that describes that particular case. For example, Veracode prefers CWE-80 for cross-site scripting over its child CWEs. Veracode updates this list frequently.

Veracode Manual Penetration Testing scans may report any valid CWE. You can see the full list of CWEs at the Mitre CWE website.

The listed flaws are grouped according to a list of categories that Veracode uses for convenience. The categories generally correspond to common types of attacks.

Supported static and dynamic scans

This table lists all the CWEs that Veracode searches for during static and dynamic scans.

In the Flaw severity column, Veracode defines flaw severities on the following severity scale:

• 0: Informational
• 1: Very Low
• 2: Low
• 3: Medium
• 4: High
• 5: Very High.

For more information, see Veracode flaw severities.

Appendix: CWEs That Violate Security Standards provides the full list of CWEs that can prevent an application from passing security standard rules in policies.

Flaw category	CWE ID	CWE name	Flaw severity	Static	Dynamic	DAST Essentials
API Abuse	234	Failure to Handle Missing Parameter	3	X
	243	Creation of Chroot Jail Without Changing Working Directory	4	X
	245	J2EE Bad Practices: Direct Management of Connections	2	X
	560	Use of Umask() with Chmod-Style Argument	3	X
	628	Function Call with Incorrectly Specified Arguments	2	X
	675	Duplicate Operations on Resource	2	X
Authentication Issues	284	Improper Access Control	3	X	X	X
	287	Improper Authentication	4	X	X	X
	352	Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)	3	X	X	X
	693	Protection Mechanism Failure	3	X	X
Authorization Issues	99	Improper Control of Resource Identifiers	3	X
	272	Least Privilege Violation	3	X
	273	Improper Check for Dropped Privileges	3	X
	274	Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges	0	X
	282	Improper Ownership Management	3	X
	285	Improper Authorization	3	X	X	X
	346	Origin Validation Error	3	X
	350	Reliance on Reverse DNS Resolution for a Security-Critical Action	3	X
	639	Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key	4	X
	566	Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled SQL Primary Key	3	X
	708	Incorrect Ownership Assignment	4	X
	732	Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource	3	X
	942	Permissive Cross-domain Policy with Untrusted Domains	3	X	X	X
Buffer Management Errors	118	Improper Access of Indexable Resource (Range Error)	3	X
	125	Out-of-Bounds Read	3	X
	129	Improper Validation of Array Index	3	X
	135	Incorrect Calculation of Multi-Byte String Length	5	X
	170	Improper Null Termination	3	X
	193	Off-by-One Error	3	X
	787	Out-of-Bounds Write	3	X
	823	Use of Out-of-Range Pointer Offset	3	X
	824	Access of Uninitialized Pointer	3	X
Buffer Overflow	121	Stack-Based Buffer Overflow	5	X
Code Injection	74	Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component (Injection)	4		X	X
	91	XML Injection (Blind XPath Injection)	3	X	X
	94	Improper Control of Generation of Code	3	X
	95	Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code ('Eval Injection')	5	X	X
	98	Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program (PHP File Inclusion)	4	X	X	X
	185	Incorrect Regular Expression	2	X
	830	Inclusion of Web Functionality from an Untrusted Source	2		X
Code Quality	111	Direct Use of Unsafe JNI	4	X
	159	Failure to Sanitize Special Element	0	X
	401	Improper Release of Memory Before Removing Last Reference (Memory Leak)	2	X
	404	Improper Resource Shutdown or Release	0	X
	415	Double Free	3	X
	416	Use After Free	2	X
	477	Use of Obsolete Functions	0	X	X
	479	Signal Handler Use of a Non-Reentrant Function	3	X
	489	Leftover Debug Code	3	X
	597	Use of Wrong Operator in String Comparison	2	X
Command or Argument Injection	77	Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command (Command Injection)	5	X		X
	78	Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command (OS Command Injection)	5	X	X	X
	88	Argument Injection or Modification	3	X
Credentials Management	256	Plaintext Storage of a Password	3	X
	259	Use of Hard-coded Password	3	X	X
	522	Insufficiently Protected Credentials	3	X	X	X
	798	Use of Hard-code Credentials	3	X
CRLF Injection	93	Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences (CRLF Injection)	3	X
	113	Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers (HTTP Response Splitting)	3	X	X
	117	Improper Output Neutralization for Logs	3	X
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)	79	Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting)	3	X	X	X
	80	Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)	3	X	X	X
	83	Improper Neutralization of Script in Attributes in a Web Page	3	X	X	X
	86	Improper Neutralization of Invalid Characters in Identifiers in Web Pages	3	X
Cryptographic Issues	261	Weak Cryptography for Passwords	3	X
	295	Improper Certificate Validation	3	X		X
	296	Improper Following of Chain of Trust for Certificate Validation	3		X	X
	297	Improper Validation of Host-specific Certificate Data	3	X	X	X
	298	Improper Validation of Certificate Expiration	3		X	X
	299	Improper Check for Certificate Revocation	3		X	X
	311	Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data	3	X
	312	Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information	3	X
	313	Plaintext Storage in a File or on Disk	3	X
	316	Plaintext Storage in Memory	3	X
	319	Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information	3	X
