Weakness (CWE)
CWE-617: Reachable Assertion
The product contains an assert() or similar statement that can be triggered by an attacker, which leads to an application exit or other behavior that is more severe than necessary.
How to prevent it (4 mitigations)
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Implementation
If the assertion statement is required (e.g., for security or reliability), change the invoking code to avoid the conditions that trigger the assertion.
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Implementation
Consider changing the assertion to some other less "fatal" error. This might not be easy to implement, since other code may be needed to handle the error.
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Implementation
Make sensitive open/close operations non-reachable from directly user-controlled data (e.g. open/close resources)
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Implementation
Perform input validation on user data.
Source: MITRE CWE-617
578 results · Feed
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Medium 4.7
FFmpeg through 9.0.2 Assertion Failure DoS via cbs_jpeg_assemble_fragment
FFmpeg through 9.0.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability in cbs_jpeg_assemble_fragment() that miscounts 0xff stuffing bytes in JPEG scan headers. Attackers can supply a crafted JPEG/MJPEG stream with 0xff in the scan header, triggering an av_assert0 ab…
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Medium 4.7
FFmpeg 8.1 through 9.0.2 Denial of Service via DPX Vulkan Hwaccel Error Path
FFmpeg 8.1 through 9.0.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability in libavcodec/dpx.c that leaves dpx->hwaccel_picture_private allocated when Vulkan hwaccel callbacks fail. Attackers can supply crafted DPX images that make start_frame, decode_slice or end_f…
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Medium 5.5
FFmpeg through 9.0.2 Reachable Assertion in libxevd EVC Decoder Wrapper
FFmpeg through 9.0.2 contains a reachable assertion vulnerability in libxevd_receive_frame() in libavcodec/libxevd.c that returns success when an access unit produces no frame. Attackers can supply a crafted EVC file with truncated or picture-less access unit…
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Medium 4.7
FFmpeg 8.1 through 9.0.2 Denial of Service via lcevc_metadata Bitstream Filter
FFmpeg 8.1 through 9.0.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the lcevc_metadata bitstream filter caused by a process block position mismatch in lcevc_metadata_handle_vui(). Attackers can supply crafted LCEVC access units with two IDR or non-IDR NAL …
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Medium 5.5
FFmpeg through 9.0.2 TTA Encoder Reachable Assertion via tta_encode_frame()
FFmpeg through 9.0.2 contains a reachable assertion vulnerability in the TTA encoder's tta_encode_frame() in libavcodec/ttaenc.c, which never reserves output packet space for the 4-byte CRC. Attackers can supply audio whose sample values and length produce a …
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Medium 6.5
This Power System update is being released to address
IBM Power Systems Firmware FW1060.00 through FW1060.81, OP940.00 through OP940.A2, OP910.00 through OP910.95, and OP940.00 through OP940.82 could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service due to improper validation of input length.
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Medium 6.5
Trendyol kafka-konsumer 2.3.3 before 2.6.18 Denial of Service via Batch Consumer Panic
Trendyol kafka-konsumer from 2.3.3 before 2.6.18 contains a denial of service vulnerability in batch_consumer.go that panics when a single record exceeds MessageGroupByteSizeLimit. Attackers able to produce to the consumed topic can publish one oversized reco…
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Medium 5.9
Zebra zebrad before 7.0.0 Reachable Assertion DoS via Peer Disconnection
ZcashFoundation Zebra zebrad before 7.0.0 contains a reachable assertion race condition that allows unauthenticated remote peers to abort the node by triggering disconnection during a blocked outbound send. Malicious peers can return empty FindBlocks or FindH…
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Medium 6.2
Dbus: dbus-daemon: dbus-daemon aborts (reply_serial != 0) when a broadcast from the driver cannot be delivered to a monitored bus
A flaw was found in D-Bus. With a privileged Monitoring client attached (for example dbus-monitor or busctl monitor), an unprivileged local user can cause dbus-daemon to abort if a driver-originated broadcast such as NameOwnerChanged or ActivatableServicesCha…
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High 7.5
FreeRDP before 3.32.2 Unauthenticated Denial of Service via CredSSP TSRequest
FreeRDP before 3.32.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the NLA-enabled shadow server when a CredSSP TSRequest omits negoTokens. Unauthenticated attackers can send a crafted seven-byte TSRequest containing only the version field to trigger a fatal…
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High 7.5
FreeRDP 3.0.0 before 3.32.2 Denial of Service via Slow-Path Input Event
FreeRDP 3.0.0 before 3.32.2 server-side RDP peer input parsing skips the six-byte body of a slow-path input event with an unknown message type without checking it lies within the packet's declared length, causing a WinPR stream assertion failure. A remote RDP…
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High 7.1
