CWE: The Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a formal list of software weakness types created to Serve as a common language for describing software security weaknesses in architecture, design, or code. Reference: http://cwe.mitre.org/about/index.html CVE: CVE is a list of information security vulnerabilities and exposures that aims to provide common names for publicly known problems. Reference: http://cve.mitre.org/about/terminology.html http://cve.mitre.org/about/index.html Difference (CWE vs CVE): Software vulnerability is a collection of one or more weaknesses that contain the possible way for an attacker to perform unintended behavior. So a weakness is a patterns or behaviors, a group of weakness or a single weakness may help to perform unintended behavior. In other word, When the weakness can be used by an attacker against the software then that's a vulnerability. For example , If an address parameter in register page is not properly valid...
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