Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-3

Grouping Prohibited

DEPRECATED: Technology-specific Environment Issues

Status: Deprecated

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This category has been deprecated. It was originally intended as a "catch-all" for environment issues for technologies that did not have their own CWE, but it introduced unnecessary depth and complexity to the Development View (CWE-699).

Grouping entries organize the catalogue and should not be used to map the root cause of a vulnerability.

Mapping guidance

This CWE has been deprecated. It is also a Category. Using categories for mapping has been discouraged since 2019. Categories are informal organizational groupings of weaknesses that can help CWE users with data aggregation, navigation, and browsing. However, they are not weaknesses in themselves.

See the summary, which might have suggestions for other CWEs to consider.

Content history
Submission: CWE Community · 2006-07-19 · CWE Draft 3

Submitted by members of the CWE community to extend early CWE versions

Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2008-09-08 · CWE 1.0

updated Relationships

Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2017-01-19 · CWE 2.10

updated Maintenance_Notes, Relationships

Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2017-11-08 · CWE 3.0

updated Description, Maintenance_Notes, Name, Type

Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2023-06-29 · CWE 4.12

updated Mapping_Notes

Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2026-10-28 · CWE 5.0

updated Mapping_Notes

0 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.

No vulnerabilities reference this CWE.

No mitigation information available for this CWE.

No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.

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