CWE-459 189 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-459: Incomplete Cleanup

Overview

CWE-459 (Incomplete Cleanup) 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 "clean up" and remove temporary or supporting resources after they have been used.

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-2026-5038 2026-06-15 Impact: multer versions 2.0.0-alpha.1 through 2.1.1 and 3.0.0-alpha.1 are vulnerable to a Denial of Service when using diskStorage. Aborted or malformed multipart uploads leave orphaned partial files …
CVE-2026-53867 2026-06-12 Capgo before 12.128.2 fails to delete previously uploaded profile images from backend storage when users replace or remove them. Attackers can access orphaned image files through previously generated …
CVE-2026-33232 2026-05-19 AutoGPT is a workflow automation platform for creating, deploying, and managing continuous artificial intelligence agents. Versions 0.4.2 through 0.6.51 are vulnerable to an unauthenticated Denial of …
CVE-2026-0427 2026-05-15 Improper cleanup of shared register resources in GPU firmware could allow an admin-privileged attacker from a Guest Virtual machine (VM) to access these shared resources from another Guest VM, potenti…
CVE-2026-34263 2026-05-12 Due to improper Spring Security configuration, SAP Commerce Cloud allows an unauthenticated user to perform malicious input injection, resulting in arbitrary server-side code execution, leading to hig…
CVE-2026-43395 2026-05-08 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/sync: Cleanup partially initialized sync on parse failure xe_sync_entry_parse() can allocate references (syncobj, fence, ch…
CVE-2025-66467 2026-05-08 Missing MinIO policy cleanup on bucket deletion via Apache CloudStack allows users to retain access to buckets which they previously owned. If another user creates a new bucket with the same name, the…
CVE-2026-35361 2026-04-22 The mknod utility in uutils coreutils fails to handle security labels atomically by creating device nodes before setting the SELinux context. If labeling fails, the utility attempts cleanup using std:…
CVE-2026-6830 2026-04-21 nesquena hermes-webui contains an environment variable leakage vulnerability where profile switching does not clear environment variables from the previously active profile before loading the next pro…
CVE-2026-28268 2026-02-27 Vikunja is an open-source self-hosted task management platform. Versions prior to 2.1.0 have a business logic vulnerability exists in the password reset mechanism of vikunja/api that allows password r…
CVE-2026-3304 2026-02-27 Multer is a node.js middleware for handling `multipart/form-data`. A vulnerability in Multer prior to version 2.1.0 allows an attacker to trigger a Denial of Service (DoS) by sending malformed request…
CVE-2026-28196 2026-02-25 In JetBrains TeamCity before 2025.11.3 disabling versioned settings left a credentials config on disk
CVE-2026-21438 2026-02-12 webtransport-go is an implementation of the WebTransport protocol. Prior to 0.10.0, an attacker can cause unbounded memory consumption repeatedly creating and closing many WebTransport streams. Closed…
CVE-2025-15331 2026-02-05 Tanium addressed an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in Connect.
CVE-2025-66675 2025-12-10 Denial of Service vulnerability in Apache Struts, file leak in multipart request processing causes disk exhaustion. This issue affects Apache Struts: from 2.0.0 through 6.7.4, from 7.0.0 through 7.0.…
CVE-2025-64775 2025-12-01 Denial of Service vulnerability in Apache Struts, file leak in multipart request processing causes disk exhaustion. This issue affects Apache Struts: from 2.0.0 through 6.7.0, from 7.0.0 through 7.0.…
CVE-2025-29934 2025-11-21 A bug within some AMD CPUs could allow a local admin-privileged attacker to run a SEV-SNP guest using stale TLB entries, potentially resulting in loss of data integrity.
CVE-2025-60730 2025-10-24 PerfreeBlog v4.0.11 has an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability in the unInstallTheme function
CVE-2025-6338 2025-10-16 There is an incomplete cleanup vulnerability in Qt Network's Schannel support on Windows which can lead to a Denial of Service over a long period.This issue affects Qt from 5.15.0 through 6.8.3, from …
CVE-2025-59781 2025-10-15 When DNS cache is configured on a BIG-IP or BIG-IP Next CNF virtual server, undisclosed DNS queries can cause an increase in memory resource utilization.   Note: Software versions which have reached E…

Content submission

Name
PLOVER
Date
2006-07-19
Version
Draft 3

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2008-07-01 Sean Eidemiller 1.0 added/updated demonstrative examples
2008-07-01 Eric Dalci 1.0 updated Time_of_Introduction
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Relationships, Other_Notes, Taxonomy_Mappings
2009-05-27 CWE Content Team 1.4 updated Relationship_Notes, Relationships
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2012-10-30 CWE Content Team 2.3 updated Potential_Mitigations
2014-06-23 CWE Content Team 2.7 updated Common_Consequences, Other_Notes, Relationship_Notes
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Applicable_Platforms, Taxonomy_Mappings
2019-01-03 CWE Content Team 3.2 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2019-06-20 CWE Content Team 3.3 updated Relationships
2020-08-20 CWE Content Team 4.2 updated Relationships
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Description
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Detection_Factors, Relationships, Time_of_Introduction
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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