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

CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses (2024) CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Rank 2 in the 2024 CWE Top 25 (frequency x severity of CVEs). The software writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer, leading to corruption, crashes, or code execution.

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