CWE-453 Insecure Default Variable Initialization

variant

The product, by default, initializes an internal variable with an insecure or less secure value than is possible.

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parent weaknesses

Broader classes this is a kind of.

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vulnerabilities (30)

Known CVEs related to this entry.

IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2025-47945UScritical9.8OT elevated—
Donetick an open-source app for managing tasks and chores. Prior to version 0.1.44, the application uses JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for authentication, but the signing secret has a weak…
CVE-2021-27426UScritical9.8—
GE UR IED firmware versions prior to version 8.1x with “Basic” security variant does not allow the disabling of the “Factory Mode,” which is used for servicing the IED by a “Factor…
CVE-2022-3262UShigh8.1OT elevated—
A flaw was found in Openshift. A pod with a DNSPolicy of "ClusterFirst" may incorrectly resolve the hostname based on a service provided. This flaw allows an attacker to supply an…
CVE-2026-0082UShigh7.8—
In tryStartActivity of NfcDispatcher.java, there is a possible automatic special app access permission assignment due to an insecure default value. This could lead to local escalat…
CVE-2025-39717UShigh7.8—
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: open_tree_attr: do not allow id-mapping changes without OPEN_TREE_CLONE As described in commit 7a54947e727b ('…
CVE-2023-27516UShigh7.8OT elevated—
An authentication bypass vulnerability exists in the CiRpcAccepted() functionality of SoftEther VPN 4.41-9782-beta and 5.01.9674. A specially crafted network packet can lead to una…
CVE-2008-6540USmedium5.1Exploit
DotNetNuke before 4.8.2, during installation or upgrade, does not warn the administrator when the default (1) ValidationKey and (2) DecryptionKey values cannot be modified in the w…
CVE-2026-103577UShigh7.5—
Insecure default variable initialization in Microsoft QUIC allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature over a network.
CVE-2024-39916USmedium6.4OT elevated—
FOG is a free open-source cloning/imaging/rescue suite/inventory management system. There is a security issue with the NFS configuration in /etc/exports generated by the installer…
CVE-2023-53462USmedium5.5—
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hsr: Fix uninit-value access in fill_frame_info() Syzbot reports the following uninit-value access problem. =…
CVE-2023-53461USmedium5.5—
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring: wait interruptibly for request completions on exit WHen the ring exits, cleanup is done and the fina…
CVE-2024-0340USmedium5.5—
A vulnerability was found in vhost_new_msg in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel, which does not properly initialize memory in messages passed between virtual guests and the…
CVE-2022-47197USmedium5.4—
An insecure default vulnerability exists in the Post Creation functionality of Ghost Foundation Ghost 5.9.4. Default installations of Ghost allow non-administrator users to inject…
CVE-2022-47196USmedium5.4OT elevated—
An insecure default vulnerability exists in the Post Creation functionality of Ghost Foundation Ghost 5.9.4. Default installations of Ghost allow non-administrator users to inject…
CVE-2022-47195USmedium5.4—
An insecure default vulnerability exists in the Post Creation functionality of Ghost Foundation Ghost 5.9.4. Default installations of Ghost allow non-administrator users to inject…
CVE-2022-47194USmedium5.4OT elevated—
An insecure default vulnerability exists in the Post Creation functionality of Ghost Foundation Ghost 5.9.4. Default installations of Ghost allow non-administrator users to inject…
CVE-2022-46831USmedium4.9OT elevated—
In JetBrains TeamCity between 2022.10 and 2022.10.1 connecting to AWS using the "Default Credential Provider Chain" allowed TeamCity project administrators to access AWS resources…
CVE-2021-33130USmedium4.6OT elevated—
Insecure default variable initialization of Intel(R) RealSense(TM) ID Solution F450 before version 2.6.0.74 may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable information disc…
CVE-2020-12327USmedium4.4OT elevated—
Insecure default variable initialization in some Intel(R) Thunderbolt(TM) DCH drivers for Windows* before version 72 may allow a privileged user to potentially enable information d…
CVE-2026-109828USmedium4.3—
A vulnerability was found in libsndfile up to 1.2.2. This issue affects the function wavlike_subchunk_parse of the file src/wavlike.c of the component WAV Parsing. Performing a man…
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