CWE-824— Access of Uninitialized Pointer
The product accesses or uses a pointer that has not been initialized.— MITRE CWE catalog
296 active CVEs classified under this weakness category. Sourced from NVD, GHSA, and vendor advisories. Full definition on MITRE →
CVEs classified under CWE-824page 1 of 6
- CVE-2015-1770CRITICALCVSS 8.8EG 9.0⚠ KEV2015-06-10
Microsoft Office 2013 SP1 and 2013 RT SP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Office document, aka "Microsoft Office Uninitialized Memory Use Vulnerability."
- CVE-2022-21971CRITICALCVSS 7.8EG 9.0⚠ KEV2022-02-09
Windows Runtime Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- CVE-2009-0846HIGHCVSS v2 10.0EG 10.02009-04-09
The asn1_decode_generaltime function in lib/krb5/asn.1/asn1_decode.c in the ASN.1 GeneralizedTime decoder in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.6.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arb…
- CVE-2026-100788CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82026-09-29
Invalid pointer in the JavaScript: WebAssembly component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox ESR 153.4, Thunderbird 157, Thunderbird 140.17, Thunderbird 153.4, Firefox 157, and Firefox ESR 140.17.
- CVE-2026-16353CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82026-07-21
Invalid pointer in the DOM: Bindings (WebIDL) component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 153, Firefox ESR 115.38, Firefox ESR 140.13, Thunderbird 153, and Thunderbird 140.13.
- CVE-2026-6748CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82026-04-21
Uninitialized memory in the Audio/Video: Web Codecs component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 150, Firefox ESR 140.10, Thunderbird 150, and Thunderbird 140.10.
- CVE-2026-2805CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82026-02-24
Invalid pointer in the DOM: Core & HTML component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 148 and Thunderbird 148.
- CVE-2026-2785CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82026-02-24
Invalid pointer in the JavaScript Engine component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 148, Firefox ESR 140.8, Thunderbird 148, and Thunderbird 140.8.
- CVE-2025-66588CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82025-12-11
In AzeoTech DAQFactory release 20.7 (Build 2555), an access of uninitialized pointer vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker which can lead to arbitrary code execution.
- CVE-2022-46280CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82023-07-21
A use of uninitialized pointer vulnerability exists in the PQS format pFormat functionality of Open Babel 3.1.1 and master commit 530dbfa3. A specially crafted malformed file can lead to arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a …
- CVE-2022-44451CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82023-07-21
A use of uninitialized pointer vulnerability exists in the MSI format atom functionality of Open Babel 3.1.1 and master commit 530dbfa3. A specially crafted malformed file can lead to arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a mal…
- CVE-2022-42885CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82023-07-21
A use of uninitialized pointer vulnerability exists in the GRO format res functionality of Open Babel 3.1.1 and master commit 530dbfa3. A specially crafted malformed file can lead to arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a mali…
- CVE-2021-36219CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82021-09-27
An issue was discovered in SKALE sgxwallet 1.58.3. The provided input for ECALL 14 triggers a branch in trustedEcdsaSign that frees a non-initialized pointer from the stack. An attacker can chain multiple enclave calls to prepare a stack t…
- CVE-2021-1619CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82021-09-23
A vulnerability in the authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) function of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass NETCONF or RESTCONF authentication and do either of the following: Insta…
- CVE-2020-11138CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82021-01-21
Uninitialized pointers accessed during music play back with incorrect bit stream due to an uninitialized heap memory result in instability in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon…
- CVE-2020-25573CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82020-09-14
An issue was discovered in the linked-hash-map crate before 0.5.3 for Rust. It creates an uninitialized NonNull pointer, which violates a non-null constraint.
- CVE-2020-17446CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82020-08-12
asyncpg before 0.21.0 allows a malicious PostgreSQL server to trigger a crash or execute arbitrary code (on a database client) via a crafted server response, because of access to an uninitialized pointer in the array data decoder.
- CVE-2018-17141CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82018-09-21
HylaFAX 6.0.6 and HylaFAX+ 5.6.0 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a dial-in session that provides a FAX page with the JPEG bit enabled, which is mishandled in FaxModem::writeECMData() in the faxd/CopyQuality.c++ file.
- CVE-2018-14356CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82018-07-17
An issue was discovered in Mutt before 1.10.1 and NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. pop.c mishandles a zero-length UID.
- CVE-2018-11743CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82018-06-05
The init_copy function in kernel.c in mruby 1.4.1 makes initialize_copy calls for TT_ICLASS objects, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (mrb_hash_keys uninitialized pointer and application crash) or possibly have unspecifi…
- CVE-2017-12561CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82018-02-15
A remote code execution vulnerability in HPE intelligent Management Center (iMC) PLAT version Plat 7.3 E0504P4 and earlier was found.
- CVE-2022-31625CRITICALCVSS 8.1EG 9.82022-06-16
In PHP versions 7.4.x below 7.4.30, 8.0.x below 8.0.20, and 8.1.x below 8.1.7, when using Postgres database extension, supplying invalid parameters to the parametrized query may lead to PHP attempting to free memory using uninitialized dat…
- CVE-2020-36617CRITICALCVSS 4.6EG 9.82022-12-18
A vulnerability was found in ewxrjk sftpserver. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function sftp_parse_path of the file parse.c. The manipulation leads to uninitialized pointer. The real existence of…
- CVE-2010-1818HIGHCVSS v2 9.3EG 9.32010-08-31
The IPersistPropertyBag2::Read function in QTPlugin.ocx in Apple QuickTime 6.x, 7.x before 7.6.8, and other versions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the _Marshaled_pUnk attribute, which triggers unmarshalling of an un…
- CVE-2006-6143HIGHCVSS v2 9.3EG 9.32006-12-31
The RPC library in Kerberos 5 1.4 through 1.4.4, and 1.5 through 1.5.1, as used in Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) and other products that use this library, calls an uninitialized function pointer in freed memory, which allows rem…
- CVE-2018-19857CRITICALCVSS 9.1EG 9.12018-12-05
The CAF demuxer in modules/demux/caf.c in VideoLAN VLC media player 3.0.4 may read memory from an uninitialized pointer when processing magic cookies in CAF files, because a ReadKukiChunk() cast converts a return value to an unsigned int e…
- CVE-2025-32451HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82025-08-13
A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Foxit Reader 2025.1.0.27937 due to the use of an uninitialized pointer. A specially crafted Javascript code inside a malicious PDF document can trigger this vulnerability, which can lead to memor…
- CVE-2022-34480HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-12-22
Within the <code>lg_init()</code> function, if several allocations succeed but then one fails, an uninitialized pointer would have been freed despite never being allocated. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 102.
