CWE-1285Base

Improper Validation of Specified Index, Position, or Offset in Input

Incomplete in the CWE catalog · 55 CVEs mapped

55
CVEs mapped
7.5
Median CVSS
What it is

The product receives input that is expected to specify an index, position, or offset into an indexable resource such as a buffer or file, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the specified index/position/offset has the required properties.

Recent examples
5.5cvss
CVE-2026-31912

CVE-2026-31912 - MEDIUM Severity Vulnerability

libpcap BPF interpreter detects neither reaching the end of the filter program buffer due to lack of a return instruction nor executing a jump instruction with an offset that translates to a pointer outside of the buffer. In particular uncommon use cases a crafted filter program can cause the interpreter to try reading the OS process memory in the 32GiB around the buffer on 64-bit architectures and in the entire address space on 32-bit architectures.

MEDIUMno explanation yet
epss
none
CVE-2026-53530

CVE-2026-53530 - UNKNOWN Severity Vulnerability

RaTeX is a KaTeX-compatible math rendering engine written in Rust. Prior to version 0.1.11, the public parser entrypoint `ratex_parser::parse(&str)` panics on the 9-byte input `\verbéxé` (i.e. `\verb` followed by the non-ASCII delimiter `é`). When handling a `\verb` command, the parser slices the verbatim argument with byte indices (`arg[1..arg.len() - 1]`); if the delimiter character is multibyte UTF-8, index `1` lands inside that character and Rust panics with *“byte index 1 is not a char boundary”*. Because RaTeX’s release profile sets `panic = "abort"` (`Cargo.toml:48`), the panic aborts the entire process — not just the current request/thread — making this a hard denial of service for any service that renders untrusted LaTeX. Version 0.1.11 fixes the issue.

no explanation yet
0%
epss
5.5cvss
CVE-2026-14479

CVE-2026-14479 - MEDIUM Severity Vulnerability

A maliciously crafted input, when processed by the Autodesk Installer IPC frame parser, may trigger improper validation of an input-specified position or offset, resulting in an out-of-range substring operation. A malicious actor may leverage this vulnerability to cause the NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM service to terminate unexpectedly, resulting in a denial-of-service condition.

MEDIUMno explanation yet
0%
epss
The record
Technical detail
CWE ID
CWE-1285
Abstraction
Base
Structure
Simple
Status
Incomplete