CWE-401— Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime (Memory Leak)
The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.— MITRE CWE catalog
2,075 active CVEs classified under this weakness category. Sourced from NVD, GHSA, and vendor advisories. Full definition on MITRE →
CVEs classified under CWE-401page 7 of 42
- CVE-2021-28651HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52021-05-27
An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.15 and 5.x before 5.0.6. Due to a buffer-management bug, it allows a denial of service. When resolving a request with the urn: scheme, the parser leaks a small amount of memory. However, there is a…
- CVE-2021-20209HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52021-05-25
A memory leak vulnerability was found in Privoxy before 3.0.29 in the show-status CGI handler when no action files are configured.
- CVE-2020-25672HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52021-05-25
A memory leak vulnerability was found in Linux kernel in llcp_sock_connect
- CVE-2020-20451HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52021-05-25
Denial of Service issue in FFmpeg 4.2 due to resource management errors via fftools/cmdutils.c.
- CVE-2021-32032HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52021-05-21
In Trusted Firmware-M through 1.3.0, cleaning up the memory allocated for a multi-part cryptographic operation (in the event of a failure) can prevent the abort() operation in the associated cryptographic library from freeing internal reso…
- CVE-2021-27386HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52021-05-12
A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC HMI Comfort Outdoor Panels V15 7\" & 15\" (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions < V15.1 Update 6), SIMATIC HMI Comfort Outdoor Panels V16 7\" & 15\" (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions < V16…
- CVE-2021-28665HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52021-05-06
Stormshield SNS with versions before 3.7.18, 3.11.6 and 4.1.6 has a memory-management defect in the SNMP plugin that can lead to excessive consumption of memory and CPU resources, and possibly a denial of service.
- CVE-2021-0230HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52021-04-22
On Juniper Networks SRX Series devices with link aggregation (lag) configured, executing any operation that fetches Aggregated Ethernet (AE) interface statistics, including but not limited to SNMP GET requests, causes a slow kernel memory …
- CVE-2020-11255HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52021-04-07
Denial of service while processing RTCP packets containing multiple SDES reports due to memory for last SDES packet is freed and rest of the memory is leaked in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consu…
- CVE-2021-30141HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52021-04-05
Module/Settings/UserExport.php in Friendica through 2021.01 allows settings/userexport to be used by anonymous users, as demonstrated by an attempted access to an array offset on a value of type null, and excessive memory consumption. NOTE…
- CVE-2021-20216HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52021-03-25
A flaw was found in Privoxy in versions before 3.0.31. A memory leak that occurs when decompression fails unexpectedly may lead to a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
- CVE-2021-20215HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52021-03-25
A flaw was found in Privoxy in versions before 3.0.29. Memory leaks in the show-status CGI handler when memory allocations fail can lead to a system crash.
- CVE-2021-20214HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52021-03-25
A flaw was found in Privoxy in versions before 3.0.29. Memory leaks in the client-tags CGI handler when client tags are configured and memory allocations fail can lead to a system crash.
- CVE-2021-20212HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52021-03-25
A flaw was found in Privoxy in versions before 3.0.29. Memory leak if multiple filters are executed and the last one is skipped due to a pcre error leading to a system crash.
- CVE-2021-20211HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52021-03-25
A flaw was found in Privoxy in versions before 3.0.29. Memory leak when client tags are active can cause a system crash.
- CVE-2021-20210HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52021-03-25
A flaw was found in Privoxy in versions before 3.0.29. Memory leak in the show-status CGI handler when no filter files are configured can lead to a system crash.
- CVE-2020-35502HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52021-03-25
A flaw was found in Privoxy in versions before 3.0.29. Memory leaks when a response is buffered and the buffer limit is reached or Privoxy is running out of memory can lead to a system crash.
- CVE-2021-21723HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52021-01-26
Some ZTE products have a DoS vulnerability. Due to the improper handling of memory release in some specific scenarios, a remote attacker can trigger the vulnerability by performing a series of operations, resulting in memory leak, which ma…
- CVE-2021-0202HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52021-01-15
On Juniper Networks MX Series and EX9200 Series platforms with Trio-based MPC (Modular Port Concentrator) where Integrated Routing and Bridging (IRB) interface is configured and it is mapped to a VPLS instance or a Bridge-Domain, certain n…
- CVE-2018-11246HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52021-01-11
K7TSMngr.exe in K7Computing K7AntiVirus Premium 15.1.0.53 has a Memory Leak.
- CVE-2020-35893HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-12-31
An issue was discovered in the simple-slab crate before 0.3.3 for Rust. remove() has an off-by-one error, causing memory leakage and a drop of uninitialized memory.
- CVE-2020-9124HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-12-29
There is a memory leak vulnerability in some versions of Huawei CloudEngine product. An unauthenticated, remote attacker may exploit this vulnerability by sending specific message to the affected product. Due to not release the allocated m…
- CVE-2020-35679HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-12-24
smtpd/table.c in OpenSMTPD before 6.8.0p1 lacks a certain regfree, which might allow attackers to trigger a "very significant" memory leak via messages to an instance that performs many regex lookups.
- CVE-2020-27713HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-12-11
In certain configurations on version 13.1.3.4, when a BIG-IP AFM HTTP security profile is applied to a virtual server and the BIG-IP system receives a request with specific characteristics, the connection is reset and the Traffic Managemen…
- CVE-2020-2322HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-12-03
Jenkins Chaos Monkey Plugin 0.3 and earlier does not perform permission checks in several HTTP endpoints, allowing attackers with Overall/Read permission to generate load and to generate memory leaks.
