CWE-468 (Incorrect Pointer Scaling) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.
In C and C++, one may often accidentally refer to the wrong memory due to the semantics of when math operations are implicitly scaled.
| Kind | Name | Class | Prevalence | OS / CPE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| language | C | — | Undetermined | — |
| language | C++ | — | Undetermined | — |
These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.
| CVE | Published | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-34194 | 2026-06-08 | Software installed and run as a non-privileged user may conduct improper GPU system calls to cause mismanagement of a mapping state maintained for a sparse memory allocation. The product accidental… |
| CVE-2026-24872 | 2026-01-27 | improper pointer arithmetic vulnerability in ProjectSkyfire SkyFire_548.This issue affects SkyFire_548: before 5.4.8-stable5. |
| CVE-2024-1915 | 2024-03-14 | Incorrect Pointer Scaling vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electric Corporation MELSEC-Q Series and MELSEC-L Series CPU modules allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute malicious code on a targe… |
| CVE-2024-0802 | 2024-03-14 | Incorrect Pointer Scaling vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electric Corporation MELSEC-Q Series and MELSEC-L Series CPU modules allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary information from a… |
| Date | Name | Version | Importance | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-07-01 | Eric Dalci | 1.0 | — | updated Time_of_Introduction |
| 2008-08-01 | — | 1.0 | — | added/updated white box definitions |
| 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 |
| 2009-07-17 | KDM Analytics | 1.5 | — | Improved the White_Box_Definition |
| 2009-07-27 | CWE Content Team | 1.5 | — | updated White_Box_Definitions |
| 2009-10-29 | CWE Content Team | 1.6 | — | updated Common_Consequences |
| 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 Demonstrative_Examples, References, Relationships |
| 2012-10-30 | CWE Content Team | 2.3 | — | updated Potential_Mitigations |
| 2014-06-23 | CWE Content Team | 2.7 | — | updated Modes_of_Introduction, Other_Notes |
| 2014-07-30 | CWE Content Team | 2.8 | — | updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings |
| 2017-11-08 | CWE Content Team | 3.0 | — | updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings, White_Box_Definitions |
| 2019-01-03 | CWE Content Team | 3.2 | — | updated Relationships |
| 2020-02-24 | CWE Content Team | 4.0 | — | updated References |
| 2023-04-27 | CWE Content Team | 4.11 | — | updated Relationships |
| 2023-06-29 | CWE Content Team | 4.12 | — | updated Mapping_Notes |
| 2025-12-11 | CWE Content Team | 4.19 | — | updated Detection_Factors, Weakness_Ordinalities |