On June 28th 2022, Mitre shared the 2022 Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE™) Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses list (CWE™ Top 25). “This list demonstrates the currently most common and impactful software weaknesses. Often easy to find and exploit, these can lead to exploitable vulnerabilities that allow adversaries to completely take over a system, steal data, or prevent applications from working.” Said Mitre
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The 2022 CWE Top 25
| Rank | ID | Name | Score | KEV Count (CVEs) | Rank Change vs. 2021 |
| 1 | CWE-787 | Out-of-bounds Write | 64.20 | 62 | 0 |
| 2 | CWE-79 | Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (‘Cross-site Scripting’) | 45.97 | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | CWE-89 | Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command (‘SQL Injection’) | 22.11 | 7 | +3 |
| 4 | CWE-20 | Improper Input Validation | 20.63 | 20 | 0 |
| 5 | CWE-125 | Out-of-bounds Read | 17.67 | 1 | -2 |
| 6 | CWE-78 | Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command (‘OS Command Injection’) | 17.53 | 32 | -1 |
| 7 | CWE-416 | Use After Free | 15.50 | 28 | 0 |
| 8 | CWE-22 | Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (‘Path Traversal’) | 14.08 | 19 | 0 |
| 9 | CWE-352 | Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) | 11.53 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | CWE-434 | Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type | 9.56 | 6 | 0 |
| 11 | CWE-476 | NULL Pointer Dereference | 7.15 | 0 | +4 |
| 12 | CWE-502 | Deserialization of Untrusted Data | 6.68 | 7 | +1 |
| 13 | CWE-190 | Integer Overflow or Wraparound | 6.53 | 2 | -1 |
| 14 | CWE-287 | Improper Authentication | 6.35 | 4 | 0 |
| 15 | CWE-798 | Use of Hard-coded Credentials | 5.66 | 0 | +1 |
| 16 | CWE-862 | Missing Authorization | 5.53 | 1 | +2 |
| 17 | CWE-77 | Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command (‘Command Injection’) | 5.42 | 5 | +8 |
| 18 | CWE-306 | Missing Authentication for Critical Function | 5.15 | 6 | -7 |
| 19 | CWE-119 | Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer | 4.85 | 6 | -2 |
| 20 | CWE-276 | Incorrect Default Permissions | 4.84 | 0 | -1 |
| 21 | CWE-918 | Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) | 4.27 | 8 | +3 |
| 22 | CWE-362 | Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (‘Race Condition’) | 3.57 | 6 | +11 |
| 23 | CWE-400 | Uncontrolled Resource Consumption | 3.56 | 2 | +4 |
| 24 | CWE-611 | Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference | 3.38 | 0 | -1 |
| 25 | CWE-94 | Improper Control of Generation of Code (‘Code Injection’) | 3.32 | 4 | +3 |
CWE-362 (Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (‘Race Condition’)), CWE -94 (Improper Control of Generation of Code (‘Code Injection’)) and CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption) are the new entries to the 2022 CWE top 22. While CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor), CWE-522 (Insufficiently Protected Credentials) and CWE-732 (Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource) fell off the top 25.
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