BS ISO/IEC 24772‑1:2024

This document enumerates approaches and techniques to avoid software programming language vulnerabilities in the development of systems where assured behaviour is required for security, safety, mission-critical and business-critical software. In general, the description of the vulnerabilities and description of avoidance mechanisms are applicable to the software developed, reviewed, or maintained for any application.

Vulnerabilities are described in a generic manner that is applicable to a broad range of programming languages.