CWE
Common Weakness Enumeration. A catalogue of the underlying defect class, for example CWE-89 for SQL injection, independent of any particular product or version.
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- Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Vulnerability
More glossary terms
- CVE
- Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures. A public identifier such as CVE-2021-44228 assigned to a specific vulnerability, giving everyone one unambiguous...
- CVSS
- Common Vulnerability Scoring System. A 0 to 10 severity score built from exploitability and impact metrics, used to prioritise patching alongside cont...
- Indicator of Compromise (IoC)
- A forensic artefact that suggests a system was breached: a file hash, a suspicious domain, an unusual registry key or a known-bad IP address.
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Injecting script into a page so it runs in another user's browser session, enabling cookie theft, page rewriting and credential capture.
- Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
- Coercing the server into making a request to a destination of the attacker's choosing, typically to reach internal services or cloud metadata endpoint...