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2024 CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses

2024 CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses

The 2024 CWE Top 25 is here! 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. The Top 25 highlights the most severe and prevalent weaknesses behind the 31,770 CVE® Records in this year’s dataset. Read more here:
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