remote abort and memory disclosure from a malformed cursor.ns
The MongoDB C Driver does not validate the type or format of a namespace field returned by the server in a query response. A MongoDB endpoint that a client application connects to, without needing any credentials, can return a malformed value in that field. T…
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Medium 5.9
FreeRDP before 3.32.2 Denial of Service via Oversized X.224 Routing Token
FreeRDP before 3.32.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows malicious servers or unauthenticated peers to abort clients or proxies via oversized X.224 routing tokens. Attackers can send an oversized LoadBalanceInfo in a Server Redirection PDU…
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Medium 4.3
FreeRDP before 3.32.2 Client Denial of Service via Zero-Output ZGFX Payload
FreeRDP before 3.32.2 allows a client assertion abort because rdpgfx_on_data_received rejects only negative zgfx_decompress status and passes the resulting null output pointer to Stream_StaticConstInit. A malicious RDP server can send a zero-output ZGFX paylo…
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Medium 4.3
FreeRDP 3.0.0 before 3.32.2 denial of service via RTS padding assertion
FreeRDP clients from 3.0.0 before 3.32.2 built with verbose WinPR assertions contain a reachable assertion in rts_read_auth_verifier triggered by malformed RTS padding. Attackers controlling an RD Gateway can send a crafted RPC-over-HTTP RTS PDU with inconsis…
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Medium 6.5
FreeRDP before 3.32.2 Denial of Service via RemoteFX RLGR decoder
FreeRDP from 3.11.0 before 3.32.2 contains an assertion failure in the RemoteFX RLGR decoder that allows malicious servers to terminate clients. Attackers controlling an RDP server can send a RemoteFX tileset with RLGR code 32767, triggering a signed narrowin…
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Medium 6.5
FreeRDP 3.17.0 before 3.32.2 Denial of Service via RemoteFX Decoder
FreeRDP from 3.17.0 before 3.32.2 contains an assertion failure in the RemoteFX differential decoder when verbose WinPR assertions are enabled. A malicious RDP server can send a crafted RemoteFX tile with adjacent LL3 coefficients summing beyond signed 16-bit…
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Medium 6.5
FreeRDP 3.0.0 before 3.32.2 Denial of Service via RemoteFX Region Assertion
FreeRDP from 3.0.0 before 3.32.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows malicious RDP servers to abort clients built with verbose WinPR assertions by sending crafted RemoteFX region rectangles. Attackers can supply a rectangle with x set to 65…
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Medium 4.3
FreeRDP before 3.32.2 Null Pointer Crash via ARM Gateway Response
FreeRDP 3.0.0 before 3.32.2 built with WITH_AAD=ON contains a reachable assertion because its ARM gateway response parser accepts a missing or non-string redirectedServerCert field and passes a null buffer to the certificate parser. A malicious or malformed u…
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Low 3.1
FreeRDP 3.27.0 before 3.32.2 Client DoS via RDPDR Device Announcement Logging
FreeRDP from 3.27.0 before 3.32.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability in rdpdr_dump_packet that allows malicious RDP servers to abort clients by sending malformed RDPDR device-list announcements. Attackers can declare a DeviceDataLength exceeding the r…
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Medium 6.5
Gst-plugins-good: assertion failures in FLV demuxer when parsing malformed enhanced audio/video tags
A flaw was found in GStreamer's gst-plugins-good package. The FLV media demuxer does not properly validate buffer sizes and data availability when processing enhanced audio and video tags in malformed or truncated FLV streams. A remote attacker could exploit …
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Medium 5.3
In Modem, there is a possible application crash due to a logic error. This could lead to remote denial of service, if a…
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Medium 5.3
In Modem, there is a possible application crash due to improper input validation. This could lead to remote denial of s…
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Medium 5.5
Tesseract: Crafted LSTM model (`WeightMatrix` mode byte) triggers `ASSERT_HOST` abort in `WeightMatrix::DeSerializeOld` under `FAST_FLOAT` — Denial of Service
Tesseract is an open source OCR engine. Prior to 5.5.4, WeightMatrix::DeSerialize trusts a mode byte from a traineddata LSTM network and calls WeightMatrix::DeSerializeOld when kDoubleFlag is clear. In default FAST_FLOAT builds, DeSerializeOld invokes ASSERT_…
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Medium 4.8
Wasmtime 46.0.0 before 48.0.6 and 49.0.0 before 49.0.3 Host Panic via call_async Drop
Wasmtime 46.0.0 before 48.0.6 and 49.0.0 before 49.0.3 contains a denial of service vulnerability where dropping the Future returned by TypedFunc::call_async can panic the host. When the guest task has not started, cleanup code searches only one location for …
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Medium 4.8
Wasmtime 46.0.0 before 48.0.6 and 49.0.0 before 49.0.3 Host Panic via Func::call
Wasmtime 46.0.0 before 48.0.6 and 49.0.0 before 49.0.3 contains a leftover assertion in component::Func::call that rejects guest exports using the async ABI option. An attacker who supplies a component with an async-lifted export can crash the host process wh…
