CWE-665
Improper Initialization
Description
The product does not initialize or incorrectly initializes a resource, which might leave the resource in an unexpected state when it is accessed or used.
Hierarchy (View 1000)
Related attack patterns (CAPEC)
CAPEC-26 · CAPEC-29
CVEs mapped to this weakness (358)
page 18 of 18| CVE | Vendor / Product | Sev | Risk | CVSS | EPSS | KEV | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2012-0012 | 0.01 | — | 0.17 | Feb 14, 2012 | Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 does not properly handle the creation and initialization of string objects, which allows remote attackers to read data from arbitrary process-memory locations via a crafted web site, aka "Null Byte Information Disclosure Vulnerability." | |||
| CVE-1999-0993 | 0.01 | — | 0.07 | Dec 13, 1999 | Modifications to ACLs (Access Control Lists) in Microsoft Exchange 5.5 do not take effect until the directory store cache is refreshed. | |||
| CVE-2026-62433 | Hig | 0.00 | 7.3 | 0.00 | Jul 28, 2026 | Parts of the DM_OP handling code assumes the caller has provided the required number of buffers for the given operation without any checking being done. As a result, certain operations might access stack rubble as structures are possibly uninitialized. | ||
| CVE-2026-64775 | Cri | 0.00 | 9.8 | 0.00 | Jul 27, 2026 | A memory initialization issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6, macOS Sequoia 15.7.8, macOS Sonoma 14.8.8, macOS Tahoe 26.6, tvOS 26.6, visionOS 26.6, watchOS 26.6. An app may be able to cause unexpected system… | ||
| CVE-2026-54409 | Hig | 0.00 | 7.5 | 0.00 | Jul 2, 2026 | A malicious actor with access to the network and under certain conditions could exploit an Improper Initialization vulnerability found in UniFi Protect Application to bypass authentication in UniFi Protect Cameras. | ||
| CVE-2024-28084 | Hig | 0.00 | 7.5 | 0.01 | Mar 3, 2024 | p2putil.c in iNet wireless daemon (IWD) through 2.15 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because of initialization issues in situations where parsing of advertised service information fails. | ||
| CVE-2023-49062 | Hig | 0.00 | 7.5 | 0.01 | Nov 28, 2023 | Katran could disclose non-initialized kernel memory as part of an IP header. The issue was present for IPv4 encapsulation and ICMP (v4) Too Big packet generation. After a bpf_xdp_adjust_head call, Katran code didn’t initialize the Identification field for the IPv4 header,… | ||
| CVE-2023-37479 | Med | 0.00 | 5.3 | 0.01 | Jul 17, 2023 | Open Enclave is a hardware-agnostic open source library for developing applications that utilize Hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments, also known as Enclaves. There are two issues that are mitigated in version 0.19.3. First, Open Enclave SDK does not properly sanitize… | ||
| CVE-2023-1513 | Low | 0.00 | 3.3 | 0.00 | Mar 23, 2023 | A flaw was found in KVM. When calling the KVM_GET_DEBUGREGS ioctl, on 32-bit systems, there might be some uninitialized portions of the kvm_debugregs structure that could be copied to userspace, causing an information leak. | ||
| CVE-2022-29695 | Hig | 0.00 | 7.5 | 0.01 | Jun 2, 2022 | Unicorn Engine v2.0.0-rc7 contains memory leaks caused by an incomplete unicorn engine initialization. | ||
| CVE-2021-46320 | Hig | 0.00 | 7.5 | 0.01 | Feb 4, 2022 | In OpenZeppelin <=v4.4.0, initializer functions that are invoked separate from contract creation (the most prominent example being minimal proxies) may be reentered if they make an untrusted non-view external call. Once an initializer has finished running it can never be… | ||
| CVE-2021-46283 | Med | 0.00 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Jan 11, 2022 | nf_tables_newset in net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c in the Linux kernel before 5.12.13 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and general protection fault) because of the missing initialization for nft_set_elem_expr_alloc. A local user can set a… | ||
| CVE-2020-35508 | Med | 0.00 | 4.5 | 0.00 | Mar 26, 2021 | A flaw possibility of race condition and incorrect initialization of the process id was found in the Linux kernel child/parent process identification handling while filtering signal handlers. A local attacker is able to abuse this flaw to bypass checks to send any signal to a… | ||
| CVE-2019-15681 | Hig | 0.00 | 7.5 | 0.03 | Oct 29, 2019 | LibVNC commit before d01e1bb4246323ba6fcee3b82ef1faa9b1dac82a contains a memory leak (CWE-655) in VNC server code, which allow an attacker to read stack memory and can be abused for information disclosure. Combined with another vulnerability, it can be used to leak stack memory… | ||
| CVE-2018-10901 | Hig | 0.00 | 7.8 | 0.01 | Jul 26, 2018 | A flaw was found in Linux kernel's KVM virtualization subsystem. The VMX code does not restore the GDT.LIMIT to the previous host value, but instead sets it to 64KB. With a corrupted GDT limit a host's userspace code has an ability to place malicious entries in the GDT,… | ||
| CVE-2014-4371 | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | Sep 18, 2014 | The network-statistics interface in the kernel in Apple iOS before 8 and Apple TV before 7 does not properly initialize memory, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive memory-content and memory-layout information via a crafted application, a different vulnerability than… | |||
| CVE-2014-0178 | 0.00 | — | 0.04 | May 28, 2014 | Samba 3.6.6 through 3.6.23, 4.0.x before 4.0.18, and 4.1.x before 4.1.8, when a certain vfs shadow copy configuration is enabled, does not properly initialize the SRV_SNAPSHOT_ARRAY response field, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain potentially sensitive… | |||
| CVE-2011-3927 | 0.00 | — | 0.01 | Jan 24, 2012 | Skia, as used in Google Chrome before 16.0.912.77, does not perform all required initialization of values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors. |
- CVE-2012-0012Feb 14, 2012risk 0.01cvss —epss 0.17
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 does not properly handle the creation and initialization of string objects, which allows remote attackers to read data from arbitrary process-memory locations via a crafted web site, aka "Null Byte Information Disclosure Vulnerability."
