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CWE CATEGORY: OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities

Category ID: 937
Vulnerability Mapping: PROHIBITED This CWE ID must not be used to map to real-world vulnerabilities
+ Summary
Weaknesses in this category are related to the A9 category in the OWASP Top Ten 2013.
+ Membership
Nature Type ID Name
MemberOf ViewView - a subset of CWE entries that provides a way of examining CWE content. The two main view structures are Slices (flat lists) and Graphs (containing relationships between entries). 928 Weaknesses in OWASP Top Ten (2013)
MemberOf CategoryCategory - a CWE entry that contains a set of other entries that share a common characteristic. 1352 OWASP Top Ten 2021 Category A06:2021 - Vulnerable and Outdated Components
+ Vulnerability Mapping Notes

Usage: PROHIBITED

(this CWE ID must not be used to map to real-world vulnerabilities)

Reason: Category

Rationale:

This entry is a Category. Using categories for mapping has been discouraged since 2019. Categories are informal organizational groupings of weaknesses that can help CWE users with data aggregation, navigation, and browsing. However, they are not weaknesses in themselves.

Comments:

See member weaknesses of this category.
+ Notes

Relationship

This is an unusual category. CWE does not cover the limitations of human processes and procedures that cannot be described in terms of a specific technical weakness as resident in the code, architecture, or configuration of the software. Since "known vulnerabilities" can arise from any kind of weakness, it is not possible to map this OWASP category to other CWE entries, since it would effectively require mapping this category to ALL weaknesses.
+ References
[REF-936] OWASP. "Top 10 2013-A9-Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities". <https://web.archive.org/web/20180324143733/https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2013-A9-Using_Components_with_Known_Vulnerabilities>. URL validated: 2025-08-04.
+ Content History
+ Submissions
Submission Date Submitter Organization
2013-07-16
(CWE 2.5, 2013-07-17) 		CWE Content Team MITRE
+ Modifications
Modification Date Modifier Organization
2025-09-09
(CWE 4.18, 2025-09-09) 		CWE Content Team MITRE
updated References
2023-06-29
(CWE 4.12, 2023-06-29) 		CWE Content Team MITRE
updated Mapping_Notes
2023-04-27
(CWE 4.11, 2023-04-27) 		CWE Content Team MITRE
updated Mapping_Notes
2021-10-28
(CWE 4.6, 2021-10-28) 		CWE Content Team MITRE
updated Relationships
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