Security News > 2021 > November > MITRE shares list of most dangerous hardware weaknesses
MITRE shared a list of the topmost dangerous programming, design, and architecture security flaws plaguing hardware this year.
This list is the result of the not-for-profit MITRE organization collaborating within the Hardware CWE Special Interest Group, a community of individuals representing organizations from "Hardware design, manufacturing, research, and security domains, as well as academia and government."
"The methodology used to generate the inaugural CWE Most Important Hardware Weaknesses List is limited somewhat in terms of scientific and statistical rigor," MITRE explained.
The main goal of MITRE's 2021 CWE Most Important Hardware Weaknesses is to drive awareness of common hardware weaknesses through Common Weakness Enumeration.
The list embedded below provides insight into the ten most concerning hardware security weaknesses out of 96 hardware entries in the CWE corpus.
"Hardware consumers could use the list to help them to ask for more secure hardware products from their suppliers," MITRE added.