CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses (2024)
CWE Top 25 2024: Memory Safety

CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses (2024) CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Rank 20 in the 2024 CWE Top 25 (frequency x severity of CVEs). The software performs operations on a memory buffer but can read from or write to a location outside the intended boundary.

Maintained by Gerard BlokdykVerified against the published standard Control text last updated

Other controls in CWE Top 25 2024: Memory Safety

Query this from an agent

The graph holds this control, the 0 it maps to, and the evidence behind each claim, over MCP and REST.