CWE-197 45 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-197: Numeric Truncation Error

Overview

CWE-197 (Numeric Truncation Error) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.

Security impact
Security impact: Depends on product and context; use CVE records, severity scores, and MITRE guidance to prioritize.

Description

Truncation errors occur when a primitive is cast to a primitive of a smaller size and data is lost in the conversion.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language C Undetermined
language C++ Undetermined
language Java Undetermined
language C# Undetermined

Related CVEs in this database

These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.

CVE Published Summary
CVE-2026-44823 2026-06-09 Integer underflow (wrap or wraparound) in Microsoft Office Excel allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.
CVE-2026-40409 2026-06-09 Windows Universal Disk Format File System Driver (UDFS) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2026-40404 2026-06-09 Windows Universal Disk Format File System Driver (UDFS) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2026-42944 2026-05-20 NLnet Labs Unbound 1.14.0 up to and including version 1.25.0 has a vulnerability that results in heap overflow when encoding multiple NSID and/or DNS Cookie EDNS and/or EDNS Padding options in the rep…
CVE-2026-40380 2026-05-12 Heap-based buffer overflow in Volume Manager Extension Driver allows an authorized attacker to execute code with a physical attack.
CVE-2026-44927 2026-05-08 In uriparser before 1.0.2, there is pointer difference truncation to int in various places.
CVE-2026-42371 2026-04-27 uriparser before 1.0.1 has numeric truncation in text range comparison, if an application accepts URIs with a length in gigabytes.
CVE-2026-32240 2026-03-12 Cap'n Proto is a data interchange format and capability-based RPC system. Prior to 1.4.0, when using Transfer-Encoding: chunked, if a chunk's size parsed to a value of 2^64 or larger, it would be trun…
CVE-2025-10543 2025-12-02 In Eclipse Paho Go MQTT v3.1 library (paho.mqtt.golang) versions <=1.5.0 UTF-8 encoded strings, passed into the library, may be incorrectly encoded if their length exceeds 65535 bytes. This may lead t…
CVE-2025-53723 2025-08-12 Numeric truncation error in Windows Hyper-V allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
CVE-2025-6965 2025-07-15 There exists a vulnerability in SQLite versions before 3.50.2 where the number of aggregate terms could exceed the number of columns available. This could lead to a memory corruption issue. We recomme…
CVE-2025-49679 2025-07-08 Numeric truncation error in Windows Shell allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
CVE-2024-49018 2024-11-12 SQL Server Native Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2024-43639 2024-11-12 Windows KDC Proxy Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2024-43519 2024-10-08 Microsoft WDAC OLE DB provider for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2024-37337 2024-09-10 Microsoft SQL Server Native Scoring Information Disclosure Vulnerability
CVE-2024-38125 2024-08-13 Kernel Streaming WOW Thunk Service Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2024-38086 2024-07-09 Azure Kinect SDK Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2024-38044 2024-07-09 DHCP Server Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2024-30029 2024-05-14 Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Content submission

Name
PLOVER
Date
2006-07-19
Version
Draft 3

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Applicable_Platforms, Common_Consequences, Relationships, Other_Notes, Taxonomy_Mappings
2008-11-24 CWE Content Team 1.1 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2009-05-27 CWE Content Team 1.4 updated Demonstrative_Examples
2009-07-27 CWE Content Team 1.5 updated Description, Observed_Examples, Other_Notes, Research_Gaps
2010-12-13 CWE Content Team 1.11 updated Demonstrative_Examples
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2011-09-13 CWE Content Team 2.1 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated References, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Taxonomy_Mappings
2019-01-03 CWE Content Team 3.2 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Relationships
2020-08-20 CWE Content Team 4.2 updated Relationships
2020-12-10 CWE Content Team 4.3 updated Relationships
2022-06-28 CWE Content Team 4.8 updated Observed_Examples
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Detection_Factors, Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Weakness_Ordinalities
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