Weakness (CWE)
CWE-754: Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
The product does not check or incorrectly checks for unusual or exceptional conditions that are not expected to occur frequently during day to day operation of the product.
How to prevent it (7 mitigations)
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Requirements
Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
Choose languages with features such as exception handling that force the programmer to anticipate unusual conditions that may generate exceptions. Custom exceptions may need to be developed to handle unusual business-logic conditions. Be careful not to pass sensitive exceptions back to the user (CWE-209, CWE-248).
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Implementation
Check the results of all functions that return a value and verify that the value is expected.
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Implementation
If using exception handling, catch and throw specific exceptions instead of overly-general exceptions (CWE-396, CWE-397). Catch and handle exceptions as locally as possible so that exceptions do not propagate too far up the call stack (CWE-705). Avoid unchecked or uncaught exceptions where feasible (CWE-248).
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Implementation
Ensure that error messages only contain minimal details that are useful to the intended audience and no one else. The messages need to strike the balance between being too cryptic (which can confuse users) or being too detailed (which may reveal more than intended). The messages should not reveal the methods that were used to determine the error. Attackers can use detailed information to refine or optimize their original attack, thereby increasing their chances of success.
If errors must be captured in some detail, record them in log messages, but consider what could occur if the log messages can be viewed by attackers. Highly sensitive information such as passwords should never be saved to log files.
Avoid inconsistent messaging that might accidentally tip off an attacker about internal state, such as whether a user account exists or not.
Exposing additional information to a potential attacker in the context of an exceptional condition can help the attacker determine what attack vectors are most likely to succeed beyond DoS.
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Implementation
Assume all input is malicious. Use an "accept known good" input validation strategy, i.e., use a list of acceptable inputs that strictly conform to specifications. Reject any input that does not strictly conform to specifications, or transform it into something that does.
When performing input validation, consider all potentially relevant properties, including length, type of input, the full range of acceptable values, missing or extra inputs, syntax, consistency across related fields, and conformance to business rules. As an example of business rule logic, "boat" may be syntactically valid because it only contains alphanumeric characters, but it is not valid if the input is only expected to contain colors such as "red" or "blue."
Do not rely exclusively on looking for malicious or malformed inputs. This is likely to miss at least one undesirable input, especially if the code's environment changes. This can give attackers enough room to bypass the intended validation. However, denylists can be useful for detecting potential attacks or determining which inputs are so malformed that they should be rejected outright.
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Architecture and Design, Implementation
If the program must fail, ensure that it fails gracefully (fails closed). There may be a temptation to simply let the program fail poorly in cases such as low memory conditions, but an attacker may be able to assert control before the software has fully exited. Alternately, an uncontrolled failure could cause cascading problems with other downstream components; for example, the program could send a signal to a downstream process so the process immediately knows that a problem has occurred and has a better chance of recovery.
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Architecture and Design
Use system limits, which should help to prevent resource exhaustion. However, the product should still handle low resource conditions since they may still occur.
Source: MITRE CWE-754
535 results · Feed
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High 8.8
iccDEV has Type Confusion in CIccSegmentedCurveXml::ToXml() at IccXML/IccLibXML/IccMpeXml.cpp
iccDEV provides a set of libraries and tools that allow for the interaction, manipulation, and application of International Color Consortium (ICC) color management profiles. Versions prior to 2.3.1.2 have a Type Confusion vulnerability in `CIccSegmentedCurveX…
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Medium 6.5
iccDEV has Type Confusion in CIccProfileXml::ParseBasic() at IccXML/IccLibXML/IccProfileXml.cpp
iccDEV provides a set of libraries and tools that allow for the interaction, manipulation, and application of International Color Consortium (ICC) color management profiles. Versions prior to 2.3.1.2 have a Type Confusion vulnerability in `CIccProfileXml::Par…
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Medium 6.5
Improper implementation of Modbus protocol leading to DOS attack
Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in ABB WebPro SNMP Card PowerValue, ABB WebPro SNMP Card PowerValue UL.This issue affects WebPro SNMP Card PowerValue: through 1.1.8.K; WebPro SNMP Card PowerValue UL: through 1.1.8.K.
