CWE-617 738 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-617: Reachable Assertion

Overview

CWE-617 (Reachable Assertion) 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 contains an assert() or similar statement that can be triggered by an attacker, which leads to an application exit or other behavior that is more severe than necessary.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language Not Language-Specific Undetermined
language C Sometimes
language Java Undetermined
language Rust Undetermined
technology Not Technology-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-2026-10300 2026-06-01 A security vulnerability has been detected in SGLang 0.5.10.post1. Impacted is an unknown function of the file python/sglang/srt/lora/lora_manager.py of the component Inference HTTP Endpoint. Such man…
CVE-2026-37233 2026-06-01 FlexRIC v2.0.0 contains an authorization bypass in the iApp's xApp isolation mechanism. The equality function eq_xapp_ric_gen_id() in src/ric/iApp/xapp_ric_id.c compares m0->xapp_id against itself (m0…
CVE-2026-37229 2026-06-01 FlexRIC v2.0.0 contains a reachable assertion in e2ap_create_pdu() triggered when ASN.1 PER decoding fails. A remote unauthenticated attacker can send any non-PER byte sequence (e.g., a single 0x00 by…
CVE-2026-37228 2026-06-01 FlexRIC v2.0.0 contains a reachable assertion in e2ap_recv_sctp_msg() (src/lib/ep/e2ap_ep.c). The function allocates a fixed 32KB receive buffer and enforces assert(rc < len) on the sctp_recvmsg() ret…
CVE-2026-37227 2026-06-01 FlexRIC v2.0.0 contains reachable assert(0) calls in stub message handlers for whitelisted but unimplemented E2AP message types in the near-RT RIC. A remote unauthenticated attacker can send a decodab…
CVE-2026-37225 2026-06-01 FlexRIC v2.0.0 crashes when the iApp receives an E42_RIC_SUBSCRIPTION_REQUEST with an empty ricEventTriggerDefinition field. The E42 layer decoder accepts this as valid, but the E2AP encoder asserts a…
CVE-2026-37224 2026-06-01 FlexRIC v2.0.0 crashes when receiving a duplicate E2_SETUP_REQUEST from the same or spoofed E2 Node. The iApp registry enforces node ID uniqueness via assert() rather than graceful rejection. A remote…
CVE-2026-37223 2026-06-01 FlexRIC v2.0.0 contains a reachable assertion in the iApp message dispatcher. The dispatcher validates incoming E2AP messages against a 9-entry whitelist using assert(). A remote unauthenticated attac…
CVE-2026-37222 2026-06-01 FlexRIC v2.0.0 uses hardcoded assertions to validate Information Element (IE) counts in decoded E2AP messages. A remote unauthenticated attacker can send a valid E2AP PDU containing an unexpected numb…
CVE-2026-37221 2026-06-01 FlexRIC v2.0.0 crashes when receiving a RIC_SUBSCRIPTION_RESPONSE with an unknown ric_id that has no corresponding pending event. The near-RT RIC uses assert() to enforce the existence of a pending ev…
CVE-2026-37220 2026-06-01 FlexRIC v2.0.0 crashes when an SCTP association is closed before an E2_SETUP_REQUEST is sent. The near-RT RIC assumes a mapping between SCTP association and E2 node always exists in the cleanup path a…
CVE-2026-4392 2026-05-27 A vulnerability was detected in TeamSpeak 3 Server up to 3.13.7. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component clientek Handshake Handler. Performing a manipulation of the argument proof…
CVE-2026-44321 2026-05-27 free5GC is an open-source implementation of the 5G core network. Prior to 4.2.2, free5GC's SMF mounts the UPI management route group without inbound OAuth2 middleware. The POST /upi/v1/upNodesLinks cr…
CVE-2026-44319 2026-05-27 free5GC is an open-source implementation of the 5G core network. Prior to 4.2.2, free5GC's NEF terminates the entire process when a stored PFD-subscription notifyUri cannot be reached. In PfdChangeNot…
CVE-2026-8852 2026-05-26 IBM HTTP Server 8.5, and 9.0 is vulnerable to denial of service via the optional module mod_fastcgi module.
CVE-2026-9501 2026-05-25 A vulnerability was determined in GNU LibreDWG up to 0.14. The impacted element is the function decompress_R2004_section of the file src/decode.c of the component Dwgread Utility. Executing a manipula…
CVE-2026-48852 2026-05-25 PuTTY 0.71 before 0.84 has an assertion failure in ECDSA signature verification.
CVE-2026-5946 2026-05-20 Multiple flaws have been identified in `named` related to the handling of DNS messages whose CLASS is not Internet (`IN`) — for example, `CHAOS` or `HESIOD`, or DNS messages that specify meta-classes …
CVE-2026-23557 2026-05-19 Any guest can cause xenstored to crash by issuing a XS_RESET_WATCHES command within a transaction due to an assert() triggering. In case xenstored was built with NDEBUG #defined nothing bad will happ…
CVE-2026-8843 2026-05-18 Creating a "2dsphere_bucket" index on a non-timeseries bucket collection will succeed, but any subsequent attempt to insert a document which triggers updating that index will crash the server. A simil…

Content submission

Name
CWE Content Team
Organization
MITRE
Date
2007-05-07
Version
Draft 6

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 Potential_Mitigations, Time_of_Introduction
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Description, Relationships, Observed_Example, Other_Notes, Weakness_Ordinalities
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Common_Consequences, Observed_Examples, 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, Description, Other_Notes
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2017-01-19 CWE Content Team 2.10 updated Relationships
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Relationships
2019-01-03 CWE Content Team 3.2 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2019-06-20 CWE Content Team 3.3 updated Relationships, Type
2019-09-19 CWE Content Team 3.4 updated Alternate_Terms
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Detection_Factors, Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
2023-10-26 CWE Content Team 4.13 updated Demonstrative_Examples
2024-02-29 CWE Content Team 4.14 updated Observed_Examples
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Applicable_Platforms, Observed_Examples, Relationships
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