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Home/CWEs/CWE-119
Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Memory Buffer Operations

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Operations read or write outside a buffer's intended bounds.

Abstraction
Class
OWASP Top 10
A06:2021 (#6)
Exploit Likelihood
High
Related CVEs
100

How to mitigate

Use memory-safe languages or bounds-checked APIs; enable compiler hardening and fuzz the parsers.

▪ References & documentation

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.htmlNVD CWE listing

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