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ID

CWE CATEGORY: OWASP Top Ten 2021 Category A06:2021 - Vulnerable and Outdated Components

Category ID: 1352
Vulnerability Mapping: PROHIBITED This CWE ID must not be used to map to real-world vulnerabilities
+ Summary
Weaknesses in this category are related to the A06 category "Vulnerable and Outdated Components" in the OWASP Top Ten 2021.
+ Membership
Nature Type ID Name
MemberOf ViewView - a subset of CWE entries that provides a way of examining CWE content. The two main view structures are Slices (flat lists) and Graphs (containing relationships between entries). 1344 Weaknesses in OWASP Top Ten (2021)
HasMember CategoryCategory - a CWE entry that contains a set of other entries that share a common characteristic. 937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
HasMember CategoryCategory - a CWE entry that contains a set of other entries that share a common characteristic. 1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
HasMember BaseBase - a weakness that is still mostly independent of a resource or technology, but with sufficient details to provide specific methods for detection and prevention. Base level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 2 or 3 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, technology, language, and resource. 1104 Use of Unmaintained Third Party Components
+ Vulnerability Mapping Notes

Usage: PROHIBITED

(this CWE ID must not be used to map to real-world vulnerabilities)

Reason: Category

Rationale:

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.

Comments:

See member weaknesses of this category.
+ Notes

Maintenance

As of CWE 4.6, the relationships in this category were pulled directly from the CWE mappings cited in the 2021 OWASP Top Ten. These mappings include categories, which are discouraged for mapping. The CWE Program will work with OWASP to improve these mappings, possibly requiring modifications to CWE itself.
+ References
[REF-1212] "A06:2021 - Vulnerable and Outdated Components". OWASP. 2021-09-24. <https://owasp.org/Top10/A06_2021-Vulnerable_and_Outdated_Components/>.
[REF-1206] "OWASP Top 10:2021". OWASP. 2021-09-24. <https://owasp.org/Top10/>.
+ Content History
+ Submissions
Submission Date Submitter Organization
2021-10-05
(CWE 4.6, 2021-10-28)
CWE Content Team MITRE
+ Modifications
Modification Date Modifier Organization
2022-10-13 CWE Content Team MITRE
updated References
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team MITRE
updated Mapping_Notes
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team MITRE
updated Mapping_Notes
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