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Home/CWEs/CWE-416
Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416: Use After Free

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Memory is referenced after being freed, enabling corruption or code execution.

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

How to mitigate

Adopt memory-safe languages or smart pointers; run sanitizers in CI.

▪ References & documentation

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/416.htmlNVD CWE listing

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