CWE-544 7 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-544: Missing Standardized Error Handling Mechanism

Overview

CWE-544 (Missing Standardized Error Handling Mechanism) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.

Security impact
Security impact: Depends on product and context; use CVE records, severity scores, and MITRE guidance to prioritize.

Description

The product does not use a standardized method for handling errors throughout the code, which might introduce inconsistent error handling and resultant weaknesses.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language Not Language-Specific Undetermined

Related CVEs in this database

These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.

CVE Published Summary
CVE-2025-11750 2025-10-22 In langgenius/dify-web version 1.6.0, the authentication mechanism reveals the existence of user accounts by returning different error messages for non-existent and existing accounts. Specifically, wh…
CVE-2024-41768 2025-01-04 IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing 7.0.2 and 7.0.3 could allow a remote attacker to cause an unhandled SSL exception which could leave the connection in an unexpected or insecure stat…
CVE-2024-47971 2024-10-07 Improper error handling in firmware of some SSD DC Products may allow an attacker to enable denial of service.
CVE-2021-47482 2024-05-22 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: batman-adv: fix error handling Syzbot reported ODEBUG warning in batadv_nc_mesh_free(). The problem was in wrong error handli…
CVE-2023-6599 2023-12-08 Missing Standardized Error Handling Mechanism in GitHub repository microweber/microweber prior to 2.0.
CVE-2023-29105 2023-05-09 A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC Cloud Connect 7 CC712 (All versions >= V2.0 < V2.1), SIMATIC Cloud Connect 7 CC712 (All versions < V2.1), SIMATIC Cloud Connect 7 CC716 (All versions >= …
CVE-2020-5359 2020-12-16 Dell BSAFE Micro Edition Suite, versions prior to 4.5, are vulnerable to an Unchecked Return Value Vulnerability. An unauthenticated remote attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability to mod…

Previous names

  • Missing Error Handling Mechanism (2009-03-10)
  • Failure to Use a Standardized Error Handling Mechanism (2010-12-13)

Content submission

Name
Anonymous Tool Vendor (under NDA)
Date
2006-07-19
Version
Draft 3

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2008-07-01 Eric Dalci 1.0 updated Potential_Mitigations, Time_of_Introduction
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Description, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2008-10-14 CWE Content Team 1.0.1 updated Relationships
2008-11-24 CWE Content Team 1.1 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2009-03-10 CWE Content Team 1.3 updated Description, Name, Relationships
2009-10-29 CWE Content Team 1.6 updated Potential_Mitigations, Time_of_Introduction
2010-12-13 CWE Content Team 1.11 updated Name
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences
2011-06-27 CWE Content Team 2.0 updated Common_Consequences
2011-09-13 CWE Content Team 2.1 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Relationships
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Modes_of_Introduction, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Description
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Applicable_Platforms, Weakness_Ordinalities
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