ClassIncomplete

CWE-1059Insufficient Technical Documentation

Category: other

Description

The product does not contain sufficient technical or engineering documentation (whether on paper or in electronic form) that contains descriptions of all the relevant software/hardware elements of the product, such as its usage, structure, architectural components, interfaces, design, implementation, configuration, operation, etc.

Common consequences· 1

  • Other — Varies by Context, Hide Activities, Reduce Reliability, Quality Degradation, Reduce Maintainability
    Without a method of verification, one cannot be sure that everything only functions as expected.

Potential mitigations· 1

  • [Documentation, Architecture and Design]Ensure that design documentation is detailed enough to allow for post-manufacturing verification.

References

  1. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1059.html

Related by meaning· 6

Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.

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Incomplete Design Documentation
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Incomplete I/O Documentation
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Missing Documentation for Design
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Inconsistency Between Implementation and Documented Design
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Incomplete Documentation of Program Execution
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Insufficient Adherence to Expected Conventions
Sourced from MITRE CWE 4.20. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.