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ID

CWE CATEGORY: OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities

Category ID: 937
+ Summary
Weaknesses in this category are related to the A9 category in the OWASP Top Ten 2013.
+ Membership
NatureTypeIDName
MemberOfViewView - 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).928Weaknesses in OWASP Top Ten (2013)
MemberOfCategoryCategory - a CWE entry that contains a set of other entries that share a common characteristic.1352OWASP Top Ten 2021 Category A06:2021 - Vulnerable and Outdated Components
+ Notes

Mapping

Use for Mapping: Prohibited (this CWE ID must not be used to map to real-world vulnerabilities).

Rationale: this entry is a Category. Using categories for mapping has been an actively discouraged practice since at least 2019. Categories are informal organizational groupings of weaknesses that help navigation and browsing by CWE users, but they are not weaknesses in themselves.

Comments: See member weaknesses of this category.

Relationship

This is an unusual category. CWE does not cover the limitations of human processes and procedures that cannot be described in terms of a specific technical weakness as resident in the code, architecture, or configuration of the software. Since "known vulnerabilities" can arise from any kind of weakness, it is not possible to map this OWASP category to other CWE entries, since it would effectively require mapping this category to ALL weaknesses.
+ References
[REF-936] OWASP. "Top 10 2013-A9-Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities". <https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2013-A9-Using_Components_with_Known_Vulnerabilities>.
+ Content History
+ Submissions
Submission DateSubmitterOrganization
2013-07-16CWE Content TeamMITRE
+ Modifications
Modification DateModifierOrganization
2021-10-28CWE Content TeamMITRE
updated Relationships
2023-04-27CWE Content TeamMITRE
updated Mapping_Notes
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