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CWE CATEGORY: Key Management Errors
Category ID: 320Vulnerability Mapping: PROHIBITED This CWE ID must not be used to map to real-world vulnerabilities
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View - 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).699 Software Development MemberOf
Category - a CWE entry that contains a set of other entries that share a common characteristic.934 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A6 - Sensitive Data Exposure MemberOf
Category - a CWE entry that contains a set of other entries that share a common characteristic.1029 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A3 - Sensitive Data Exposure MemberOf
Category - a CWE entry that contains a set of other entries that share a common characteristic.1439 OWASP Top Ten 2025 Category A04:2025 - Cryptographic Failures HasMember
Base - 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.322 Key Exchange without Entity Authentication HasMember
Base - 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.323 Reusing a Nonce, Key Pair in Encryption HasMember
Base - 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.324 Use of a Key Past its Expiration Date HasMember
Base - 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.798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials Usage: PROHIBITED
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