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CWE-683 Individual Dictionary Definition (Draft 9)
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| Status: Draft 683 (Weakness Variant) | | Description | Summary The software calls a function, procedure, or routine, but the caller specifies the arguments in an incorrect order, leading to resultant weaknesses. Extended Description While this weakness might be caught by the compiler in some languages, it can occur more frequently in cases in which the called function accepts variable numbers or types of arguments, such as format strings in C. It also can occur in languages or environments that do not enforce strong typing. | | Weakness Ordinality | Primary (Weakness exists independent of other weaknesses) | | Observed Examples | | Reference | Description |
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| CVE-2006-7049 | Application calls functions with arguments in the wrong order, allowing attacker to bypass intended access restrictions. |
| | Context Notes | This issue is most likely to occur in rarely-tested code. | | Relationships | | | Time of Introduction | Implementation |
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