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CWE CATEGORY: 2025 MIHW Supplement: Expert Insights

Category ID: 1433
Vulnerability Mapping: PROHIBITED This CWE ID must not be used to map to real-world vulnerabilities
+ Summary
Weaknesses in this category were not included in the 2025 Most Important Hardware Weaknesses (MIHW) because they did not have sufficient weakness data to support their inclusion. However, they stand out as expert-driven selections. Each of these weaknesses received high scores from Subject Matter Experts, reflecting strong consensus among those with deep domain knowledge.
+ Membership
Nature Type ID Name
MemberOf ViewView - 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). 1432 Weaknesses in the 2025 CWE Most Important Hardware Weaknesses List
HasMember BaseBase - 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. 1231 Improper Prevention of Lock Bit Modification
HasMember BaseBase - 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. 1233 Security-Sensitive Hardware Controls with Missing Lock Bit Protection
HasMember BaseBase - 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. 1244 Internal Asset Exposed to Unsafe Debug Access Level or State
HasMember BaseBase - 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. 1272 Sensitive Information Uncleared Before Debug/Power State Transition
HasMember BaseBase - 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. 1431 Driving Intermediate Cryptographic State/Results to Hardware Module Outputs
+ 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-1480] MITRE. "2025 CWE Most Important Hardware Weaknesses". 2025-08-20. <https://cwe.mitre.org/topHW/index.html>. URL validated: 2025-09-06.
+ Content History
+ Submissions
Submission Date Submitter Organization
2025-09-06
(CWE 4.18, 2025-09-09)
CWE Content Team MITRE
+ Contributions
Contribution Date Contributor Organization
2025-08-20
(CWE 4.18, 2025-09-09)
2025 MIHW Working Group
Helped the CWE Team to define methodology and scoring algorithms; performed data analysis and mappings for Weakness Data Collection (WDC); and/or participated in Expert Poll 1 (EP1) or Expert Poll 2 (EP2).
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