| # Classify the weakness |
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| You are given the published description of one software vulnerability (a CVE). |
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| Decide which weakness class best describes it, choosing **exactly one** of the |
| 30 options below. These are CWE identifiers from MITRE's Common Weakness |
| Enumeration; the reference answer is the CWE that the assigning security |
| organisation recorded for that CVE in the National Vulnerability Database. |
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| Read `description.txt` in the case directory. |
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| ## Options |
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| CWE-120: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') |
| CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read |
| CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write |
| CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data |
| CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption |
| CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) |
| CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function |
| CWE-284: Improper Access Control |
| CWE-416: Use After Free |
| CWE-89: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') |
| CWE-287: Improper Authentication |
| CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound |
| CWE-20: Improper Input Validation |
| CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') |
| CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management |
| CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') |
| CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference |
| CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling |
| CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor |
| CWE-693: Protection Mechanism Failure |
| CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key |
| CWE-78: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') |
| CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization |
| CWE-121: Stack-based Buffer Overflow |
| CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition') |
| CWE-862: Missing Authorization |
| CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) |
| CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') |
| CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow |
| CWE-434: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type |
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| ## Output |
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| Print one line: |
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| ANSWER: CWE-79 |
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| The identifier must be one of the 30 listed above. Any other text is ignored. |
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| Optionally add a second line saying how likely you think that answer is to be |
| right, between 0 and 1: |
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| CONFIDENCE: 0.85 |
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| Confidence is recorded and reported, never scored. Leaving it out costs nothing; |
| giving it lets the report say whether your certainty tracks your accuracy. |
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