Weakness (CWE)
CWE-908: Use of Uninitialized Resource
The product uses or accesses a resource that has not been initialized.
How to prevent it (4 mitigations)
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Implementation
Explicitly initialize the resource before use. If this is performed through an API function or standard procedure, follow all required steps.
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Implementation
Pay close attention to complex conditionals that affect initialization, since some branches might not perform the initialization.
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Implementation
Avoid race conditions (CWE-362) during initialization routines.
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Build and Compilation
Run or compile the product with settings that generate warnings about uninitialized variables or data.
Source: MITRE CWE-908
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Medium 6.5CVE-2026-97629 Public exploit
NGINX ngx_http_ssl_module vulnerability
Description When NGINX Plus or NGINX Open Source is configured with ssl_session_cache shared:name:size without an explicit ssl_session_ticket_key file directives to automatically rotate SSL session ticket keys, a remote unauthenticated attacker is able to for…
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Critical 9.8CVE-2026-56190 Public exploit
Remote Desktop Protocol Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Use of uninitialized resource in Windows RDP allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.
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High 7.5CVE-2026-0915 Public exploit
getnetbyaddr and getnetbyaddr_r leak stack contents to DNS resovler
Calling getnetbyaddr or getnetbyaddr_r with a configured nsswitch.conf that specifies the library's DNS backend for networks and queries for a zero-valued network in the GNU C Library version 2.0 to version 2.42 can leak stack contents to the configured DNS r…
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High 7.0CVE-2025-59194 Public exploit
Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Use of uninitialized resource in Windows Kernel allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
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Critical 9.8
Windows Graphics Component Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Untrusted pointer dereference in Microsoft Graphics Component allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.
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High 7.5CVE-2024-12085 Public exploit
Rsync: info leak via uninitialized stack contents
A flaw was found in rsync which could be triggered when rsync compares file checksums. This flaw allows an attacker to manipulate the checksum length (s2length) to cause a comparison between a checksum and uninitialized memory and leak one byte of uninitializ…
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High 7.4CVE-2021-43848 Public exploit
Unititialized memory access in h2o
h2o is an open source http server. In code prior to the `8c0eca3` commit h2o may attempt to access uninitialized memory. When receiving QUIC frames in certain order, HTTP/3 server-side implementation of h2o can be misguided to treat uninitialized memory as HT…
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Critical 9.8
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3 through 2003 SP2, Viewer 2003, and Office 2004 for Mac allows use…