CWE-703 Detail

CWE-703

Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions
Incomplete
2008-09-09
00h00 +00:00
2025-12-11
00h00 +00:00
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Naam: Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions

The product does not properly anticipate or handle exceptional conditions that rarely occur during normal operation of the product.

Algemene informatie

Introductiemodi

Architecture and Design
Implementation : REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.
Operation

Toepasselijke platforms

Taal

Class: Not Language-Specific (Undetermined)

Technologieën

Class: Not Technology-Specific (Undetermined)

Veelvoorkomende gevolgen

Bereik Impact Waarschijnlijkheid
Confidentiality
Availability
Integrity		Read Application Data, DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart, Unexpected State

Waargenomen voorbeelden

Referenties Beschrijving

[REF-1374]

Chain: JavaScript-based cryptocurrency library can fall back to the insecure Math.random() function instead of reporting a failure (CWE-392), thus reducing the entropy (CWE-332) and leading to generation of non-unique cryptographic keys for Bitcoin wallets (CWE-1391)

CVE-2022-22224

Chain: an operating system does not properly process malformed Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Type/Length/Value Identifiers (TLV) (CWE-703), which can cause the process to enter an infinite loop (CWE-835)

Detectiemethoden

Dynamic Analysis with Manual Results Interpretation

Effectiviteit : High

Manual Static Analysis - Source Code

Effectiviteit : High

Automated Static Analysis - Source Code

Effectiviteit : SOAR Partial

Architecture or Design Review

Effectiviteit : High

Notities kwetsbaarheidsmapping

Rechtvaardiging : This CWE entry is extremely high-level, a Pillar.
Opmerking : Consider children or descendants of this entry instead.

Notities

This is a high-level class that might have some overlap with other classes. It could be argued that even "normal" weaknesses such as buffer overflows involve unusual or exceptional conditions. In that sense, this might be an inherent aspect of most other weaknesses within CWE, similar to API Abuse (CWE-227) and Indicator of Poor Code Quality (CWE-398). However, this entry is currently intended to unify disparate concepts that do not have other places within the Research Concepts view (CWE-1000).

Referenties

REF-567

A Taxonomy of Security Faults in the UNIX Operating System
Taimur Aslam.
http://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/papers/taimur-aslam/aslam-taxonomy-msthesis.pdf

REF-568

Use of A Taxonomy of Security Faults
Taimur Aslam, Ivan Krsul, Eugene H. Spafford.
https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/publications/conference-paper/1996/10/22/proceedings-of-the-19th-nissc-1996/documents/paper057/paper.pdf

REF-44

24 Deadly Sins of Software Security
Michael Howard, David LeBlanc, John Viega.

REF-1374

Randstorm: You Can't Patch a House of Cards
Unciphered.
https://www.unciphered.com/disclosure-of-vulnerable-bitcoin-wallet-library-2/

REF-1479

State-of-the-Art Resources (SOAR) for Software Vulnerability Detection, Test, and Evaluation
Gregory Larsen, E. Kenneth Hong Fong, David A. Wheeler, Rama S. Moorthy.
https://www.ida.org/-/media/feature/publications/s/st/stateoftheart-resources-soar-for-software-vulnerability-detection-test-and-evaluation/p-5061.ashx

Indiening

Naam Organisatie Datum Releasedatum Version
CWE Content Team MITRE 2008-09-09 +00:00 2008-09-09 +00:00 1.0

Wijzigingen

Naam Organisatie Datum Opmerking
Eric Dalci Cigital 2008-07-01 +00:00 updated Time_of_Introduction
CWE Content Team MITRE 2009-03-10 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2009-10-29 +00:00 updated Other_Notes
CWE Content Team MITRE 2010-02-16 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2010-12-13 +00:00 updated Name, Relationship_Notes
CWE Content Team MITRE 2011-03-29 +00:00 updated Relationships
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 2011-09-13 +00:00 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
CWE Content Team MITRE 2012-05-11 +00:00 updated References, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
CWE Content Team MITRE 2014-07-30 +00:00 updated Detection_Factors, Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2017-01-19 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2017-11-08 +00:00 updated Applicable_Platforms, Modes_of_Introduction, References, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
CWE Content Team MITRE 2019-01-03 +00:00 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
CWE Content Team MITRE 2019-06-20 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2020-02-24 +00:00 updated Applicable_Platforms, Relationships, Type
CWE Content Team MITRE 2020-08-20 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2020-12-10 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2021-07-20 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2021-10-28 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2022-04-28 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-01-31 +00:00 updated Description, Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-04-27 +00:00 updated References, Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-06-29 +00:00 updated Mapping_Notes, Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-10-26 +00:00 updated Observed_Examples
CWE Content Team MITRE 2024-02-29 +00:00 updated Demonstrative_Examples, Observed_Examples, References, Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2025-04-03 +00:00 updated Demonstrative_Examples
CWE Content Team MITRE 2025-09-09 +00:00 updated Detection_Factors, References
CWE Content Team MITRE 2025-12-11 +00:00 updated Diagram, Relationships, Weakness_Ordinalities
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