CWE-628 5 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-628: Function Call with Incorrectly Specified Arguments

Overview

CWE-628 (Function Call with Incorrectly Specified Arguments) 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 calls a function, procedure, or routine with arguments that are not correctly specified, leading to always-incorrect behavior 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-2026-25634 2026-02-06 iccDEV provides a set of libraries and tools that allow for the interaction, manipulation, and application of ICC color management profiles. Prior to 2.3.1.4, SrcPixel and DestPixel stack buffers over…
CVE-2026-21503 2026-01-07 iccDEV provides a set of libraries and tools that allow for the interaction, manipulation, and application of ICC color management profiles. Prior to version 2.3.1.2, iccDEV has undefined behavior due…
CVE-2025-0325 2025-06-02 A Guard Tour VAPIX API parameter allowed the use of arbitrary values and can be incorrectly called, allowing an attacker to block access to the guard tour configuration page in the web interface of th…
CVE-2019-14844 2019-09-26 A flaw was found in, Fedora versions of krb5 from 1.16.1 to, including 1.17.x, in the way a Kerberos client could crash the KDC by sending one of the RFC 4556 "enctypes". A remote unauthenticated user…
CVE-2019-7303 2019-04-23 A vulnerability in the seccomp filters of Canonical snapd before version 2.37.4 allows a strict mode snap to insert characters into a terminal on a 64-bit host. The seccomp rules were generated to mat…

Previous names

  • Incorrectly Specified Arguments (2008-04-11)

Content submission

Name
CWE Content Team
Organization
MITRE
Date
2007-05-07
Version
Draft 6

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Description, Relationships, Other_Notes, Weakness_Ordinalities
2008-11-24 CWE Content Team 1.1 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2009-10-29 CWE Content Team 1.6 updated Detection_Factors, Other_Notes, Weakness_Ordinalities
2010-02-16 CWE Content Team 1.8 updated Detection_Factors
2010-06-21 CWE Content Team 1.9 updated Description
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 Common_Consequences, Demonstrative_Examples, Relationships
2012-10-30 CWE Content Team 2.3 updated Potential_Mitigations
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Applicable_Platforms, Taxonomy_Mappings
2019-01-03 CWE Content Team 3.2 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Relationships
2021-03-15 CWE Content Team 4.4 updated Detection_Factors, Relationships
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 Relationships
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