MITRE has shared this year's top 25 list of most common and dangerous weaknesses plaguing software throughout the previous two years. Software weaknes

MITRE updates list of top 25 most dangerous software bugs

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MITRE has shared this year's top 25 list of most common and dangerous weaknesses plaguing software throughout the previous two years.

Software weaknesses are flaws, bugs, vulnerabilities, and various other types of errors impacting a software solution's code, architecture, implementation, or design, potentially exposing systems it's running on to attacks.

MITRE developed the top 25 list using Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) data from 2019 and 2020 obtained from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) (roughly 27,000 CVEs).

"A scoring formula is used to calculate a ranked order of weaknesses that combines the frequency that a CWE is the root cause of a vulnerability with the projected severity of its exploitation," MITRE explained.

"This approach provides an objective look at what vulnerabilities are currently seen in the real world, creates a foundation of analytical rigor built on publicly reported vulnerabilities instead of subjective surveys and opinions, and makes the process easily repeatable."

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