CWE - CWE-1372: CWE CATEGORY: ICS Supply Chain: OT Counterfeit and Malicious Corruption (4.18)

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CWE CATEGORY: ICS Supply Chain: OT Counterfeit and Malicious Corruption

Category ID: 1372

Vulnerability Mapping: PROHIBITED This CWE ID must not be used to map to real-world vulnerabilities

Summary

Weaknesses in this category are related to the "OT Counterfeit and Malicious Corruption" category from the SEI ETF "Categories of Security Vulnerabilities in ICS" as published in March 2022: "In ICS, when this procurement process results in a vulnerability or component damage, it can have grid impacts or cause physical harm." Note: members of this category include "Nearest IT Neighbor" recommendations from the report, as well as suggestions by the CWE team. These relationships are likely to change in future CWE versions.

Membership

Nature	Type	ID	Name
MemberOf	CategoryCategory - a CWE entry that contains a set of other entries that share a common characteristic.	1361	ICS Supply Chain
HasMember	PillarPillar - a weakness that is the most abstract type of weakness and represents a theme for all class/base/variant weaknesses related to it. A Pillar is different from a Category as a Pillar is still technically a type of weakness that describes a mistake, while a Category represents a common characteristic used to group related things.	284	Improper Access Control
HasMember	CategoryCategory - a CWE entry that contains a set of other entries that share a common characteristic.	1198	Privilege Separation and Access Control Issues
HasMember	BaseBase - a weakness that is still mostly independent of a resource or technology, but with sufficient details to provide specific methods for detection and prevention. Base level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 2 or 3 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, technology, language, and resource.	1231	Improper Prevention of Lock Bit Modification
HasMember	BaseBase - a weakness that is still mostly independent of a resource or technology, but with sufficient details to provide specific methods for detection and prevention. Base level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 2 or 3 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, technology, language, and resource.	1233	Security-Sensitive Hardware Controls with Missing Lock Bit Protection
HasMember	BaseBase - a weakness that is still mostly independent of a resource or technology, but with sufficient details to provide specific methods for detection and prevention. Base level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 2 or 3 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, technology, language, and resource.	1278	Missing Protection Against Hardware Reverse Engineering Using Integrated Circuit (IC) Imaging Techniques

Vulnerability Mapping Notes

Usage: PROHIBITED

(this CWE ID must not be used to map to real-world vulnerabilities)

Reason: Category

Rationale:

This entry is 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.

Comments:

See member weaknesses of this category.

Notes

Relationship

Relationships in this category are not authoritative and subject to change. See Maintenance notes.

Maintenance

This category might be subject to CWE Scope Exclusion SCOPE.HUMANPROC (Human/organizational process).

Maintenance

This category was created in CWE 4.7 to facilitate and illuminate discussion about weaknesses in ICS with [REF-1248] as a starting point. After the release of CWE 4.9 in October 2022, this has been under active review by members of the "Boosting CWE" subgroup of the CWE-CAPEC ICS/OT Special Interest Group (SIG). Relationships are still subject to change. In addition, there may be some issues in [REF-1248] that are outside of the current scope of CWE, which will require consultation with many CWE stakeholders to resolve.

References

[REF-1248] Securing Energy Infrastructure Executive Task Force (SEI ETF). "Categories of Security Vulnerabilities in ICS". OT Counterfeit and Malicious Corruption. 2022年03月09日. <https://secureenergy.inl.gov/content/uploads/27/2024/12/SEI-ETF-NCSV-TPT-Categories-of-Security-Vulnerabilities-ICS-v1_03-09-22.pdf>. URL validated: 2025年08月04日.

Content History

Submissions
Submission Date	Submitter	Organization
2022年03月09日 (CWE 4.7, 2022年04月28日)	New Categories of Security Vulnerabilities (NCSV) Technical Project Team (TPT)	Securing Energy Infrastructure Executive Task Force
2022年03月09日 (CWE 4.7, 2022年04月28日)
Modifications
Modification Date	Modifier	Organization
2023年01月31日	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2023年01月31日	updated Description, Maintenance_Notes, Relationship_Notes
2023年04月27日	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2023年04月27日	updated Mapping_Notes, Relationships
2023年06月29日	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2023年06月29日	updated Mapping_Notes
2025年09月09日 (CWE 4.18, 2025年09月09日)	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2025年09月09日 (CWE 4.18, 2025年09月09日)	updated References

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