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CWEs used by GitHub's preset Dependabot rules

GitHub uses industry-standard criteria to help you filter Dependabot alerts.

Dismiss low impact issues for development-scoped dependencies

The Dismiss low impact issues for development-scoped dependencies rule is a GitHub preset that auto-dismisses certain types of vulnerabilities that are found in npm dependencies used in development.

Along with the ecosystem:npm and scope:development alert metadata, we use the following GitHub-curated Common Weakness Enumerations (CWEs) to filter out low impact alerts for the Dismiss low impact issues for development-scoped dependencies rule. We regularly improve this list and vulnerability patterns covered by built-in rules.

Resource Management Issues

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
  • CWE-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
  • CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource
  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
  • CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion
  • CWE-1119 Excessive Use of Unconditional Branching

Programming and Logic Errors

  • CWE-185 Incorrect Regular Expression
  • CWE-754 Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
  • CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
  • CWE-248 Uncaught Exception
  • CWE-252 Unchecked Return Value
  • CWE-391 Unchecked Error Condition
  • CWE-696 Incorrect Behavior Order
  • CWE-1254 Incorrect Comparison Logic Granularity
  • CWE-665 Improper Initialization
  • CWE-703 Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions
  • CWE-178 Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity

Information Disclosure Issues

  • CWE-544 Missing Standardized Error Handling Mechanism
  • CWE-377 Insecure Temporary File
  • CWE-451 User Interface (UI) Misrepresentation of Critical Information
  • CWE-668 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere