CWE-775Variant

Missing Release of File Descriptor or Handle after Effective Lifetime

Incomplete in the CWE catalog · 6 CVEs mapped

6
CVEs mapped
5.3
Median CVSS
What it is

The product does not release a file descriptor or handle after its effective lifetime has ended, i.e., after the file descriptor/handle is no longer needed.

Recent examples
7.9cvss
CVE-2026-78408

CVE-2026-78408 - HIGH Severity Vulnerability

The nsenter --join-cgroup option opens the target cgroup.procs file as root and leaves that file descriptor open across later namespace and credential changes and across execve(). Because the kernel checks later cgroup migrations using the credentials from the original open, a program run in an attacker-controlled target can inherit root's ability to move host processes between cgroups. After a privileged operator uses --join-cgroup against that target, an unprivileged user can migrate and terminate unrelated root processes.

HIGHno explanation yet
0%
epss
2.1cvss
CVE-2026-45287

OpenTelemetry-Go's Schema ParseFile leaks file descriptors on each parse

OpenTelemetry-Go is the Go implementation of OpenTelemetry. Prior to version 0.0.17, `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/schema/v1.0` and `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/schema/v1.1` leaks one file descriptor on each successful `ParseFile` call. `ParseFile` opens the schema file and passes it to `Parse` without closing it; repeated parsing in a long-running process can exhaust the process file descriptor limit and cause denial of service. Exploitation depends on a consuming application exposing repeated schema parsing to an attacker-controlled path. Version 0.0.17 contains a patch for the issue.

LOWno explanation yet
0%
epss
6.9cvss
CVE-2019-25557

TwistedBrush Pro Studio 24.06 Denial of Service via srp File

TwistedBrush Pro Studio 24.06 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by importing a malformed .srp script file. Attackers can create a .srp file containing an excessively large buffer and import it through the Script Player interface to trigger an application crash.

MEDIUMno explanation yet
0%
epss
The record
Technical detail
CWE ID
CWE-775
Abstraction
Variant
Structure
Simple
Status
Incomplete