CWE-227 (7PK - API Abuse) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.
This category represents one of the phyla in the Seven Pernicious Kingdoms vulnerability classification. It includes weaknesses that involve the software using an API in a manner contrary to its intended use. According to the authors of the Seven Pernicious Kingdoms, "An API is a contract between a caller and a callee. The most common forms of API misuse occurs when the caller does not honor its end of this contract. For example, if a program does not call chdir() after calling chroot(), it violates the contract that specifies how to change the active root directory in a secure fashion. Another good example of library abuse is expecting the callee to return trustworthy DNS information to the caller. In this case, the caller misuses the callee API by making certain assumptions about its behavior (that the return value can be used for authentication purposes). One can also violate the caller-callee contract from the other side. For example, if a coder subclasses SecureRandom and returns a non-random value, the contract is violated."
These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.
| CVE | Published | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2024-56442 | 2025-01-08 | Vulnerability of native APIs not being implemented in the NFC service module Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause features to perform abnormally. |
| CVE-2023-41293 | 2023-09-25 | Data security classification vulnerability in the DDMP module. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect confidentiality. |
| Date | Name | Version | Importance | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-07-01 | Eric Dalci | 1.0 | — | updated Time_of_Introduction |
| 2008-09-08 | CWE Content Team | 1.0 | — | updated Description, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings |
| 2009-05-27 | CWE Content Team | 1.4 | — | updated Name, Relationships |
| 2010-02-16 | CWE Content Team | 1.8 | — | updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings |
| 2010-12-13 | CWE Content Team | 1.11 | — | updated Description |
| 2011-03-29 | CWE Content Team | 1.12 | — | updated Description, Name |
| 2011-06-01 | CWE Content Team | 1.13 | — | updated Common_Consequences |
| 2011-06-27 | CWE Content Team | 2.0 | — | updated Common_Consequences |
| 2012-05-11 | CWE Content Team | 2.2 | — | updated Relationships |
| 2012-10-30 | CWE Content Team | 2.3 | — | updated Observed_Examples, Potential_Mitigations |
| 2013-07-17 | CWE Content Team | 2.5 | — | updated Relationships |
| 2014-07-30 | CWE Content Team | 2.8 | — | updated Relationships |
| 2017-01-19 | CWE Content Team | 2.10 | — | updated Relationships |
| 2017-05-03 | CWE Content Team | 2.11 | — | updated Observed_Examples, Related_Attack_Patterns |
| 2017-11-08 | CWE Content Team | 3.0 | — | updated Alternate_Terms, Common_Consequences, Description, Name, Observed_Examples, Potential_Mitigations, References, Related_Attack_Patterns, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings, Time_of_Introduction, Type |
| 2019-01-03 | CWE Content Team | 3.2 | — | updated Relationships |
| 2020-02-24 | CWE Content Team | 4.0 | — | updated Description, References, Relationships |
| 2023-04-27 | CWE Content Team | 4.11 | — | updated Mapping_Notes |
| 2023-06-29 | CWE Content Team | 4.12 | — | updated Mapping_Notes |