The chart below shows the most common weaknesses found in vulnerabilities across the Erlang ecosystem. Understanding which weakness types recur most often helps library authors and application developers focus their security efforts where they matter most.

Each CVE is mapped to its CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration) using the MITRE CWE hierarchy. A slice's count includes every CVE reachable anywhere below it in the hierarchy, not just CVEs assigned that exact CWE — click a slice or legend row to drill into its direct children and see the same breakdown one level down.

Improper Handling of Additional Special Element CWE-167 CWE-167 at MITRE

The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not handle or incorrectly handles when an additional unexpected special element is provided.

No published CVEs reference this weakness.