CWE-3 – Technology-specific Environment Issues (Deprecated) | Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Overview

CWE-3 is a deprecated classification in the CWE framework. It remains in the catalog for historical hierarchy and CVE traceability.

Security impact: Security impact: Low / none for active exploitation (deprecated catalog entry).
Historical note: Historical note: MITRE periodically reorganizes the CWE tree; prefer current, non-deprecated weaknesses for threat modeling.

Description

This category has been deprecated. It was originally intended as a "catch-all" for environment issues for technologies that did not have their own CWE, but it introduced unnecessary depth and complexity to the Development View (CWE-699).

Previous names

Technology-specific Environment Issues (2017-11-08)

Content submission

Name: CWE Community
Date: 2006-07-19
Version: Draft 3
Comment: Submitted by members of the CWE community to extend early CWE versions

Content modifications

Date	Name	Version	Importance	Comment
2008-09-08	CWE Content Team	1.0	—	updated Relationships
2017-01-19	CWE Content Team	2.10	—	updated Maintenance_Notes, Relationships
2017-11-08	CWE Content Team	3.0	—	updated Description, Maintenance_Notes, Name, Type
2023-06-29	CWE Content Team	4.12	—	updated Mapping_Notes