CWE-388 (7PK - Errors) 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 occur when an application does not properly handle errors that occur during processing. According to the authors of the Seven Pernicious Kingdoms, "Errors and error handling represent a class of API. Errors related to error handling are so common that they deserve a special kingdom of their own. As with 'API Abuse,' there are two ways to introduce an error-related security vulnerability: the most common one is handling errors poorly (or not at all). The second is producing errors that either give out too much information (to possible attackers) or are difficult to handle."
These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.
| CVE | Published | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-20168 | 2026-05-06 | A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco IoT Field Network Director could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with low privileges to retrieve files that they do not have perm… |
| CVE-2026-20006 | 2026-03-04 | A vulnerability in the TLS cryptography functionality of the Snort 3 Detection Engine of Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause th… |
| CVE-2023-20227 | 2023-09-27 | A vulnerability in the Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected de… |
| CVE-2020-3512 | 2020-09-24 | A vulnerability in the PROFINET handler for Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) messages of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a c… |
| CVE-2020-3510 | 2020-09-24 | A vulnerability in the Umbrella Connector component of Cisco IOS XE Software for Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a reload, resulting in a… |
| CVE-2020-3509 | 2020-09-24 | A vulnerability in the DHCP message handler of Cisco IOS XE Software for Cisco cBR-8 Converged Broadband Routers could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the supervisor to crash, which… |
| CVE-2019-2237 | 2019-07-25 | Failure in taking appropriate action to handle the error case If keypad gpio deactivation fails leads to silent failure scenario and subsequent logic gets executed everytime in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdr… |
| CVE-2019-13046 | 2019-06-29 | linker/linker.c in ToaruOS through 1.10.9 has insecure LD_LIBRARY_PATH handling in setuid applications. |
| CVE-2019-12380 | 2019-05-28 | **DISPUTED** An issue was discovered in the efi subsystem in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. phys_efi_set_virtual_address_map in arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c and efi_call_phys_prolog in arch/x86/platfo… |
| CVE-2019-1750 | 2019-03-28 | A vulnerability in the Easy Virtual Switching System (VSS) of Cisco IOS XE Software on Catalyst 4500 Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause the switches to reload. … |
| CVE-2016-9778 | 2019-01-16 | An error in handling certain queries can cause an assertion failure when a server is using the nxdomain-redirect feature to cover a zone for which it is also providing authoritative service. A vulnera… |
| CVE-2018-6346 | 2018-12-31 | A potential denial-of-service issue in the Proxygen handling of invalid HTTP2 priority settings (specifically a circular dependency). This affects Proxygen prior to v2018.12.31.00. |
| CVE-2018-1002105 | 2018-12-05 | In all Kubernetes versions prior to v1.10.11, v1.11.5, and v1.12.3, incorrect handling of error responses to proxied upgrade requests in the kube-apiserver allowed specially crafted requests to establ… |
| CVE-2018-0415 | 2018-08-15 | A vulnerability in the implementation of Extensible Authentication Protocol over LAN (EAPOL) functionality in Cisco Small Business 100 Series Wireless Access Points and Cisco Small Business 300 Series… |
| CVE-2018-10624 | 2018-08-01 | In Johnson Controls Metasys System Versions 8.0 and prior and BCPro (BCM) all versions prior to 3.0.2, this vulnerability results from improper error handling in HTTP-based communications with the ser… |
| CVE-2017-5401 | 2018-06-11 | A crash triggerable by web content in which an "ErrorResult" references unassigned memory due to a logic error. The resulting crash may be exploitable. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 52, Firefox… |
| CVE-2017-16014 | 2018-06-04 | Http-proxy is a proxying library. Because of the way errors are handled in versions before 0.7.0, an attacker that forces an error can crash the server, causing a denial of service. |
| CVE-2016-10466 | 2018-04-18 | In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9625, MDM9635M, MDM9640, MDM9645, MDM9650, MDM9655, MSM8909W, SD 210… |
| CVE-2016-10414 | 2018-04-18 | In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Small Cell SoC, Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon Mobile, and Snapdragon Wear FSM9055, IPQ4019, MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9625, MDM9… |
| CVE-2015-9218 | 2018-04-18 | In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, SD 450… |
| Date | Name | Version | Importance | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-07-01 | Sean Eidemiller | 1.0 | — | added/updated demonstrative examples |
| 2008-09-08 | CWE Content Team | 1.0 | — | updated Common_Consequences, Description, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings |
| 2008-10-14 | CWE Content Team | 1.0.1 | — | updated Description |
| 2009-03-10 | CWE Content Team | 1.3 | — | updated Relationships |
| 2009-10-29 | CWE Content Team | 1.6 | — | updated Common_Consequences |
| 2010-02-16 | CWE Content Team | 1.8 | — | updated Relationships |
| 2010-04-05 | CWE Content Team | 1.8.1 | — | updated Related_Attack_Patterns |
| 2011-06-01 | CWE Content Team | 1.13 | — | updated Common_Consequences |
| 2012-05-11 | CWE Content Team | 2.2 | — | updated References |
| 2015-12-07 | CWE Content Team | 2.9 | — | updated Relationships |
| 2017-01-19 | CWE Content Team | 2.10 | — | updated Relationships |
| 2017-11-08 | CWE Content Team | 3.0 | — | updated Common_Consequences, Demonstrative_Examples, Description, Name, Potential_Mitigations, References, Related_Attack_Patterns, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings |
| 2018-03-27 | CWE Content Team | 3.1 | — | updated Relationships |
| 2020-02-24 | CWE Content Team | 4.0 | — | updated References |
| 2023-06-29 | CWE Content Team | 4.12 | — | updated Mapping_Notes |