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Medium 4.8
Wasmtime 46.0.0 before 48.0.6 and 49.0.0 before 49.0.3 Panic After Trap
Wasmtime 46.0.0 before 48.0.6 and 49.0.0 before 49.0.3 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows pending calls to trigger an assertion failure after a trap poisons the Store. Attackers supplying misbehaving guest code can cause a trap and let ear…
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Medium 4.8
Wasmtime 46.0.0 before 48.0.6 and 49.0.0 before 49.0.3 Panic via StreamReader Type Mismatch
Wasmtime 46.0.0 before 48.0.6 and 49.0.0 before 49.0.3 panics when the host reads a component model stream as a different Rust item type than it was created with, because the host-to-host read path asserts matching TypeIds instead of returning an error. Guest…
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Medium 4.8
Wasmtime 49.0.0 before 49.0.3 Host Panic via Overlapping String Transcode in Fused Adapter
Wasmtime from 49.0.0 before 49.0.3 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability that allows a WebAssembly guest to trigger a host panic by transcoding overlapping strings in fused adapters. Attackers can make a same-instance component-to-component call transfer…
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Medium 5.3
ggml-org llama.cpp Mirostat Sampler llama-sampler.cpp assertion
A security flaw has been discovered in ggml-org llama.cpp up to 0.7.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file src/llama-sampler.cpp of the component Mirostat Sampler. The manipulation results in reachable assertion. It is possi…
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Medium 6.5
vLLM DeepSeek-OCR image processing vulnerable to denial of service
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models. From 0.11.1 until 0.32.0, the DeepSeek-OCR, DeepSeek-OCR-2, and Unlimited-OCR image path allows a remote client that can reach the OpenAI-compatible API to submit a legal image whose normalize…
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High 7.1
Bluetooth OTS server discloses uninitialized stack memory in failed Calculate Checksum responses
The Object Transfer Service server builds its Object Action Control Point (OACP) response indication in oacp_ind_send() (subsys/bluetooth/services/ots/ots_oacp.c). Before this fix the four-byte Checksum Value field was appended whenever the requested op code …
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High 7.5
Cisco Expressway Series Software Hardening Release: October 2026 - Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Expressway Series software engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in software hardening releases that address mul…
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High 7.5
Reachable Assertion in ntpsec
Reachable exit in NTPsec ntpd 1.1.4 through 1.2.5 allows a remote attacker to terminate the daemon via an NTS request with excess NTS Cookie Placeholder extension fields.
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High 7.5
Specific RPZ configurations and query patterns may result in an unexpected exit
A recursive BIND server that receives a query with recursion desired (RD=1) followed by a non-recursive query (RD=0) may exit with an assertion failure, resulting in a denial of service. To be vulnerable, the BIND server must allow recursive queries and have …
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High 7.5
Named may terminate unexpectedly when a redirect zone is used with strict QNAME minimization
A BIND resolver that is configured with both a "redirect" zone and "qname-minimization strict" may abort with an assertion failure while processing the redirect. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.16.0 through 9.18.50, 9.20.0 through 9.20.29, 9.21.0 through…
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High 7.5
Apache bRPC: Reachable Assertion in Socket::OnInputEvent Allows Remote Denial of Service
A reachable assertion in Apache bRPC (version < 1.18.0) on all platforms allows a malicious remote peer to crash the process, resulting in denial of service. Root Cause: When a Socket with health checking enabled fails, Socket::WaitAndReset closes its file de…
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High 7.5
Apache bRPC: Remote denial of service (crash) via malformed stream feedback frames
Enforceable assertion in the streaming feature of Apache bRPC (version < 1.18.0) on all platforms allows a remote attacker to crash the server process by sending a malformed stream feedback frame. Root Cause: When handling FRAME_TYPE_FEEDBACK frames, bRPC cal…
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High 7.5
Apache bRPC: Remote Denial of Service via Out-of-Bounds Dynamic Table Sizing in HPACK Decoder
A reachable-assertion flaw in the HPACK header-compression decoder of the HTTP/2 (h2/gRPC) stack in Apache bRPC (version < 1.18.0) on all platforms allows a remote attacker to crash the server process by sending a crafted sequence of HPACK headers, resulting …
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Critical 9.1
Apache bRPC: Out-of-Bounds Write in Redis Command Parser
The Redis server command parser in Apache bRPC accepts an empty RESP array as a command header. A remote unauthenticated attacker who can reach a bRPC server with Redis service enabled can send an empty array header followed by a bulk string, causing an out-o…