CWE-573: Improper Following of Specification by Caller

Description

The product does not follow or incorrectly follows the specifications as required by the implementation language, environment, framework, protocol, or platform.

Submission Date :

Dec. 15, 2006, midnight

Modification Date :

2023-06-29 00:00:00+00:00

Organization :

MITRE
Extended Description

When leveraging external functionality, such as an API, it is important that the caller does so in accordance with the requirements of the external functionality or else unintended behaviors may result, possibly leaving the system vulnerable to any number of exploits.

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-103: Struts: Incomplete validate() Method Definition
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CWE-104: Struts: Form Bean Does Not Extend Validation Class
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CWE-243: Creation of chroot Jail Without Changing Working Directory
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CWE-253: Incorrect Check of Function Return Value
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CWE-296: Improper Following of a Certificate's Chain of Trust
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CWE-304: Missing Critical Step in Authentication
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CWE-325: Missing Cryptographic Step
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CWE-329: Generation of Predictable IV with CBC Mode
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CWE-358: Improperly Implemented Security Check for Standard
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CWE-475: Undefined Behavior for Input to API
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CWE-568: finalize() Method Without super.finalize()
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CWE-577: EJB Bad Practices: Use of Sockets
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CWE-578: EJB Bad Practices: Use of Class Loader
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CWE-579: J2EE Bad Practices: Non-serializable Object Stored in Session
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CWE-580: clone() Method Without super.clone()
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CWE-581: Object Model Violation: Just One of Equals and Hashcode Defined
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CWE-628: Function Call with Incorrectly Specified Arguments
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CWE-675: Multiple Operations on Resource in Single-Operation Context
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CWE-694: Use of Multiple Resources with Duplicate Identifier
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CWE-695: Use of Low-Level Functionality
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CWE-710: Improper Adherence to Coding Standards
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