- CVE-1999-0993Dec 13, 1999risk 0.01cvss —epss 0.07
Modifications to ACLs (Access Control Lists) in Microsoft Exchange 5.5 do not take effect until the directory store cache is refreshed.
- risk 0.00cvss 7.3epss 0.00
Parts of the DM_OP handling code assumes the caller has provided the required number of buffers for the given operation without any checking being done. As a result, certain operations might access stack rubble as structures are possibly uninitialized.
- risk 0.00cvss 9.8epss 0.00
A memory initialization issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6, macOS Sequoia 15.7.8, macOS Sonoma 14.8.8, macOS Tahoe 26.6, tvOS 26.6, visionOS 26.6, watchOS 26.6. An app may be able to cause unexpected system…
- risk 0.00cvss 7.5epss 0.00
A malicious actor with access to the network and under certain conditions could exploit an Improper Initialization vulnerability found in UniFi Protect Application to bypass authentication in UniFi Protect Cameras.
- risk 0.00cvss 7.5epss 0.01
p2putil.c in iNet wireless daemon (IWD) through 2.15 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because of initialization issues in situations where parsing of advertised service information fails.
- risk 0.00cvss 7.5epss 0.01
Katran could disclose non-initialized kernel memory as part of an IP header. The issue was present for IPv4 encapsulation and ICMP (v4) Too Big packet generation. After a bpf_xdp_adjust_head call, Katran code didn’t initialize the Identification field for the IPv4 header,…
- risk 0.00cvss 5.3epss 0.01
Open Enclave is a hardware-agnostic open source library for developing applications that utilize Hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments, also known as Enclaves. There are two issues that are mitigated in version 0.19.3. First, Open Enclave SDK does not properly sanitize…
- risk 0.00cvss 3.3epss 0.00
A flaw was found in KVM. When calling the KVM_GET_DEBUGREGS ioctl, on 32-bit systems, there might be some uninitialized portions of the kvm_debugregs structure that could be copied to userspace, causing an information leak.
- risk 0.00cvss 7.5epss 0.01
Unicorn Engine v2.0.0-rc7 contains memory leaks caused by an incomplete unicorn engine initialization.
- risk 0.00cvss 7.5epss 0.01
In OpenZeppelin <=v4.4.0, initializer functions that are invoked separate from contract creation (the most prominent example being minimal proxies) may be reentered if they make an untrusted non-view external call. Once an initializer has finished running it can never be…
- risk 0.00cvss 5.5epss 0.00
nf_tables_newset in net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c in the Linux kernel before 5.12.13 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and general protection fault) because of the missing initialization for nft_set_elem_expr_alloc. A local user can set a…
- risk 0.00cvss 4.5epss 0.00
A flaw possibility of race condition and incorrect initialization of the process id was found in the Linux kernel child/parent process identification handling while filtering signal handlers. A local attacker is able to abuse this flaw to bypass checks to send any signal to a…
- risk 0.00cvss 7.5epss 0.03
LibVNC commit before d01e1bb4246323ba6fcee3b82ef1faa9b1dac82a contains a memory leak (CWE-655) in VNC server code, which allow an attacker to read stack memory and can be abused for information disclosure. Combined with another vulnerability, it can be used to leak stack memory…
- risk 0.00cvss 7.8epss 0.01
A flaw was found in Linux kernel's KVM virtualization subsystem. The VMX code does not restore the GDT.LIMIT to the previous host value, but instead sets it to 64KB. With a corrupted GDT limit a host's userspace code has an ability to place malicious entries in the GDT,…
- CVE-2014-4371Sep 18, 2014risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.00
The network-statistics interface in the kernel in Apple iOS before 8 and Apple TV before 7 does not properly initialize memory, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive memory-content and memory-layout information via a crafted application, a different vulnerability than…
- CVE-2014-0178May 28, 2014risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.04
Samba 3.6.6 through 3.6.23, 4.0.x before 4.0.18, and 4.1.x before 4.1.8, when a certain vfs shadow copy configuration is enabled, does not properly initialize the SRV_SNAPSHOT_ARRAY response field, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain potentially sensitive…
- CVE-2011-3927Jan 24, 2012risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.01
Skia, as used in Google Chrome before 16.0.912.77, does not perform all required initialization of values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.