Truncation of Security-relevant Information

The product truncates the display, recording, or processing of security-relevant information in a way that can obscure the source or nature of an attack.


See Also

Comprehensive Categorization: Protection Mechanism Failure

Weaknesses in this category are related to protection mechanism failure.

Audit / Logging Errors

Weaknesses in this category are related to audit-based components of a software system. Frequently these deal with logging user activities in order to identify undesir...

SFP Secondary Cluster: Information Loss

This category identifies Software Fault Patterns (SFPs) within the Information Loss cluster.

Comprehensive CWE Dictionary

This view (slice) covers all the elements in CWE.

CWE Cross-section

This view contains a selection of weaknesses that represent the variety of weaknesses that are captured in CWE, at a level of abstraction that is likely to be useful t...

Weaknesses Introduced During Implementation

This view (slice) lists weaknesses that can be introduced during implementation.


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