Weakness (CWE)
CWE-772: Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
The product does not release a resource after its effective lifetime has ended, i.e., after the resource is no longer needed.
How to prevent it (3 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.
For example, languages such as Java, Ruby, and Lisp perform automatic garbage collection that releases memory for objects that have been deallocated.
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Implementation
It is good practice to be responsible for freeing all resources you allocate and to be consistent with how and where you free resources in a function. If you allocate resources that you intend to free upon completion of the function, you must be sure to free the resources at all exit points for that function including error conditions.
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Operation, Architecture and Design
Use resource-limiting settings provided by the operating system or environment. For example, when managing system resources in POSIX, setrlimit() can be used to set limits for certain types of resources, and getrlimit() can determine how many resources are available. However, these functions are not available on all operating systems.
When the current levels get close to the maximum that is defined for the application (see CWE-770), then limit the allocation of further resources to privileged users; alternately, begin releasing resources for less-privileged users. While this mitigation may protect the system from attack, it will not necessarily stop attackers from adversely impacting other users.
Ensure that the application performs the appropriate error checks and error handling in case resources become unavailable (CWE-703).
Source: MITRE CWE-772
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High 7.5
Krb5: mit krb5 gss-rpc client memory leak on xid mismatch retries
clnttcp_call() in lib/rpc/clnt_tcp.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) does not free the RPC reply verifier between retries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory leak in GSS-RPC client programs) by injecting RPC replies with mismatche…
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High 7.5
Krb5: mit krb5 kadmind unauthenticated memory leak dos via auth_gssapi_init error paths
The AUTH_GSSAPI handler in lib/rpc/svc_auth_gssapi.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) does not free decoded arguments on certain error paths, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion in kadmind) via crafted AUTH_GSSAPI_INIT re…
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High 7.5
Krb5: mit krb5 kadmind unauthenticated memory exhaustion via failed auth_gssapi_init requests
The AUTH_GSSAPI handler in lib/rpc/svc_auth_gssapi.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.5.2 and later allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion in kadmind) by sending repeated failed AUTH_GSSAPI_INIT requests. Each failed request all…
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High 8.8
Improper release of expired privileged access checkouts in the PAM scheduled check-in task in Devolutions Server 2025.3…
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High 8.7
NetX Secure DTLS server allocates a session for each new source before the cookie exchange and never reclaims it, so spoofed datagrams exhaust the session pool
In Eclipse ThreadX NetX Duo versions 6.0 through 6.5.2.202603a, the NetX Secure DTLS server allocates a session from its fixed session pool for the first datagram from any unrecognised address and port, before the cookie exchange, and never releases a session…
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High 8.7
Resource exhaustion from RPC sessions kept for requests to unknown interface
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High 8.7
Resource exhaustion from unreleased AR and RPC session on RPC requests with incorrect endianness
P-Net before 1.0.3 does not release the Application Relationship (AR) and the RPC session when an RPC request is rejected because its data representation has incorrect endianness. The session and its AR remain allocated, so repeated requests exhaust the avail…
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High 8.2
Echo: WebSocket proxy can retain connections and handlers after client disconnect
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High 7.5
Pydantic AI: Concurrency-limited models can keep their slot when a streamed request ends early
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High 8.2
Apache Thrift: Java `TSaslNonblockingServer` `Computation.run` orphans a connection on a pre-auth parse error
improper handling of exceptional conditions, Missing release of resource after effective lifetime vulnerability in Apache Thrift java bindings. This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.25.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.25.0, which fixes th…
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High 8.7
Apache Thrift: C++ `THeaderTransport::untransform()` leaks the zlib stream on the error path
Missing release of memory after effective lifetime, Missing release of resource after effective lifetime vulnerability in Apache Thrift THeaderTransport. This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.25.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.25.0, whic…
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High 7.1
NULL Pointer Dereference on MSRP Attribute Table Exhaustion
In Eclipse ThreadX NetX Duo versions 6.4.0 through 6.5.2.202603a, built with VLAN and SRP support, the MSRP attribute lookup writes through the null pointer returned by its allocator when the ten-entry attribute table is full. An unauthenticated station on th…
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High 7.5
Apache Tomcat: WebSocket DoS due to lost asynchronous write timeout
Missing release of resource after effective lifetime, Comparison using wrong factors vulnerability in Apache Tomcat allows a denial of service as a result of lost time outs for asynchronous WebSocket writes. This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 th…
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High 7.5
Apache Karaf: Improper release of ClassLoader references via static ThreadLocal caching
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High 7.5
InternLM LMDeploy through 0.17.0 Memory Exhaustion via Session ID Mismatch
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High 8.6
Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software for Firepower 3100 and 4200 Series DTLS Denial of Service Vulnerability
A vulnerability in Datagram TLS (DTLS) message handling of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software for Cisco Secure Firewall 3100 Series and 4200 Series devices could allow an un…
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High 7.5
RMCP: Unauthenticated permanent session-table leak in rmcp Streamable HTTP server transport leads to remote denial-of-service
RMCP is an official Rust SDK for the Model Context Protocol. Prior to 2.0.0, the rmcp crate's stateful Streamable HTTP server in crates/rmcp/src/transport/streamable_http_server/tower.rs allows an unauthenticated client to send a well-formed JSON-RPC POST tha…
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High 8.7
httpd parks a request worker indefinitely on a malformed chunk size sent after the headers
Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause denial of service by sending a request with a chunked body whose chunk-size line is not a hexadecimal number. The w…
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High 8.7
httpd applies no timeout while receiving a request body, parking a worker on a stalled client
Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause denial of service by sending valid request headers with a large Content-Length and then stalling before the body is…
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High 7.5
libp2p: Circuit relay v2 server reservation refresh leaks abort listeners and allows remote resource exhaustion
libp2p is a JavaScript implementation of the libp2p networking stack. Prior to version 4.2.9, the reservation refresh path in reservation-store.ts reuses the same retimeableSignal but unconditionally registers another abort listener on every refresh. As a res…
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High 7.1
The coturn server can end in a state where it does not accept more requests with "even-port" enabled.
