CERT C++ Secure Coding Section 10 - Environment (ENV)
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 are related to rules in the Environment (ENV) section of the CERT C++ Secure Coding Standard. Since not all rules map to specific weaknesses, this category may be incomplete.
Weaknesses
Duplicate keys in associative lists can lead to non-unique keys being mistaken for an error.
The product constructs a string for a command to be executed by a separate component in another control sphere, but it does not properly delimit the intended arguments...
The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes...
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer.
The product does not properly return control flow to the proper location after it has completed a task or detected an unusual condition.
The product uses a protection mechanism that relies on the existence or values of an input, but the input can be modified by an untrusted actor in a way that bypasses ...
The product searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the product's direct control.
Concepts
Deprecated or Obsolete
CWE entries in this view (graph) are fully or partially eliminated by following the SEI CERT C++ Coding Standard, as published in 2016. This view is no longer being ac...
See Also
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