CWE-372Incomplete Internal State Distinction

Abstraction: Base · CVEs in our corpus: 11

The product does not properly determine which state it is in, causing it to assume it is in state X when in fact it is in state Y, causing it to perform incorrect operations in a security-relevant manner.

Last updated: 14 October 2026 20:41 UTC

Control responseHuman-reviewed

Answering this weakness across the control lifecycle, from our framework cross-walks.

Prevent

Stop it (NIST 800-53 / CSF Protect)

ID.RA-01
AC-3 Access Enforcement
AC-12 Session Termination
SC-23 Session Authenticity

Detect

Catch it (CSF Detect / Respond)

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Harden

Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

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Validate

Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)

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NIST 800-53 r5 controls PROPOSED for this weakness (0)AI-assisted

These are model PROPOSALS, not graded mappings. They come from controls_to_cwe_proposals, which carries no grade field at all; across the CWE pages 1,540 of 1,722 such associations (89%) have never been graded by anything. The heading said “address” until 2026-09-29, which asserted a relationship the data does not carry. Graded cross-walks are on the framework map, not here.

Control	Title	Family	Why it addresses this CWE
No NIST controls proposed yet.

Top CVEs of this weakness type, ranked by Risk Priority

CVE	Risk	CVSS	EPSS	Published
`CVE-2024-22590`	6.9	9.1	0.0058	2024-05-28
`CVE-2023-31127`	6.6	9.0	0.0094	2023-05-08
`CVE-2020-27222`	6.0	7.5	0.0085	2021-02-03
`CVE-2023-4012`	5.8	7.5	0.0045	2023-08-07
`CVE-2021-25735`	5.7	6.5	0.0537	2021-09-06
`CVE-2026-41340`	5.2	6.5	0.0049	2026-04-23
`CVE-2026-41388`	5.2	6.5	0.0042	2026-04-28
`CVE-2026-41300`	5.1	6.5	0.0045	2026-04-21
`CVE-2023-36834`	5.0	6.5	0.0030	2023-07-14
`CVE-2026-84897`	4.4	5.3	0.0030	2026-10-07
`CVE-2023-54406`	3.9	4.9	0.0032	2026-10-12