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ownership and responsibility for identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities are not clearly defined
or communicated within an organization, leaving environments unpatched, exploitable, and
with a broader attack surface." Note: members of this category include "Nearest IT Neighbor"
recommendations from the report, as well as suggestions by the CWE team. These relationships
are likely to change in future CWE versions.
Membership
Nature Type ID Name Page
MemberOf 1363 ICS Operations (& Maintenance) 1358 2500
Notes
Relationship
Relationships in this category are not authoritative and subject to change. See Maintenance
notes.
Maintenance
This category might be subject to CWE Scope Exclusion SCOPE.HUMANPROC (Human/
organizational process).
Maintenance
This category was created in CWE 4.7 to facilitate and illuminate discussion about weaknesses
in ICS with [REF-1248] as a starting point. After the release of CWE 4.9 in October 2022, this
has been under active review by members of the "Boosting CWE" subgroup of the CWE-CAPEC
ICS/OT Special Interest Group (SIG). Subgroup members did not find any CWEs to add to this
category in CWE 4.11. There may be some gaps with respect to CWE's current scope, which will
require consultation with many CWE stakeholders to resolve.
References
[REF-1261]Sam Weber, Paul A. Karger and Amit Paradkar. "A Software Flaw Taxonomy: Aiming
Tools At Security". 2005. < https://cwe.mitre.org/documents/sources/ASoftwareFlawTaxonomy-
AimingToolsatSecurity%5BWeber,Karger,Paradkar%5D.pdf >.
[REF-1248]Securing Energy Infrastructure Executive Task Force (SEI ETF). "Categories of
Security Vulnerabilities in ICS". 2022 March 9. < https://inl.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/SEIETF-
NCSV-TPT-Categories-of-Security-Vulnerabilities-ICS-v1_03-09-22.pdf >.
Category-1379: ICS Operations (& Maintenance): Human factors in ICS
environments
Category ID : 1379
Summary
Weaknesses in this category are related to the "Human factors in ICS environments" category
from the SEI ETF "Categories of Security Vulnerabilities in ICS" as published in March 2022:
"Environmental factors in ICS including physical duress, system complexities, and isolation may
result in security gaps or inadequacies in the performance of individual duties and responsibilities."
Note: members of this category include "Nearest IT Neighbor" recommendations from the report,
as well as suggestions by the CWE team. These relationships are likely to change in future CWE
versions.
Membership
Nature Type ID Name Page
MemberOf 1363 ICS Operations (& Maintenance) 1358 2500
CWE Version 4.14
CWE-1380: ICS Operations (& Maintenance): Post-analysis changes
CWE-1380: ICS Operations (& Maintenance): Post-analysis changes