CWE-1076: Insufficient Adherence to Expected Conventions
The product's architecture, source code, design, documentation, or other artifact does not follow required conventions.
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Overview
CWE-1076 (Insufficient Adherence to Expected Conventions) is a class-level software weakness catalogued by MITRE in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE). It describes a recurring type of mistake that can lead to exploitable security vulnerabilities.
Real-world CVEs
2 recorded CVEs are caused by CWE-1076 (Insufficient Adherence to Expected Conventions). The highest-severity and most recent are shown first.
Common consequences
What can happen when CWE-1076 is exploited.
Reduce Maintainability
Affects: Other
This issue makes it more difficult to maintain the product, which indirectly affects security by making it more difficult or time-consuming to find and/or fix vulnerabilities. It also might make it easier to introduce vulnerabilities.