CWE-1118: Insufficient Documentation of Error Handling Techniques
Description
The documentation does not sufficiently describe the techniques that are used for error handling, exception processing, or similar mechanisms.
Documentation may need to cover error handling techniques at multiple layers, such as module, executable, compilable code unit, or callable.
- Abstraction
- BaseA weakness specific enough to point to detection and prevention methods.
- Likelihood of exploit
- Not rated by MITRE
- Status
- Incomplete
Common consequences
- Other
Reduce Maintainability
Related weaknesses
Parent weaknesses
CAPEC attack patterns that exploit it
CWE 4.20 links no CAPEC attack pattern to this weakness.