Software development vulnerabilities can lead to security issues within an application. These security issues can be easily exploited by an attacker. But, if software developers take proper measures while developing software, these vulnerabilities can be avoided.
In this article, we will discuss different types of software development vulnerabilities that can make an application vulnerable to cyberattacks.
There are mainly six types of software development vulnerabilities:
- 1. Buffer Overflow
- 2. Race Conditions
- 3. Input Validation Related Vulnerabilities
- 4. Authentication Related Vulnerabilities
- 5. Authorization Related Vulnerabilities
- 6. Cryptography Related Vulnerabilities
Let’s look into each of them and try to understand how we can avoid them.
1. Buffer Overflow
In a program, we use a buffer to hold some amount of data. A buffer is created to hold a certain size of data. For example, in C, we can create a buffer like this:
char str[10];
Here, the str variable is a string that can hold up to 10 bytes of data. Now, let’s say we provide more than 10 bytes of data …






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