CWE-460 Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception

base

The product does not clean up its state or incorrectly cleans up its state when an exception is thrown, leading to unexpected state or control flow.

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parent weaknesses

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vulnerabilities (44)

Known CVEs related to this entry.

IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2025-31650UShigh7.5Exploit
Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. Incorrect error handling for some invalid HTTP priority headers resulted in incomplete clean-up of the failed request whic…
CVE-2018-17961UShigh8.6Exploit
Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors involving errorhandler setup. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incom…
CVE-2022-22150UShigh8.8—
A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the JavaScript engine of Foxit Software’s PDF Reader, version 11.1.0.52543. A specially-crafted PDF document can trigger an exception wh…
CVE-2026-40583UShigh8.2—
UltraDAG is a minimal DAG-BFT blockchain in Rust. In version 0.1, a non-council attacker can submit a signed SmartOp::Vote transaction that passes signature, nonce, and balance pre…
CVE-2018-17183UShigh7.8—
Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25 allowed a user-writable error exception table, which could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to potentially overwrite or…
CVE-2018-1000199USmedium5.5Exploit
The Linux Kernel version 3.18 contains a dangerous feature vulnerability in modify_user_hw_breakpoint() that can result in crash and possibly memory corruption. This attack appear…
CVE-2024-53059UShigh7.8—
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: Fix response handling in iwl_mvm_send_recovery_cmd() 1. The size of the response packet is…
CVE-2022-4744UShigh7.8—
A double-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s TUN/TAP device driver functionality in how a user registers the device when the register_netdevice function fails (NETDEV_REGISTE…
CVE-2026-61387UShigh7.5—
In Eclipse Milo versions 1.0.0 through 1.1.4, monitored-item quota accounting is not exception-safe: if item creation fails with an unchecked error, the server-global reservation i…
CVE-2025-30157UShigh7.5—
Envoy is a cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy. Prior to 1.33.1, 1.32.4, 1.31.6, and 1.30.10, Envoy's ext_proc HTTP filter is at risk of crashing if a local rep…
CVE-2024-20354UShigh7.4—
A vulnerability in the handling of encrypted wireless frames of Cisco Aironet Access Point (AP) Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a denial of serv…
CVE-2024-0316UShigh7.5—
Improper cleanup vulnerability in exceptions thrown in FireEye Endpoint Security, affecting version 5.2.0.958244. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to send multiple reques…
CVE-2023-46393UShigh7.5—
gougucms v4.08.18 was discovered to contain a password reset poisoning vulnerability which allows attackers to arbitrarily reset users' passwords via a crafted packet.
CVE-2021-34716UShigh7.2—
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Expressway Series and Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server (VCS) could allow an authenticated, remote attack…
CVE-2018-18073USmedium6.3—
Artifex Ghostscript allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging exposure of system operators in the saved execution stack in an error object.
CVE-2017-9657USmedium6.5—
Under specific 802.11 network conditions, a partial re-association of the Philips IntelliVue MX40 Version B.06.18 WLAN monitor to the central monitoring station is possible. In thi…
CVE-2026-86748USmedium6.1—
Snipe-IT versions before 8.7.0 wipe the database before validating the uploaded backup archive in the restore endpoint. Superusers uploading corrupted or invalid zip files trigger…
CVE-2024-49569USmedium5.7—
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme-rdma: unquiesce admin_q before destroy it Kernel will hang on destroy admin_q while we create ctrl failed…
CVE-2026-96273USmedium5.5—
Ghidra before 12.1.4 fails to validate the TYPE_COL byte in OptionsDB.createUnregisteredOption(), causing an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException that leaves domain objects permanently l…
CVE-2025-21974USmedium5.5—
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: eth: bnxt: return fail if interface is down in bnxt_queue_mem_alloc() The bnxt_queue_mem_alloc() is called to…
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