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Medium 6.5
In Modem, there is a possible system crash due to incorrect error handling. This could lead to remote denial of service…
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Medium 5.3
CHOCO TEI WATCHER mini (IB-MCT001) contains an issue with improper check for unusual or exceptional conditions. When th…
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High 7.5
CHOCO TEI WATCHER mini (IB-MCT001) contains an issue with improper check for unusual or exceptional conditions. If a re…
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High 8.0
Sandbox escape due to incorrect boundary conditions in the Graphics: CanvasWebGL component
Sandbox escape due to incorrect boundary conditions in the Graphics: CanvasWebGL component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 146, Firefox ESR 115.31, Firefox ESR 140.6, Thunderbird 146, and Thunderbird 140.6.
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High 7.5
NVIDIA Triton Inference Server contains a vulnerability where an attacker may cause an improper check for unusual or ex…
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Medium 4.7
WebAssembly Micro Runtime vulnerable to a segmentation fault in v128.store instruction
WebAssembly Micro Runtime (WAMR) is a lightweight standalone WebAssembly (Wasm) runtime. Prior to version 2.4.4, WAMR is susceptible to a segmentation fault in v128.store instruction. This issue has been patched in version 2.4.4.
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Medium 6.9
Local DoS in OpenSMTPD via UNIX domain socket smtpd.sock
An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in OpenSMTPD allows local users to crash OpenSMTPD. This issue affects openSUSE Tumbleweed: from ? before 7.8.0p0-1.1.
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Medium 5.3
Drupal core - Moderately critical - Denial of Service - SA-CORE-2025-005
Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Drupal Drupal core allows Forceful Browsing.This issue affects Drupal core: from 8.0.0 before 10.4.9, from 10.5.0 before 10.5.6, from 11.0.0 before 11.1.9, from 11.2.0 before 11.2.8.
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Medium 6.9
ESF-IDF's ESP32 Bluetooth Controller Has an Invalid Access Address Vulnerability
ESF-IDF is the Espressif Internet of Things (IOT) Development Framework. When the ESP32 is in advertising mode, if it receives a connection request containing an invalid Access Address (AA) of 0x00000000 or 0xFFFFFFFF, advertising may stop unexpectedly. In th…
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Medium 6.6
PAN-OS: Firewall Denial of Service (DoS) Using Specially Crafted Packets
A denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an unauthenticated attacker to reboot a firewall by sending a specially crafted packet through the dataplane. Repeated attempts to initiate a reboot causes the firewall to e…
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Low 3.3
Improper conditions check for some Intel(R) QAT Windows software before version 2.6.0. within Ring 3: User Applications…
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Medium 5.0
Malformed KMIP response may result in access violation
The KMIP response parser built into mongo binaries is overly tolerant of certain malformed packets, and may parse them into invalid objects. Later reads of this object can result in read access violations.
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Medium 5.0
InventoryGui affected by item duplication in GUIs which use GuiStorageElement
InventoryGui is a library for creating chest GUIs for Bukkit/Spigot plugins. Versions 1.6.1-SNAPSHOT and earlier contain a vulnerability where any plugin using the `GuiStorageElement can allow item duplication when the experimental Bundle item feature is enab…
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Medium 5.5
Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinKNOW Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
Oxford Nanopore Technologies' MinKNOW software at or prior to version 24.11 creates a temporary file to store the local authentication token during startup, before copying it to its final location. This temporary file is created in a directory accessible to a…
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Medium 4.3
Mastodon quotes control can be bypassed
Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. In Mastodon version 4.4, support for verifiable quote posts with quote controls was added, but it is possible for an attacker to bypass these controls in Mastodon versions prior to 4.…
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Critical 10.0
Incorrect Content-Type Header
Incorrect Content-Type header in one of the APIs (`text/html` instead of `application/json`) replies may potentially allow injection of HTML/JavaScript into reply.This issue affects BLU-IC2: through 1.19.5; BLU-IC4: through 1.19.5.
