Security Resilience

CWEs

Which weakness types show up in our CVE corpus, and which controls address them?

This index covers all 769 CWEs cited by at least one CVE across the NVD records we ingest — split into frequent (440, cited ≥10 times) and rare (329, 1–9 times). Frequent weaknesses link to a detail page with the NIST 800-53 r5 controls that address them (LLM-proposed) and their top CVEs ranked by Risk Priority; rarer ones link out to MITRE. Below the search, the blind spot — 185 live weaknesses no CVE has ever been tagged with.

368,150CVE→CWE tags in the corpus
769distinct weaknesses cited (≥1 CVE)
62.1%of all tags land on just the top 20 CWEs
185live weaknesses no CVE has ever cited

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The blind spot: 185 weaknesses no CVE reports

These are live (non-deprecated) weakness types in the MITRE catalogue that no CVE in our corpus has ever been tagged with. Many are design-level weaknesses NVD analysts rarely reach for — the kind of systemic flaw that never gets its own advisory. Each links to MITRE's canonical definition.

Show all 185 never-cited weaknesses

Class-level 7

Base-level 95

Variant-level 83

Catalogue summary

Mapped weaknesses by abstraction level. Coverage is heavily concentrated: 62.1% of all 368,150 CVE→CWE tags land on just the top 20 CWEs. A further 14,397 tags point at 43 retired category ids MITRE prohibits for mapping (e.g. CWE-264, CWE-399) — those CVEs carry no usable weakness mapping and are excluded here.

Abstraction levelCWEs
Base432
Variant213
Class107
Pillar10
Compound7