{"@ID": "1432", "@Name": "Weaknesses in the 2025 CWE Most Important Hardware Weaknesses List", "@Type": "Graph", "@Status": "Stable", "Objective": "CWE entries in this view are listed in\n            the 2025 CWE Most Important Hardware Weaknesses List, as\n            determined by the Hardware CWE Special Interest Group (HW\n            CWE SIG). The 2025 MIHW aims to drive awareness of\n            critical hardware weaknesses and provide the cybersecurity\n            community with practical guidance to prevent security\n            issues at the source. By combining advanced data analysis\n            with expert consensus, the list helps organizations\n            prioritize mitigations, strengthen design practices, and\n            make informed decisions throughout the hardware\n            lifecycle.", "Audience": {"Stakeholder": [{"Type": "Hardware Designers", "Description": "Address key security weaknesses during hardware design process."}, {"Type": "Product Customers", "Description": "Evaluate products for critical security weaknesses and enforce supplier security standards."}, {"Type": "Applied Researchers", "Description": "Investigate selected weaknesses and develop new mitigation strategies."}, {"Type": "Academic Researchers", "Description": "Identify gaps in foundational security models to develop advanced approaches."}, {"Type": "Assessment Teams", "Description": "Focus testing on high-priority hardware security weaknesses."}, {"Type": "Assessment Tool Vendors", "Description": "Improve automated tools to detect critical security weaknesses."}, {"Type": "Educators", "Description": "Structure course content and research projects around hardware security weaknesses."}]}, "Members": {"Has_Member": [{"@CWE_ID": "226", "@View_ID": "1432"}, {"@CWE_ID": "1189", "@View_ID": "1432"}, {"@CWE_ID": "1191", "@View_ID": "1432"}, {"@CWE_ID": "1234", "@View_ID": "1432"}, {"@CWE_ID": "1247", "@View_ID": "1432"}, {"@CWE_ID": "1256", "@View_ID": "1432"}, {"@CWE_ID": "1260", "@View_ID": "1432"}, {"@CWE_ID": "1262", "@View_ID": "1432"}, {"@CWE_ID": "1300", "@View_ID": "1432"}, {"@CWE_ID": "1421", "@View_ID": "1432"}, {"@CWE_ID": "1423", "@View_ID": "1432"}, {"@CWE_ID": "1433", "@View_ID": "1432"}]}, "References": {"Reference": [{"@External_Reference_ID": "REF-1480"}, {"@External_Reference_ID": "REF-1483"}]}, "Mapping_Notes": {"Usage": "Prohibited", "Rationale": "This entry is a View. Views are not weaknesses and therefore inappropriate to describe the root causes of vulnerabilities.", "Comments": "Use this View or other Views to search and navigate for the appropriate weakness.", "Reasons": {"Reason": {"@Type": "View"}}}, "Content_History": {"Submission": {"Submission_Name": "CWE Content Team", "Submission_Organization": "MITRE", "Submission_Date": "2025-09-06", "Submission_Version": "4.18", "Submission_ReleaseDate": "2025-09-09"}, "Contribution": {"@Type": "Content", "Contribution_Name": "2025 MIHW Working Group", "Contribution_Date": "2025-08-20", "Contribution_Version": "4.18", "Contribution_ReleaseDate": "2025-09-09", "Contribution_Comment": "Helped the CWE Team to define methodology and scoring algorithms; performed data analysis and mappings for Weakness Data Collection (WDC); and/or participated in Expert Poll 1 (EP1) or Expert Poll 2 (EP2)."}}, "entry_type": "View"}