CWE-229 17 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-229: Improper Handling of Values

Overview

CWE-229 (Improper Handling of Values) 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

The product does not properly handle when the expected number of values for parameters, fields, or arguments is not provided in input, or if those values are undefined.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language Not Language-Specific 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-2026-45602 2026-06-09 No cwe for this issue in Windows DHCP Server allows an unauthorized attacker to perform tampering over a network.
CVE-2026-4736 2026-03-24 Improper Handling of Values vulnerability in No-Chicken Echo-Mate (SDK/rv1106-sdk/sysdrv/source/kernel/include/net/netfilter modules). This vulnerability is associated with program files nf_tables.H‎,…
CVE-2025-31648 2026-02-10 Improper handling of values in the microcode flow for some Intel(R) Processor Family may allow an escalation of privilege. Startup code and smm adversary with a privileged user combined with a high co…
CVE-2025-7964 2026-01-30 After receiving a malformed 802.15.4 MAC Data Request the Zigbee Coordinator sends a ‘network leave’ request to Zigbee router resulting in the Zigbee Router getting stuck in a non-rejoinable state…
CVE-2025-20268 2025-08-14 A vulnerability in the Geolocation-Based Remote Access (RA) VPN feature of Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass configured poli…
CVE-2024-20431 2024-10-23 A vulnerability in the geolocation access control feature of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass an access control policy. This v…
CVE-2024-39531 2024-07-11 An Improper Handling of Values vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved on ACX 7000 Series allows a network-based, unauthenticated attacker to cause a D…
CVE-2024-36737 2024-06-06 Improper input validation in OneFlow-Inc. Oneflow v0.9.1 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via inputting a negative value into the oneflow.full parameter.
CVE-2024-30800 2024-04-23 PX4 Autopilot v.1.14 allows an attacker to fly the drone into no-fly zones by breaching the geofence using flaws in the function.
CVE-2024-30917 2024-04-11 An issue was discovered in eProsima FastDDS v.2.14.0 and before, allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) and obtain sensitive information via a crafted history_depth parameter in Du…
CVE-2024-29460 2024-04-10 An issue in PX4 Autopilot v.1.14.0 allows an attacker to manipulate the flight path allowing for crashes of the drone via the home point location of the mission_block.cpp component.
CVE-2024-0607 2024-01-18 A flaw was found in the Netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel. The issue is in the nft_byteorder_eval() function, where the code iterates through a loop and writes to the `dst` array. On each iterat…
CVE-2022-4851 2022-12-29 Improper Handling of Values in GitHub repository usememos/memos prior to 0.9.1.
CVE-2022-3409 2022-10-27 A vulnerability in bmcweb of OpenBMC Project allows user to cause denial of service. This vulnerability was identified during mitigation for CVE-2022-2809. When fuzzing the multipart_parser code using…
CVE-2022-2809 2022-10-27 A vulnerability in bmcweb of OpenBMC Project allows user to cause denial of service. When fuzzing the multipart_parser code using AFL++ with address sanitizer enabled to find smallest memory corruptio…
CVE-2022-24412 2022-04-12 Dell EMC PowerScale OneFS 8.2.x - 9.3.0.x contain an improper handling of value vulnerability. An unprivileged network attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to denial-of-servi…
CVE-2022-22562 2022-04-12 Dell PowerScale OneFS, versions 8.2.0-9.3.0, contain a improper handling of missing values exploit. An unauthenticated network attacker could potentially exploit this denial-of-service vulnerability.

Previous names

  • Value Problems (2008-04-11)

Content submission

Name
CWE Community
Date
2006-07-19
Version
Draft 3
Comment
Submitted by members of the CWE community to extend early CWE versions

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2008-07-01 Eric Dalci 1.0 updated Time_of_Introduction
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Relationships
2009-03-10 CWE Content Team 1.3 updated Description
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences
2011-06-27 CWE Content Team 2.0 updated Common_Consequences
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Relationships
2013-07-17 CWE Content Team 2.5 updated Description, Type
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Relationships
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Description
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Relationships, Time_of_Introduction
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Applicable_Platforms, Weakness_Ordinalities
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