- CVE-2021-41208HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-11-05
TensorFlow is an open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions the code for boosted trees in TensorFlow is still missing validation. As a result, attackers can trigger denial of service (via dereferencing `nullptr`s or vi…
- CVE-2020-8882HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82020-03-20
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Foxit Studio Photo 3.6.6.916. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or op…
- CVE-2019-12870HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82019-06-24
An issue was discovered in PHOENIX CONTACT PC Worx through 1.86, PC Worx Express through 1.86, and Config+ through 1.86. A manipulated PC Worx or Config+ project file could lead to an Uninitialized Pointer and remote code execution. The at…
- CVE-2019-0853HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82019-04-09
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) handles objects in the memory, aka 'GDI+ Remote Code Execution Vulnerability'.
- CVE-2018-14282HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82018-07-31
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Foxit Reader 9.0.1.1049. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open …
- CVE-2018-9981HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82018-05-17
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Foxit Reader 9.0.0.29935. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open…
- CVE-2018-10484HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82018-05-17
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Foxit Reader 9.0.0.29935. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open…
- CVE-2018-3842HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82018-04-19
An exploitable use of an uninitialized pointer vulnerability exists in the JavaScript engine in Foxit PDF Reader version 9.0.1.1049. A specially crafted PDF document can lead to a dereference of an uninitialized pointer which, if under att…
- CVE-2017-16378HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82017-12-09
An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader: 2017.012.20098 and earlier versions, 2017.011.30066 and earlier versions, 2015.006.30355 and earlier versions, and 11.0.22 and earlier versions. This vulnerability is due to a computatio…
- CVE-2017-16377HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82017-12-09
An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader: 2017.012.20098 and earlier versions, 2017.011.30066 and earlier versions, 2015.006.30355 and earlier versions, and 11.0.22 and earlier versions. This vulnerability is due to a computatio…
- CVE-2016-4343HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82016-05-22
The phar_make_dirstream function in ext/phar/dirstream.c in PHP before 5.6.18 and 7.x before 7.0.3 mishandles zero-size ././@LongLink files, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized pointer dereference) or …
- CVE-2016-1005HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82016-03-12
Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.333 and 19.x through 21.x before 21.0.0.182 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.577 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 21.0.0.176, Adobe AIR SDK before 21.0.0.176, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 21.0.0.176…
- CVE-2022-33280HIGHCVSS 7.3EG 8.82023-02-12
Memory corruption due to access of uninitialized pointer in Bluetooth HOST while processing the AVRCP packet.
- CVE-2026-66081HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72026-10-02
Access of Uninitialized Pointer vulnerability in Apache Thrift c_glib bindings. This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.25.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.25.0, which fixes the issue.
- CVE-2019-1869HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62019-06-20
A vulnerability in the internal packet-processing functionality of the Cisco StarOS operating system running on virtual platforms could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to stop processing traffic, resul…
- CVE-2007-4000HIGHCVSS v2 8.5EG 8.52007-09-05
The kadm5_modify_policy_internal function in lib/kadm5/srv/svr_policy.c in the Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.5 through 1.6.2 does not properly check return values when the policy does not exist, which …
- CVE-2023-43531HIGHCVSS 8.4EG 8.42024-05-06
Memory corruption while verifying the serialized header when the key pairs are generated.
- CVE-2018-11803HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 8.32019-02-05
Subversion's mod_dav_svn Apache HTTPD module versions 1.11.0 and 1.10.0 to 1.10.3 will crash after dereferencing an uninitialized pointer if the client omits the root path in a recursive directory listing operation.
- CVE-2023-30847HIGHCVSS 8.2EG 8.22023-04-27
H2O is an HTTP server. In versions 2.3.0-beta2 and prior, when the reverse proxy handler tries to processes a certain type of invalid HTTP request, it tries to build an upstream URL by reading from uninitialized pointer. This behavior can …
- CVE-2022-31599HIGHCVSS 8.2EG 8.22022-07-04
NVIDIA DGX A100 contains a vulnerability in SBIOS in the Ofbd, where a local user with elevated privileges can cause access to an uninitialized pointer, which may lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, denial of service, and inf…
- CVE-2020-12300HIGHCVSS 8.2EG 8.22020-08-13
Uninitialized pointer in BIOS firmware for Intel(R) Server Board Families S2600CW, S2600KP, S2600TP, and S2600WT may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
- CVE-2018-16522HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12018-12-06
Amazon Web Services (AWS) FreeRTOS through 1.3.1 has an uninitialized pointer free in SOCKETS_SetSockOpt.
Map vulnerabilities like CWE-824 to your infrastructure
EchelonGraph correlates every CVE — across CWE-824 and 150+ other weakness categories — against the assets you actually run. See blast radius, fix versions, and remediation steps in one graph.
Book a Demo →