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Medium 6.1
Mattermost Desktop DoS when user has basic authentication server configured
Mattermost Desktop App versions <=5.13.0 fail to manage modals in the Mattermost Desktop App that stops a user with a server that uses basic authentication from accessing their server which allows an attacker that provides a malicious server to the user to de…
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Medium 5.0
An improper check or handling of exceptional conditions vulnerability [CWE-703] in FortiOS version 7.4.0 through 7.4.3 …
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High 7.5
Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: Specific BGP EVPN update message causes rpd crash
An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-Of-Service (DoS). When an affected…
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Medium 6.5
Junos OS Evolved: PTX Series: When a firewall filter rejects traffic these packets are erroneously sent to the RE
An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved on PTX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause impact to confidentiality and availabilit…
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High 8.7
@plone/volto vulnerable to potential DoS by invoking specific URL by anonymous user
Volto is a ReactJS-based frontend for the Plone Content Management System. Versions 16.34.0 and below, 17.0.0 through 17.22.1, 18.0.0 through 18.27.1, and 19.0.0-alpha.1 through 19.0.0-alpha.5, an anonymous user could cause the NodeJS server part of Volto to …
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Medium 6.9
Kata Containers coco-tdx malicious host can circumvent initdata verification
Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. In Kata Containers versions from 3.20.0 and before, a malicious host can circumvent initdata verification. On T…
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Medium 6.5
Incorrect boundary conditions in the JavaScript: GC component
Incorrect boundary conditions in the JavaScript: GC component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 143, Firefox ESR 140.3, Thunderbird 143, and Thunderbird 140.3.
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Medium 5.8
Cache exploitation vulnerability
In Content Management versions 20.4- 25.3 authenticated attackers may exploit a complex cache poisoning technique to download unprotected files from the server if the filenames are known.
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Critical 9.8
tls: fix handling of zero-length records on the rx_list
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tls: fix handling of zero-length records on the rx_list Each recvmsg() call must process either - only contiguous DATA records (any number of them) - one non-DATA record If the next record ha…
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Medium 6.0CVE-2025-9998 Public exploit
Improper validation of packets sequencing
The sequence of packets received by a Networking server are not correctly checked. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to send specially crafted messages to force the application to stop.
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High 8.4
In VerifyNoOverlapInSessions of apexd.cpp, there is a possible way to block security updates due to a logic error in th…
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High 7.1
Firebird Non-Authorized Access to Encrypted Database Using Execute Statement on External
Firebird is a relational database. Prior to snapshot versions 4.0.6.3183, 5.0.2.1610, and 6.0.0.609, Firebird is vulnerable if ExtConnPoolSize is not set equal to 0. If connections stored in ExtConnPool are not verified for presence and suitability of the Cry…
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High 7.8
Improper check for unusual or exceptional conditions in the Linux kernel-mode driver for some Intel(R) 800 Series Ether…
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High 7.4
Improper conditions check for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi Software for Windows before version 23.110.0.5 may all…
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High 8.2
Improper check for unusual or exceptional conditions in the Linux kernel-mode driver for some Intel(R) 800 Series Ether…
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High 7.5
A vulnerability has been identified in SIPROTEC 4 6MD61 (All versions), SIPROTEC 4 6MD63 (All versions), SIPROTEC 4 6MD…
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Medium 5.9
Unexpected Input to Cloud Webhook endpoint Causes DoS in Mattermost Confluence Plugin
Mattermost Confluence Plugin version <1.5.0 fails to handle unexpected request body which allows attackers to crash the plugin via constant hit to server webhook endpoint with an invalid request body.
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Medium 5.9
Unexpected Input to Server Webhook endpoint Causes DoS in Mattermost Confluence Plugin
Mattermost Confluence Plugin version <1.5.0 fails to handle unexpected request body which allows attackers to crash the plugin via constant hit to server webhook endpoint with an invalid request body.
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High 7.5
Unexpected input to Update Channel Subscription endpoint causes DoS in Mattermost Confluence Plugin
Mattermost Confluence Plugin version <1.5.0 fails to handle unexpected request body which allows attackers to crash the plugin via constant hit to update channel subscription endpoint with an invalid request body.
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Low 3.0CVE-2025-52136 Public exploit
In EMQX before 5.8.6, administrators can install arbitrary novel plugins via the Dashboard web interface. NOTE: the Sup…
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High 7.5
The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5, iPadOS 17.7.9, macOS Seq…