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CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration) and the CWE Top 25 Explained

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Explains the CWE taxonomy run by MITRE for categorizing software and hardware weaknesses, how it differs from CVE, and what the CWE Top 25 ranking of the most severe flaw types means for developers.
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