Initialization and Cleanup Errors
A category in the Common Weakness Enumeration published by The MITRE Corporation.
Summary
Categories in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) group entries based on some common characteristic or attribute.
Weaknesses in this category occur in behaviors that are used for initialization and breakdown.
Weaknesses
The product initializes a data element using a hard-coded literal that is not a simple integer or static constant element.
The product initializes critical internal variables or data stores using inputs that can be modified by untrusted actors.
The product stores, transfers, or shares a resource that contains sensitive information, but it does not properly remove that information before the product makes the ...
The product does not properly "clean up" and remove temporary or supporting resources after they have been used.
The product initializes data using hard-coded values that act as network resource identifiers.
The product initializes or sets a resource with a default that is intended to be changed by the administrator, but the default is not secure.
The product does not exit or otherwise modify its operation when security-relevant errors occur during initialization, such as when a configuration file has a format e...
Concepts
This view organizes weaknesses around concepts that are frequently used or encountered in software development. This includes all aspects of the software development l...
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