CWE-457Variant1 in KEV

Use of Uninitialized Variable

Draft in the CWE catalog · 220 CVEs mapped

220
CVEs mapped
1
In KEV
6.5
Median CVSS
What it is

The code uses a variable that has not been initialized, leading to unpredictable or unintended results.

Recent examples
9.1cvss
CVE-2026-84639

CVE-2026-84639 - CRITICAL Severity Vulnerability

Triggering an error condition in certain MIME bodies would cause uninitialized memory to be used. This vulnerability was fixed in Thunderbird 155, Thunderbird 140.15, and Thunderbird 153.2.

CRITICALno explanation yet
0%
epss
9.6cvss
CVE-2026-78935

CVE-2026-78935 - CRITICAL Severity Vulnerability

Use of uninitialized variable in Mobile in Google Chrome on on iOS prior to 152.0.7977.65 allowed a remote attacker to potentially execute arbitrary code outside the sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Critical)

CRITICALno explanation yet
1%
epss
4.3cvss
CVE-2026-62986

CVE-2026-62986 - MEDIUM Severity Vulnerability

OpenEXR is the reference implementation and specification for the EXR image file format, widely used in the motion picture industry. In versions 3.3.0 through 3.3.12 and 3.4.0 through 3.4.13, the PyOpenEXR Python bindings return stale heap data when reading a crafted deep scanline EXR that uses layer-prefixed RGB channels. With the default channel coalescing (separate_channels=False), the wrapper groups channels such as left.R, left.G, and left.B into a single RGB sample array, but the lane-offset calculation in PyPart::setDeepSliceData() only recognizes the exact unprefixed names G, B, and A. As a result, prefixed channels like left.G and left.B are decoded into lane 0 while lanes 1 and 2 are left uninitialized and returned to Python. A Python application that reads untrusted deep EXR files through the default OpenEXR.File API and then logs, serializes, previews, or otherwise processes the resulting NumPy sample arrays may expose uninitialized same-process heap contents, in addition to receiving incorrect green and blue channel data. This issue is fixed in versions 3.3.13 and 3.4.14.

MEDIUMno explanation yet
0%
epss
The record
Technical detail
CWE ID
CWE-457
Abstraction
Variant
Structure
Simple
Status
Draft
References (4)