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

CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses (2024) CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Rank 21 in the 2024 CWE Top 25 (frequency x severity of CVEs). The application dereferences a pointer it expects to be valid but is NULL, typically causing a crash or denial of service.

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