Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-1194

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Hardware Design

Status: Draft

This view organizes weaknesses around concepts that are frequently used or encountered in hardware design. Accordingly, this view can align closely with the perspectives of designers, manufacturers, educators, and assessment vendors. It provides a variety of categories that are intended to simplify navigation, browsing, and mapping.

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

Mapping guidance

This entry is a View. Views are not weaknesses and therefore inappropriate to describe the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Use this View or other Views to search and navigate for the appropriate weakness.

Relationships and members
Has Member: CWE-1195 · View CWE-1194
Has Member: CWE-1196 · View CWE-1194
Has Member: CWE-1197 · View CWE-1194
Has Member: CWE-1198 · View CWE-1194
Has Member: CWE-1199 · View CWE-1194
Has Member: CWE-1201 · View CWE-1194
Has Member: CWE-1202 · View CWE-1194
Has Member: CWE-1203 · View CWE-1194
Has Member: CWE-1205 · View CWE-1194
Has Member: CWE-1206 · View CWE-1194
Has Member: CWE-1207 · View CWE-1194
Has Member: CWE-1208 · View CWE-1194
Has Member: CWE-1388 · View CWE-1194
Notes

Relationship

This view attempts to present hardware weaknesses in a simple and intuitive way. As such it uses a single level of abstraction. The same category could contain weaknesses that have parent/child relationships within View-1000. By exploring View-1000 relationships for the weaknesses that are included, one can find deeper relationships between some hardware weaknesses.

Other

The top level categories in this view represent commonly understood areas/terms within hardware design, and are meant to aid the user in identifying potential related weaknesses. It is possible for the same weakness to exist within multiple different categories.

Content history
Submission: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2019-12-27 · CWE 4.0
Contribution: · Hardware CWE Special Interest Group (HW CWE SIG) · 2026-07-17 · CWE 5.0

Discussed pros and cons of deeper versus shallower trees for this view, ultimately choosing the shallower tree.

Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2022-06-28 · CWE 4.8

updated Relationships

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 Other_Notes, Relationship_Notes

0 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.

No vulnerabilities reference this CWE.

No mitigation information available for this CWE.

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