CWE-392: Missing Report of Error Condition

Description

The product encounters an error but does not provide a status code or return value to indicate that an error has occurred.

Submission Date :

July 19, 2006, midnight

Modification Date :

2023-10-26 00:00:00+00:00

Organization :

MITRE
Example Vulnerable Codes

Example - 1

In the following snippet from a doPost() servlet method, the server returns "200 OK" (default) even if an error occurs.


// // Something that may throw an exception.// 
...
logger.error("Caught: " + t.toString());return;try {} catch (Throwable t) {}

Related Weaknesses

This table shows the weaknesses and high level categories that are related to this weakness. These relationships are defined to give an overview of the different insight to similar items that may exist at higher and lower levels of abstraction.

CWE-684: Incorrect Provision of Specified Functionality
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CWE-703: Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions
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CWE-755: Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
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