Glossary: Physical and Wireless Vectors, and Vulnerabilities

CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration)

Also written: CWE

MITRE's public list of types of software weakness. For example, TOCTOU is CWE-367 and hardcoded credentials are CWE-798.

Where the book teaches it

Chapter 3: Ports, applications, code and the operating system

Related terms

CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures)TOCTOU (time-of-check to time-of-use)Hardcoded secret