The 2022 CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses list contains the most common and impactful weaknesses, and is based on the analysis of nearly 38,000 CVE records from the previous two years.

Out-of-bounds write and cross-site scripting (XSS) remain the two most dangerous vulnerabilities.

Some of the most significant changes include race conditions moving from 33 to 22, code injection from 28 to 25, and uncontrolled resource consumption from 27 to 23 — these are also the new types of vulnerabilities that made the 2022 list. Command injection and NULL pointer dereference also moved up a few positions in the list.