Welcome to this special RadioCSIRT cybersecurity briefing.
In this episode, we take an in-depth look at the MITRE Top 25 Common Weakness Enumerations (CWE) for 2025, moving beyond a simple ranking to analyze the structural weaknesses that continue to drive real-world compromises.
This analysis focuses on how recurring flaws such as cross-site scripting, sql injection, missing authorization, memory corruption, and business logic failures remain dominant attack enablers despite years of awareness, tooling, and secure development frameworks.
We examine why these weaknesses persist, how they are actually exploited in production environments, and what they reveal about systemic failures in application design, governance, and security architecture.
Special attention is given to the operational impact for CERT/CSIRT and SOC teams, including:
- how cwe analysis supports anticipation of future vulnerabilities,
- why root-cause driven prioritization is more effective than cve-based triage alone,
- and how logic flaws and authorization failures increasingly evade automated detection.
This episode also highlights key 2025 trends, including the rise of business logic vulnerabilities, the gap between modern frameworks and real implementations, and the growing weight of technical and organizational debt.
A synthesis of this analysis is available on my blog.
Sources:
MITRE – Top 25 CWE 2025: https://cwe.mitre.org/top25/archive/2025/2025_cwe_top25.html
Blog : https://blog.marcfredericgomez.com/top-25-cwe-2025-technical-analysis/
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