- CVE-2019-14559HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-11-23
Uncontrolled resource consumption in EDK II may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via network access.
- CVE-2020-28723HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-11-16
Memory leak in IPv6Param::setAddress in CloudAvid PParam 1.3.1.
- CVE-2020-1683HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-10-16
On Juniper Networks Junos OS devices, a specific SNMP OID poll causes a memory leak which over time leads to a kernel crash (vmcore). Prior to the kernel crash other processes might be impacted, such as failure to establish SSH connection …
- CVE-2020-27174HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-10-16
In Amazon AWS Firecracker before 0.21.3, and 0.22.x before 0.22.1, the serial console buffer can grow its memory usage without limit when data is sent to the standard input. This can result in a memory leak on the microVM emulation thread,…
- CVE-2020-25644HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-10-06
A memory leak flaw was found in WildFly OpenSSL in versions prior to 1.1.3.Final, where it removes an HTTP session. It may allow the attacker to cause OOM leading to a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to sys…
- CVE-2020-25795HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-09-19
An issue was discovered in the sized-chunks crate through 0.6.2 for Rust. In the Chunk implementation, insert_from can have a memory-safety issue upon a panic.
- CVE-2020-25794HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-09-19
An issue was discovered in the sized-chunks crate through 0.6.2 for Rust. In the Chunk implementation, clone can have a memory-safety issue upon a panic.
- CVE-2020-4375HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-07-28
IBM MQ, IBM MQ Appliance, IBM MQ for HPE NonStop 8.0, 9.1 CD, and 9.1 LTS could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service due to a memory leak caused by an error creating a dynamic queue. IBM X-Force ID: 179080.
- CVE-2020-15806HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-07-22
CODESYS Control runtime system before 3.5.16.10 allows Uncontrolled Memory Allocation.
- CVE-2020-12604HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-07-01
Envoy version 1.14.2, 1.13.2, 1.12.4 or earlier is susceptible to increased memory usage in the case where an HTTP/2 client requests a large payload but does not send enough window updates to consume the entire stream and does not reset th…
- CVE-2019-20888HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-06-19
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.7, 5.6.3, 5.5.2, and 4.10.5. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an outgoing webhook or a slash command integration.
- CVE-2020-12887HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-06-18
Memory leaks were discovered in the CoAP library in Arm Mbed OS 5.15.3 when using the Arm mbed-coap library 5.1.5. The CoAP parser is responsible for parsing received CoAP packets. The function sn_coap_parser_options_parse() parses the CoA…
- CVE-2020-3195HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-05-06
A vulnerability in the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) implementation in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a memory l…
- CVE-2020-5883HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-04-30
On BIG-IP 15.0.0-15.0.1, 14.1.0-14.1.2.3, 14.0.0-14.0.1, and 13.1.0-13.1.3.1, when a virtual server is configured with HTTP explicit proxy and has an attached HTTP_PROXY_REQUEST iRule, POST requests sent to the virtual server cause an xdat…
- CVE-2018-21079HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-04-08
An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with L(5.x), M(6.0), N(7.x), and O(8.0) software. There is a kernel pointer leak in the USB gadget driver. The Samsung ID is SVE-2017-10993 (March 2018).
- CVE-2020-3800HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-03-25
Adobe Acrobat and Reader versions 2020.006.20034 and earlier, 2017.011.30158 and earlier, 2017.011.30158 and earlier, 2015.006.30510 and earlier, and 2015.006.30510 and earlier have a memory address leak vulnerability. Successful exploitat…
- CVE-2020-6080HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-03-24
An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the resource allocation handling of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When encountering errors while parsing mDNS messages, some allocated data is not freed, possibly leading to a denial-…
- CVE-2020-6079HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-03-24
An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the resource allocation handling of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When encountering errors while parsing mDNS messages, some allocated data is not freed, possibly leading to a denial-…
- CVE-2020-10593HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-03-23
Tor before 0.3.5.10, 0.4.x before 0.4.1.9, and 0.4.2.x before 0.4.2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service (memory leak), aka TROVE-2020-004. This occurs in circpad_setup_machine_on_circ because a circuit-padding machine ca…
- CVE-2020-9431HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-02-27
In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.1, 3.0.0 to 3.0.8, and 2.6.0 to 2.6.14, the LTE RRC dissector could leak memory. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-lte-rrc.c by adjusting certain append operations.
- CVE-2020-1815HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-02-18
Huawei NIP6800 versions V500R001C30, V500R001C60SPC500, and V500R005C00; Secospace USG6600 and USG9500 versions V500R001C30SPC200, V500R001C30SPC600, V500R001C60SPC500, and V500R005C00 have a memory leak vulnerability. The software does no…
- CVE-2020-3756HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-02-13
Adobe Acrobat and Reader versions 2019.021.20061 and earlier, 2017.011.30156 and earlier, 2017.011.30156 and earlier, and 2015.006.30508 and earlier have a stack exhaustion vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to memory leak .
- CVE-2020-3753HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-02-13
Adobe Acrobat and Reader versions 2019.021.20061 and earlier, 2017.011.30156 and earlier, 2017.011.30156 and earlier, and 2015.006.30508 and earlier have a stack exhaustion vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to memory leak .
- CVE-2020-7217HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-02-11
An ni_dhcp4_fsm_process_dhcp4_packet memory leak in openSUSE wicked 0.6.55 and earlier allows network attackers to cause a denial of service by sending DHCP4 packets with a different client-id.
- CVE-2020-7216HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-02-05
An ni_dhcp4_parse_response memory leak in openSUSE wicked 0.6.55 and earlier allows network attackers to cause a denial of service by sending DHCP4 packets without a message type option.
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