Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-822

Allowed

Untrusted Pointer Dereference

Abstraction: Base · Status: Incomplete

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The product obtains a value from an untrusted source, converts this value to a pointer, and dereferences the resulting pointer.

301 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.

CVE-2017-12719 (GCVE-0-2017-12719)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-11-06 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 18:43
VLAI
Summary
An Untrusted Pointer Dereference issue was discovered in Advantech WebAccess versions prior to V8.2_20170817. A remote attacker is able to execute code to dereference a pointer within the program causing the application to become unavailable.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
Assigner
icscert CNA
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Advantech WebAccess Affected: Advantech WebAccess
Date Public
2017-11-06 00:00
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No mitigation information available for this CWE.

CAPEC-129: Pointer Manipulation

This attack pattern involves an adversary manipulating a pointer within a target application resulting in the application accessing an unintended memory location. This can result in the crashing of the application or, for certain pointer values, access to data that would not normally be possible or the execution of arbitrary code. Since pointers are simply integer variables, Integer Attacks may often be used in Pointer Attacks.

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