Common Weakness Enumeration
CWE Definition / CWE-572
CWE-572: Call to Thread run() instead of start()
The product calls a thread's run() method instead of calling start(), which causes the code to run in the thread of the caller instead of the callee.
Published:15 Dec 2006
Organization:MITRE
Modified:11 Dec 2025
Related Weakness
CWE-821: Incorrect Synchronization
