CWE - CWE-1168: SEI CERT C Coding Standard - Guidelines 13. Application Programming Interfaces (API) (4.12)

Category ID: 1168

Summary

Weaknesses in this category are related to the rules and recommendations in the Application Programming Interfaces (API) section of the SEI CERT C Coding Standard.

Membership

Nature	Type	ID	Name
MemberOf	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).	1154	Weaknesses Addressed by the SEI CERT C Coding Standard

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.

References

[REF-611] The Software Engineering Institute. "SEI CERT C Coding Standard : Rule 13. Application Programming Interfaces (API)". <https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=87152242>.

[REF-991] The Software Engineering Institute. "SEI CERT C Coding Standard : Rec 13. Application Programming Interfaces (API)". <https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=87151980>.

Content History

Submissions
Submission Date	Submitter	Organization
2018-12-18 (CWE 3.2, 2019-01-03)	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2018-12-18 (CWE 3.2, 2019-01-03)
Modifications
Modification Date	Modifier	Organization
2023-04-27	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2023-04-27	updated Mapping_Notes
2023-06-29	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2023-06-29	updated Mapping_Notes

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CWE CATEGORY: SEI CERT C Coding Standard - Guidelines 13. Application Programming Interfaces (API)


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