	321	Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key	3	X	X
	326	Inadequate Encryption Strength	3	X	X	X
	327	Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm	3	X	X	X
	328	Reversible One-Way Hash	3	X
	329	Not Using a Random IV with CBC Mode	2	X		X
	330	Use of Insufficiently Random Values	3	X
	331	Insufficient Entropy	3	X
	338	Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator	3	X
	347	Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature	2	X
	354	Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value	3	X
	547	Use of Hard-coded, Security-relevant Constants	3	X
	614	Sensitive Cookie in HTTPS Session Without Secure Attribute	2	X	X	X
	760	Use of a One-Way Hash with a Predictable Salt	3	X
	780	Use of RSA without Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding	3	X
	916	Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort	3	X
Dangerous Functions	242	Use of Inherently Dangerous Function	5	X
	676	Use of Potentially Dangerous Function	3	X
Deployment Configuration	402	Transmission of Private Resources into a New Sphere (Resource Leak)	3		X
	668	Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere	3	X	X	X
	926	Improper Export of Android Application Components	3	X
Directory Traversal	22	Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal)	3	X	X	X
	35	Path Traversal	2	X		X
	73	External Control of File Name or Path	3	X		X
Encapsulation	494	Download of Code Without Integrity Check	5	X
	501	Trust Boundary Violation	3	X
	502	Deserialization of Untrusted Data	3	X		X
	749	Exposed Dangerous Method or Function	4	X
Error Handling	248	Uncaught Exception	2	X
	252	Unchecked Return Value	2	X
Format String	134	Use of Externally-Controlled Format String	5	X
Information Leakage	200	Information Exposure	2	X	X	X
	201	Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data	2	X
	209	Information Exposure Through an Error Message	2	X	X
	215	Information Exposure Through Debug Information	2	X	X
	359	Exposure of Private Information (Privacy Violation)	2	X
	497	Exposure of System Data to an Unauthorized Control Sphere	2	X
	526	Information Exposure Through Environmental Variables	2		X
	530	Exposure of Backup File to an Unauthorized Control Sphere	2		X	X
	532	Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File	2	X
	538	File and Directory Information Exposure	0		X	X
	548	Information Exposure Through Directory Listing	2		X	X
	611	Information Exposure Through XML External Entity Reference	3	X	X	X
	615	Information Exposure Through Comments	0	X	X
	665	Improper Initialization	2	X
	918	Server-side Request Forgery	3	X	X
Insecure Dependencies	829	Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere	3	X	X	X
Insufficient Input Validation	20	Improper Input Validation	0	X
	90	Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Used in an LDAP Query (LDAP Injection)	3	X
	103	Struts: Incomplete validate() Method Definition	3	X
	104	Struts: Form Bean Does Not Extend Validation Class	3	X
	112	Missing XML Validation	3	X		X
	115	Misinterpretation of Input	4		X
	183	Permissive List of Allowed Inputs	3	X
	345	Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity	4	X	X
	434	Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type	4		X
	470	Use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select Classes or Code (Unsafe Reflection)	3	X
	472	External Control of Assumed-Immutable Web Parameter	3	X
	601	URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect)	3	X	X
	618	Exposed Unsafe ActiveX Method	5	X
	915	Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes	3	X
	1174	ASP.NET Misconfiguration: Improper Model Validation	2	X
	1236	Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File	3	X
Insufficient Logging & Monitoring	223	Omission of Security-relevant Information	2	X
Numeric Errors	190	Integer Overflow or Wraparound	5	X
	191	Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)	3	X
	192	Integer Coercion Error	3	X
	195	Signed to Unsigned Conversion Error	3	X
	196	Unsigned to Signed Conversion Error	3	X
	197	Numeric Truncation Error	3	X
Potential Backdoor	398	Indicator of Poor Code Quality	0	X
	506	Embedded Malicious Code	4	X
	511	Logic/Time Bomb	5	X
	514	Covert Channel	2	X
	656	Reliance on Security Through Obscurity	0	X
Race Conditions	366	Race Condition within a Thread	3	X
	367	Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition	3	X
	421	Race Condition During Access to Alternate Channel	3	X
Server Configuration	16	Configuration	0		X	X
	441	Unintended Proxy or Intermediary (Confused Deputy)	3	X
	642	External Control of Critical State Data	2		X
	757	Selection of Less-Secure Algorithm During Negotiation (Algorithm Downgrade)	3	X	X	X
Session Fixation	384	Session Fixation	3	X	X
SQL Injection	89	Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command (SQL Injection)	4	X	X	X
	564	SQL Injection: Hibernate	4	X
	943	Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Data Query Logic	4	X
Time and State	377	Insecure Temporary File	3	X
	382	J2EE Bad Practices: Use of System.exit()	2	X
	557	Concurrency Issues	2	X
	691	Insufficient Control Flow Management	0	X
Untrusted Initialization	15	External Control of System or Configuration Setting	4	X
	454	External Initialization of Trusted Variables or Data Stores	0	X
Untrusted Search Path	114	Process Control	5	X
	426	Untrusted Search Path	3	X
	427	Uncontrolled Search Path Element	3	X