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CWE CATEGORY: OWASP Top Ten 2007 Category A7 - Broken Authentication and Session Management

Category ID: 718
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 A7 category in the OWASP Top Ten 2007.
Membership
Nature Type ID Name
MemberOf ViewView - a subset of CWE entries that provides a way of examining CWE content. The two main view structures are Slices (flat lists) and Graphs (containing relationships between entries). 629 Weaknesses in OWASP Top Ten (2007)
HasMember ClassClass - a weakness that is described in a very abstract fashion, typically independent of any specific language or technology. More specific than a Pillar Weakness, but more general than a Base Weakness. Class level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 1 or 2 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, and resource. 287 Improper Authentication
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. 301 Reflection Attack in an Authentication Protocol
HasMember ClassClass - a weakness that is described in a very abstract fashion, typically independent of any specific language or technology. More specific than a Pillar Weakness, but more general than a Base Weakness. Class level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 1 or 2 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, and resource. 522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials
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.
References
[REF-237] OWASP. "Top 10 2007-Broken Authentication and Session Management". 2007. <https://web.archive.org/web/20160319231145/http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2007-A7>. URL validated: 2025年08月04日.
Content History
Submissions
Submission Date Submitter Organization
2008年09月09日
(CWE 1.0, 2008年09月09日)
CWE Content Team MITRE
Modifications
Modification Date Modifier Organization
2009年12月28日 CWE Content Team MITRE
updated Related_Attack_Patterns
2017年11月08日 CWE Content Team MITRE
updated Related_Attack_Patterns
2023年04月27日 CWE Content Team MITRE
updated Mapping_Notes
2023年06月29日 CWE Content Team MITRE
updated Mapping_Notes
2025年09月09日
(CWE 4.18, 2025年09月09日)
CWE Content Team MITRE
updated References
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