Weakness (CWE)
CWE-416: Use After Free
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
How to prevent it (2 mitigations)
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Architecture and Design
Choose a language that provides automatic memory management.
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Implementation
When freeing pointers, be sure to set them to NULL once they are freed. However, the utilization of multiple or complex data structures may lower the usefulness of this strategy.
Source: MITRE CWE-416
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Medium 5.4CVE-2026-84118 Public exploit
Use-after-free in the JavaScript: GC component
Use-after-free in the JavaScript: GC component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 155, Firefox ESR 153.2, Thunderbird 155, and Thunderbird 153.2.
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Medium 6.3CVE-2026-54900 Public exploit
Oj: Negative-Size memcpy in Oj::Parser create_id Attribute Handling
Oj (Optimized JSON) is a JSON parser and Object marshaller packaged as a Ruby gem. In versions prior to 3.17.2, when in usual mode with create_id enabled, Oj::Parser#parse is vulnerable to heap corruption via a negative-size memcpy. When a JSON object key is …
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Medium 5.4CVE-2026-4390 Public exploit
TeamSpeak 3 Server Connection State Management process_resend_queue use after free
A weakness has been identified in TeamSpeak 3 Server up to 3.13.7. This affects the function process_resend_queue of the component Connection State Management. This manipulation causes use after free. The attack may be initiated remotely. Upgrading to version…
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Medium 4.8CVE-2026-40701 Public exploit
NGINX ngx_http_ssl_module vulnerability
NGINX Plus and NGINX Open Source have a vulnerability in the ngx_http_ssl_module module when the ssl_verify_client directive is set to "on" or "optional," and the ssl_ocsp directive is set to "on" or the leaf parameters are configured with a resolver. With th…
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Medium 6.1CVE-2026-23631 Public exploit
redis-server Lua use-after-free may allow remote code execution
Redis is an in-memory data structure store. In all versions of redis-server with Lua scripting, an authenticated attacker can exploit the master-replica synchronization mechanism to trigger a use-after-free on replicas where replica-read-only is disabled or c…
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Medium 6.2CVE-2026-20637 Public exploit
A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.7.7 and iPadOS 18.7…
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Medium 4.0CVE-2025-8045 Public exploit
Mali GPU Kernel Driver allows improper GPU processing operations
Use After Free vulnerability in Arm Ltd Valhall GPU Kernel Driver, Arm Ltd Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver allows a local non-privileged user process to perform improper GPU processing operations to gain access to already freed memory.This issue af…
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Medium 5.9CVE-2024-1065 Public exploit
Mali GPU Kernel Driver allows improper GPU memory processing operations
Use After Free vulnerability in Arm Ltd Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver, Arm Ltd Valhall GPU Kernel Driver, Arm Ltd Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver allows a local non-privileged user to make improper GPU memory processing operations to gain access to alr…
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Medium 5.3CVE-2022-2602 Public exploit
io_uring UAF, Unix SCM garbage collection
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Medium 5.3CVE-2022-2588 Public exploit
It was discovered that the cls_route filter implementation in the Linux kernel would not remove an old filter from the …
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Medium 5.3
It was discovered that a nft object or expression could reference a nft set on a different nft table, leading to a use-…
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Medium 5.9CVE-2023-4813 Public exploit
Glibc: potential use-after-free in gaih_inet()
A flaw has been identified in glibc. In an uncommon situation, the gaih_inet function may use memory that has been freed, resulting in an application crash. This issue is only exploitable when the getaddrinfo function is called and the hosts database in /etc/…
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Medium 5.3CVE-2023-1999 Public exploit
Use after free in libwebp
There exists a use after free/double free in libwebp. An attacker can use the ApplyFiltersAndEncode() function and loop through to free best.bw and assign best = trial pointer. The second loop will then return 0 because of an Out of memory error in VP8 encode…
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Medium 5.5CVE-2022-41218 Public exploit
In drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c in the Linux kernel through 5.19.10, there is a use-after-free caused by refcount ra…
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Medium 6.5
Use-After-Free in puppeteer
Object lifetime issue in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 72.0.3626.121 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform out of bounds memory access via a crafted HTML page.
KEV May 23, 2022