CWE-248 203 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-248: Uncaught Exception

Overview

CWE-248 (Uncaught Exception) 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

An exception is thrown from a function, but it is not caught.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
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-2026-45685 2026-06-02 OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation provides eBPF instrumentation based on the OpenTelemetry standard. From version 0.1.0 to before version 0.9.0, malformed MongoDB wire messages can trigger uncaught p…
CVE-2026-45676 2026-06-02 OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation provides eBPF instrumentation based on the OpenTelemetry standard. Prior to version 0.9.0, OBI's replacement ELF parser trusts section offsets, counts, and string of…
CVE-2026-45554 2026-06-02 NiceGUI is a Python-based UI framework. Prior to version 3.12.0, two FastAPI routes that serve per-component static assets in NiceGUI accept a sub-path parameter that may resolve to a directory rather…
CVE-2026-9509 2026-05-29 An unhandled exception in Suprema BioStar 2 (Server), versions 2.9.8, 2.9.10, and 2.9.11, that allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) by sending HTTP POST request…
CVE-2025-15649 2026-05-27 IO::Uncompress::Unzip versions before 2.215 for Perl propagate uncaught exception when parsing zip header with malformed DOS date. _dosToUnixTime() decodes the local-file-header last-modification dat…
CVE-2026-44905 2026-05-26 Vanetza is an open-source implementation of the ETSI C-ITS protocol suite. In 26.02 and earlier, a denial-of-service vulnerability was identified in the cryptographic verification pipeline of Vanetza.…
CVE-2026-43988 2026-05-26 Vanetza is an open-source implementation of the ETSI C-ITS protocol suite. In 26.02 and earlier, a denial-of-service vulnerability was identified in the ASN.1/OER parsing pipeline of Vanetza. When pro…
CVE-2026-44001 2026-05-13 vm2 is an open source vm/sandbox for Node.js. Prior to 3.11.0, a sandbox escape vulnerability in vm2 v3.10.5 allows any sandboxed code to crash the host Node.js process via a single Promise constructo…
CVE-2026-42545 2026-05-12 Granian is a Rust HTTP server for Python applications. From 0.2.0 to 2.7.4, Granian aborts a worker process if a WSGI application returns an invalid HTTP response header name or value. The WSGI respon…
CVE-2026-42544 2026-05-12 Granian is a Rust HTTP server for Python applications. From 1.2.0 to 2.7.4, Granian aborts a worker process when an unauthenticated client sends a WebSocket upgrade request whose Sec-WebSocket-Protoco…
CVE-2026-42268 2026-05-12 ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. From 3.0.0 to before 3.0.15, there is an unhandled exception (std::out_of_range) caused b…
CVE-2026-8161 2026-05-12 [email protected] and lower versions are vulnerable to denial of service via uncaught exception. By sending a multipart/form-data request with a field name that collides with an inherited Object.protot…
CVE-2026-41585 2026-05-08 ZEBRA is a Zcash node written entirely in Rust. From zebrad versions 2.2.0 to before 4.3.1 and from zebra-rpc versions 1.0.0-beta.45 to before 6.0.2, a vulnerability in Zebra's JSON-RPC HTTP middlewar…
CVE-2026-37554 2026-05-01 An issue was discovered in Vanetza V2X v26.02 allowing remote unauthorized attackers to cause a denial of service. The vulnerability exists in the GeoNetworking packet processing pipeline where OpenSS…
CVE-2026-7183 2026-04-27 A vulnerability has been found in aligungr UERANSIM up to 3.2.7. The affected element is the function rls::DecodeRlsMessage in the library src/lib/rls/rls_pdu.cpp of the component Radio Link Simulatio…
CVE-2026-5937 2026-04-27 Insufficient parameter verification leads to the occurrence of format errors in files, which will trigger an unhandled "std::invalid_argument" exception, ultimately causing the program to terminate.
CVE-2026-35348 2026-04-22 The sort utility in uutils coreutils is vulnerable to a process panic when using the --files0-from option with inputs containing non-UTF-8 filenames. The implementation enforces UTF-8 encoding and uti…
CVE-2026-34944 2026-04-09 Wasmtime is a runtime for WebAssembly. Prior to 24.0.7, 36.0.7, 42.0.2, and 43.0.1, On x86-64 platforms with SSE3 disabled Wasmtime's compilation of the f64x2.splat WebAssembly instruction with Cranel…
CVE-2026-34943 2026-04-09 Wasmtime is a runtime for WebAssembly. Prior to 24.0.7, 36.0.7, 42.0.2, and 43.0.1, Wasmtime contains a possible panic which can happen when a flags-typed component model value is lifted with the Val …
CVE-2026-24175 2026-04-07 NVIDIA Triton Inference Server contains a vulnerability where an attacker could cause a server crash by sending a malformed request header to the server. A successful exploit of this vulnerability mig…

Previous names

  • Often Misused: Exception Handling (2008-01-30)

Content submission

Name
7 Pernicious Kingdoms
Date
2006-07-19
Version
Draft 3

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2008-07-01 Eric Dalci 1.0 updated Time_of_Introduction
2008-08-15 1.0 Suggested OWASP Top Ten 2004 mapping
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Applicable_Platforms, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2008-09-24 CWE Content Team 1.1 Removed C from Applicable_Platforms
2008-10-14 CWE Content Team 1.0.1 updated Applicable_Platforms
2009-03-10 CWE Content Team 1.3 updated Relationships
2011-03-29 CWE Content Team 1.12 updated Description, Relationships
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Common_Consequences, Demonstrative_Examples, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Demonstrative_Examples, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2019-01-03 CWE Content Team 3.2 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2019-06-20 CWE Content Team 3.3 updated Related_Attack_Patterns
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated References
2020-08-20 CWE Content Team 4.2 updated Relationships
2020-12-10 CWE Content Team 4.3 updated Relationships
2021-03-15 CWE Content Team 4.4 updated Relationships
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Detection_Factors, Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes, Relationships
2024-02-29 CWE Content Team 4.14 updated Observed_Examples
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Relationships, Weakness_Ordinalities
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