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The product does not follow certain coding rules for development, which can lead to resultant weaknesses or increase the severity of the associated vulnerabilities.
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CWE-710 (Improper Adherence to Coding Standards) is a pillar-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.
8 recorded CVEs are caused by CWE-710 (Improper Adherence to Coding Standards). The highest-severity and most recent are shown first. 2 new CWE-710 CVEs have been recorded so far in 2026 (1 in 2025).
Improper Adherence to Coding Standards in Splunk Enterprise
WEIDMUELLER: WLAN devices affected by privilege escalation vulnerability
Cisco Secure Adaptive Security Appliance Software, Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software and Secure Firewall Management Center Software Hardening Release - Coding Standards Vulnerabilities
Palantir Gotham UI bug that could lead to incorrect data classification
What can happen when CWE-710 is exploited.
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Affects: Other
Typically introduced during these phases of the software lifecycle.
Practical mitigations for CWE-710, grouped by where in the lifecycle they apply.
Select and require coding standards. Ensure that they include security concerns.
Closely follow coding standards, possibly enforcing them upon checkin of the code into a source control system or with periodic analyses.
Automated tools can detect violations of many code standards.
Common questions about CWE-710.
Weakness data is sourced from the MITRE CWE catalog (v4.20). CVE associations are aggregated and kept current by RadicalNotion.AI.
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