CWE-775 Missing Release of File Descriptor or Handle after Effective Lifetime
variantThe product does not release a file descriptor or handle after its effective lifetime has ended, i.e., after the file descriptor/handle is no longer needed.
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Known CVEs related to this entry.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
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| CVE-2026-78408US | high7.9 | — | ||
The nsenter --join-cgroup option opens the target cgroup.procs file as root and leaves that file descriptor open across later namespace and credential changes and across execve().… | ||||
| CVE-2021-37851US | high7.8 | — | ||
Local privilege escalation in Windows products of ESET allows user who is logged into the system to exploit repair feature of the installer to run malicious code with higher privil… | ||||
| CVE-2016-8819US | high7.8 | — | ||
All versions of NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contain a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape where a handle to a kernel object may be… | ||||
| CVE-2017-8452US | high7.5 | — | ||
Kibana versions prior to 5.2.1 configured for SSL client access, file descriptors will fail to be cleaned up after certain requests and will accumulate over time until the process… | ||||
| CVE-2026-45287US | medium5.5 | — | ||
OpenTelemetry-Go is the Go implementation of OpenTelemetry. Prior to version 0.0.17, `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/schema/v1.0` and `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/schema/v1.1` leaks one fil… | ||||
| CVE-2026-43445US | medium5.5 | — | ||
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
e1000/e1000e: Fix leak in DMA error cleanup
If an error is encountered while mapping TX buffers, the driver sh… | ||||
| CVE-2019-25557US | medium5.5 | — | ||
TwistedBrush Pro Studio 24.06 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by importing a malformed .srp script file. Attackers c… | ||||
| CVE-2025-13751US | medium5.5 | — | ||
Interactive service agent in OpenVPN version 2.5.0 through 2.6.16 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7_rc2 on Windows allows a local authenticated user to connect to the service and trigger… | ||||
| CVE-2024-56749US | medium5.5 | — | ||
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dlm: fix dlm_recover_members refcount on error
If dlm_recover_members() fails we don't drop the references of… | ||||
| CVE-2020-11743US | medium5.5 | — | ||
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.13.x, allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service because of a bad error path in GNTTABOP_map_grant. Grant table operations are ex… | ||||
| CVE-2026-105400US | medium5.3 | — | ||
Rejected reason: This CVE ID has been rejected as a duplicate. | ||||
| CVE-2026-110831US | medium4.3 | — | ||
FreeRDP versions 3.13.0 before 3.32.0 contain a resource retention flaw in drive_process_irp_create, which registers an opened local file in the drive dictionary before applying th… | ||||
| CVE-2026-98784US | — | — | ||
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdgpu/gfx6: fix firmware leak on teardown
The firmware requested in gfx_v6_0_init_microcode() is not rele… | ||||
| CVE-2026-106575US | — | — | ||
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to 7.1.2-31, a crafted Magick script can cause an opened file pointer to remain… | ||||
| CVE-2025-53476US | — | — | ||
A denial of service vulnerability exists in the ModbusTCP server functionality of OpenPLC _v3 a931181e8b81e36fadf7b74d5cba99b73c3f6d58. A specially crafted series of network connec… | ||||
| CVE-2024-24444US | — | — | ||
Improper file descriptor handling for closed connections in OpenAirInterface CN5G AMF (oai-cn5g-amf) up to v2.0.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by repeatedly… | ||||
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