CWE-710 6 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-710: Improper Adherence to Coding Standards

Overview

CWE-710 (Improper Adherence to Coding Standards) 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 follow certain coding rules for development, which can lead to resultant weaknesses or increase the severity of the associated vulnerabilities.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language Not Language-Specific Undetermined
technology Not Technology-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-2025-0007 2025-11-24 Insufficient validation within Xilinx Run Time framework could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges from user space to kernel space, potentially compromising confidentiality, integrity, and/o…
CVE-2023-30961 2023-09-27 Palantir Gotham was found to be vulnerable to a bug where under certain circumstances, the frontend could have applied an incorrect classification to a newly created property or link.
CVE-2021-27501 2022-04-01 Philips Vue PACS versions 12.2.x.x and prior does not follow certain coding rules for development, which can lead to resultant weaknesses or increase the severity of the associated vulnerabilities.
CVE-2021-33528 2021-06-25 In Weidmueller Industrial WLAN devices in multiple versions an exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the iw_console functionality. A specially crafted menu selection string can caus…
CVE-2020-1613 2020-04-08 A vulnerability in the BGP FlowSpec implementation may cause a Juniper Networks Junos OS device to terminate an established BGP session upon receiving a specific BGP FlowSpec advertisement. The BGP NO…
CVE-2020-1603 2020-01-15 Specific IPv6 packets sent by clients processed by the Routing Engine (RE) are improperly handled. These IPv6 packets are designed to be blocked by the RE from egressing the RE. Instead, the RE allows…

Previous names

  • Coding Standards Violation (2017-11-08)

Content submission

Name
CWE Content Team
Organization
MITRE
Date
2008-09-09
Version
1.0

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2009-03-10 CWE Content Team 1.3 updated Relationships
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Relationships
2012-10-30 CWE Content Team 2.3 updated Potential_Mitigations
2013-02-21 CWE Content Team 2.4 updated Relationships
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships
2017-01-19 CWE Content Team 2.10 updated Relationships
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Applicable_Platforms, Name, Relationships
2019-01-03 CWE Content Team 3.2 updated Relationships
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Applicable_Platforms, Relationships, Type
2022-04-28 CWE Content Team 4.7 updated Relationships
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
2024-02-29 CWE Content Team 4.14 updated Relationships
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Detection_Factors, Potential_Mitigations, Weakness_Ordinalities
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