CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource

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The product uses or accesses a resource that has not been initialized.

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parent weaknesses

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child weaknesses

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vulnerabilities (1064)

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IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2026-85880UShigh7.8OT criticalKEV
Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows ALPC allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
CVE-2025-5777UShigh7.5OT criticalKEV
Insufficient input validation leading to memory overread when the NetScaler is configured as a Gateway (VPN virtual server, ICA Proxy, CVPN, RDP Proxy) OR AAA virtual server
CVE-2024-50302USmedium5.5OT criticalKEV
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: core: zero-initialize the report buffer Since the report buffer is used by all kinds of drivers in variou…
CVE-2024-29745USmedium5.5OT criticalKEV
there is a possible Information Disclosure due to uninitialized data. This could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interacti…
CVE-2008-0081UScritical9.8Exploit
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3 through 2003 SP2, Viewer 2003, and Office 2004 for Mac allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via cra…
CVE-2011-1255UShigh9.3Exploit
The Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions (aka HTML+TIME) implementation in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8 does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remot…
CVE-2007-1751UShigh9.3—
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 6, and 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by causing Internet Explorer to access an uninitialized or deleted object, related to p…
CVE-2002-2281UShigh10.0Exploit
Symantec Java! JIT (Just-In-Time) Compiler for Netscape Communicator 4.0 through 4.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Java commands via an applet that uses a jump call,…
CVE-2008-3475UShigh8.8—
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 does not properly handle errors related to using the componentFromPoint method on xml objects that have been (1) incorrectly initialized or (2) delete…
CVE-2012-1891UShigh9.3—
Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8 SP1 and SP2 and Windows Data Access Components (WDAC) 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary cod…
CVE-2011-1995UShigh9.3—
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 9 does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by accessing an object that was not prop…
CVE-2010-3346UShigh9.3—
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by accessing an object that (1) was not…
CVE-2010-3345UShigh9.3—
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by accessing an object that (1) was not properly i…
CVE-2010-3343UShigh9.3—
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by accessing an object that (1) was not properly i…
CVE-2010-2559UShigh9.3—
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by accessing an object that (1) was not properly i…
CVE-2010-2557UShigh9.3—
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by accessing an object that (1) was not properly i…
CVE-2010-2556UShigh9.3—
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by accessing an object that (1) was not…
CVE-2009-1529UShigh9.3—
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP SP2 and SP3; 7 for Server 2003 SP2; 7 for Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2; and 7 for Server 2008 SP2 does not properly handle objects in memor…
CVE-2009-0949UShigh7.5Exploit
The ippReadIO function in cups/ipp.c in cupsd in CUPS before 1.3.10 does not properly initialize memory for IPP request packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of…
CVE-2009-2692UShigh7.8Exploit
The Linux kernel 2.6.0 through 2.6.30.4, and 2.4.4 through 2.4.37.4, does not initialize all function pointers for socket operations in proto_ops structures, which allows local use…
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