Coturn is a free open source implementation of TURN and STUN Server. Prior to 4.17.0, turnports_allocate_even() in src/apps/relay/turn_ports.c marks the unused odd sibling port as TPS_TAKEN_ODD for an EVEN-PORT Allocate request with reservation bit R=0 even t…
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High 8.7
Zeroisation of sensitive key material on garbage collection relies on finalization
In Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) before bc-fips 1.0.2.7 (1.0.X series), 2.0.2 (2.0.X series) and 2.1.3 (2.1.X series), sensitive key material held by the AES and DESede engines, the SP 800-90A DRBGs, SymmetricSecretKey and the PBKD and scrypt parameter…
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High 7.7
Cisco IOS XE Software SNMP Denial of Service Vulnerability
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High 7.5CVE-2026-36590 Public exploit
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High —
Ech0: ParseAcceptLanguage `_` separator bypass enables ~70x CPU amplification via Accept-Language header in i18n.Middleware
### Summary Ech0's i18n middleware runs on every HTTP request and constructs a fresh `*goi18n.Localizer` from the raw `Accept-Language` header without imposing any size or shape filter. `goi18n.NewLocalizer` calls `golang.org/x/text/language.ParseAcceptLangua…
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High 7.5
net: Maliciously fragmented IPv6 packets can prevent receiving/processing future incoming packets
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High 8.7
Netty's Lack of Lifecycle Cleanup Leads to Pooled ByteBuf Leak in RedisArrayAggregator
Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. Prior to versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final, the RedisArrayAggregator handler permanently leaks pooled direct-memory buffers when a Redis pipeline connection closes…
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High 7.8
drm/xe: Fix dma-buf attachment leak in xe_gem_prime_import()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe: Fix dma-buf attachment leak in xe_gem_prime_import() When xe_dma_buf_init_obj() fails, the attachment from dma_buf_dynamic_attach() is not detached. Add dma_buf_detach() before return…
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High 7.8
RDMA/mlx4: Fix resource leak on error in mlx4_ib_create_srq()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/mlx4: Fix resource leak on error in mlx4_ib_create_srq() Sashiko points out that mlx4_srq_alloc() was not undone during error unwind, add the missing call to mlx4_srq_free().
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High 7.5
Netty: epoll transport denial of service via RST on half-closed TCP connection
Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. From 4.2.0.Final to 4.2.13.Final , Netty's epoll transport fails to detect and close TCP connections that receive a RST after being half-closed, leading to stale channels that are never cle…
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High 7.5
BIG-IP Configuration utility vulnerability
When the BIG-IP Configuration utility is configured to use Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) authentication, undisclosed traffic can cause the httpd process to exhaust the available file descriptors. Note: Software versions which have reached End …
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High 8.2
Improper resource management in CODESYS Modbus TCP Server
An unauthenticated remote attacker may exhaust all available TCP connections in the CODESYS Modbus TCP Server stack if a race condition in connection handling is successfully exploited, preventing legitimate clients from establishing new connections.
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High 7.5
Memory leak in code preparing DNSSEC proofs of non-existence
A specially crafted domain can be used to cause a memory leak in a BIND resolver simply by querying this domain. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.20.0 through 9.20.20, 9.21.0 through 9.21.19, and 9.20.9-S1 through 9.20.20-S1. BIND 9 versions 9.18.0 throug…
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High 7.5
UltraJSON has a Memory Leak parsing large integers allows DoS
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High 7.5
btrfs: fix reservation leak in some error paths when inserting inline extent
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High 7.5
blocklistd(8) socket leak
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High 7.5
Traefik: tcp router clears read deadlines before tls forwarding, enabling stalled handshakes (slowloris doS)
Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to versions 2.11.38 and 3.6.9, there is a potential vulnerability in Traefik managing TLS handshake on TCP routers. When Traefik processes a TLS connection on a TCP router, the read deadline used to bo…
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High 7.5
The Eclipse Jetty Server Artifact has a Gzip request memory leak
In Eclipse Jetty, versions 12.0.0-12.0.31 and 12.1.0-12.0.5, class GzipHandler exposes a vulnerability when a compressed HTTP request, with Content-Encoding: gzip, is processed and the corresponding response is not compressed. This happens because the JDK Inf…
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High 8.6
A vulnerability in the handling of the embryonic connection limits in Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance…
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High 8.7
Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via resource exhaustion
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