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MITRE Corp. and The SANS Institute, participants in what’s called the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) project organized by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Cybersecurity Division, have come out with a list of Top 25 Programming Errors in Software. <\/p>\n
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The Top 25 is organized into three high-level categories.<\/p>\n
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Category 1 – Insecure Interaction Between Components<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n These weaknesses are related to insecure ways in which data is sent and received between separate components, modules, programs, processes, threads, or systems. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n1) Improper Input Validation <\/p>\n Category 2 – Risky Resource Management<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The weaknesses in this category are related to ways in which software does not properly manage the creation, usage, transfer, or destruction of important system resources. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10) Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer <\/p>\n Category 3 – Porous Defenses<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The weaknesses in this category are related to defensive techniques that are often misused, abused, or just plain ignored. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n19) Improper Access Control (Authorization) <\/p>\n
\n2) Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
\n3) Failure to Preserve SQL Query Structure (aka ‘SQL Injection’)
\n4) Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure (aka ‘Cross-site Scripting’)
\n5) Failure to Preserve OS Command Structure (aka ‘OS Command Injection’)
\n6) Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
\n7) Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
\n8 ) \u00a0Race Condition
\n9) Error Message Information Leak <\/p>\n
\n11) External Control of Critical State Data
\n12) External Control of File Name or Path
\n13) Untrusted Search Path
\n14) Failure to Control Generation of Code (aka ‘Code Injection’)
\n15) Download of Code Without Integrity Check
\n16) Improper Resource Shutdown or Release
\n17) Improper Initialization
\n18) Incorrect Calculation <\/p>\n
\n20) Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm
\n21) Hard-Coded Password
\n22) Insecure Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
\n23) Use of Insufficiently Random Values
\n24) Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
\n25) Client-Side Enforcement of Server-Side Security <\/p>\n