Weakness (CWE)
CWE-909: Missing Initialization of Resource
The product does not initialize a critical resource.
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 specified 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 your product with settings that generate warnings about uninitialized variables or data.
Source: MITRE CWE-909
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High 8.7
Account Takeover via Reset Password Functionality in PAD CMS
PAD CMS improperly initializes parameter used for password recovery, which allows to change password for any user that did not use reset password functionality. This issue affects all 3 templates: www, bip and www+bip. This product is End-Of-Life and producen…
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High 7.1
Teradata Vantage Editor 1.0.1 is mostly intended for SQL database access and docs.teradata.com access, but provides uni…
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High 7.5
Missing Initialization of Resource in pnet
An issue was discovered in the pnet crate before 0.27.2 for Rust. There is a segmentation fault (upon attempted dereference of an uninitialized descriptor) because of an erroneous IcmpTransportChannelIterator compiler optimization.
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High 7.5
Missing Initialization of Resource in Apache Arrow
It was discovered that the C++ implementation (which underlies the R, Python and Ruby implementations) of Apache Arrow 0.14.0 to 0.14.1 had a uninitialized memory bug when building arrays with null values in some cases. This can lead to uninitialized memory b…
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High 7.5
Missing Initialization of Resource in Apache Arrow
While investigating UBSAN errors in https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/5365 it was discovered Apache Arrow versions 0.12.0 to 0.14.1, left memory Array data uninitialized when reading RLE null data from parquet. This affected the C++, Python, Ruby and R imp…
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High 7.5
It was found that cockpit before version 184 used glib's base64 decode functionality incorrectly resulting in a denial …