CWE-226 Sensitive Information in Resource Not Removed Before Reuse

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The product releases a resource such as memory or a file so that it can be made available for reuse, but it does not clear or "zeroize" the information contained in the resource before the product performs a critical state transition or makes the resource available for reuse by other entities.

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parent weaknesses

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child weaknesses

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vulnerabilities (52)

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IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2022-25762UShigh8.6—
If a web application sends a WebSocket message concurrently with the WebSocket connection closing when running on Apache Tomcat 8.5.0 to 8.5.75 or Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.20,…
CVE-2022-39393UShigh8.6—
Wasmtime is a standalone runtime for WebAssembly. Prior to versions 2.0.2 and 1.0.2, there is a bug in Wasmtime's implementation of its pooling instance allocator where when a line…
CVE-2018-7166UShigh7.5—
In all versions of Node.js 10 prior to 10.9.0, an argument processing flaw can cause `Buffer.alloc()` to return uninitialized memory. This method is intended to be safe and only re…
CVE-2016-0879UShigh7.5—
Moxa Secure Router EDR-G903 devices before 3.4.12 do not delete copies of configuration and log files after completing the import function, which allows remote attackers to obtain…
CVE-2025-13108UShigh7.5—
IBM DB2 Merge Backup for Linux, UNIX and Windows 12.1.0.0 could allow an attacker to access sensitive information in memory due to the buffer not properly clearing resources.
CVE-2024-49997UShigh7.5—
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: lantiq_etop: fix memory disclosure When applying padding, the buffer is not zeroed, which resul…
CVE-2023-41138USmedium6.7—
The AppsAnywhere macOS client-privileged helper can be tricked into executing arbitrary commands with elevated permissions by a local user process.
CVE-2024-32036USmedium6.5—
ImageSharp is a 2D graphics API. A data leakage flaw was found in ImageSharp's JPEG and TGA decoders. This vulnerability is triggered when an attacker passes a specially crafted JP…
CVE-2018-12207USmedium6.5—
Improper invalidation for page table updates by a virtual guest operating system for multiple Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of se…
CVE-2019-25571USmedium5.5—
MediaMonkey 4.1.23 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by opening a specially crafted MP3 file containing an excessively…
CVE-2019-25563USmedium5.5—
PCHelpWareV2 1.0.0.5 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by supplying a malformed image file. Attackers can trigger the…
CVE-2019-25553USmedium5.5—
CEWE PHOTO IMPORTER 6.4.3 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by importing a specially crafted image file. Attackers can…
CVE-2025-33196USmedium5.5—
NVIDIA DGX Spark GB10 contains a vulnerability in SROOT firmware, where an attacker could cause a resource to be reused. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to in…
CVE-2025-48066USmedium5.5—
wire-webapp is the web application for the open-source messaging service Wire. A bug fix caused a regression causing an issue with function to delete local data. Instructing the cl…
CVE-2024-53212USmedium5.5—
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netlink: fix false positive warning in extack during dumps Commit under fixes extended extack reporting to dum…
CVE-2023-3006USmedium5.5—
A known cache speculation vulnerability, known as Branch History Injection (BHI) or Spectre-BHB, becomes actual again for the new hw AmpereOne. Spectre-BHB is similar to Spectre v2…
CVE-2023-1637USmedium5.5—
A flaw that boot CPU could be vulnerable for the speculative execution behavior kind of attacks in the Linux kernel X86 CPU Power management options functionality was found in the…
CVE-2022-23824USmedium5.5—
IBPB may not prevent return branch predictions from being specified by pre-IBPB branch targets leading to a potential information disclosure.
CVE-2020-27218USmedium4.8—
In Eclipse Jetty version 9.4.0.RC0 to 9.4.34.v20201102, 10.0.0.alpha0 to 10.0.0.beta2, and 11.0.0.alpha0 to 11.0.0.beta2, if GZIP request body inflation is enabled and requests fro…
CVE-2026-114501USmedium5.3—
Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 11.2.1 until 13.0.0, Arrow export assumes that an image's rows are tightly contiguous and exports from im->blocks[0].ptr even when PILLOW_A…
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