CWE-668 713 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-668: Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

Overview

CWE-668 (Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere) 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 exposes a resource to the wrong control sphere, providing unintended actors with inappropriate access to the resource.

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-2025-15653 2026-06-02 Dräger Zeus Infinity Empowered (Zeus IE) and Zeus RS C500 anesthesia workstations contain a local security vulnerability that allows unauthorized individuals with physical access to compromise softwar…
CVE-2026-46430 2026-05-26 Algernon is a small self-contained pure-Go web server. Prior to 1.17.7, the SSE event server bound to 0.0.0.0:5553 on Linux/macOS by default because the platform-dependent host default in engine/flags…
CVE-2026-8958 2026-05-19 Information disclosure, sandbox escape in the Security: Process Sandboxing component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 151, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11.
CVE-2026-46723 2026-05-19 The additional_tables configuration of the page and tt_content indexers accepts arbitrary table and field names. A backend user with permission to edit indexer configurations can copy sensitive data f…
CVE-2026-44552 2026-05-15 Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline. Prior to 0.9.0, the tool_servers and terminal_servers keys in utils/tools.py do use a prefix. When tw…
CVE-2026-45411 2026-05-13 vm2 is an open source vm/sandbox for Node.js. Prior to 3.11.3, it is possible to catch a host exception using the yield* expression inside an async generator. When the generator is closed using the re…
CVE-2026-44009 2026-05-13 vm2 is an open source vm/sandbox for Node.js. Prior to 3.11.2, This vulnerability is fixed in 3.11.2.
CVE-2026-44008 2026-05-13 vm2 is an open source vm/sandbox for Node.js. Prior to 3.11.2, the new method neutralizeArraySpeciesBatch works with objects from the other side but can call into this side via getter on the array pro…
CVE-2026-42875 2026-05-11 External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service and automatically injects the values as Kubernetes Secrets. Prior to 2.4.0, Namespaced SecretStore resources that used CAProvider…
CVE-2026-34095 2026-05-11 Vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki. This vulnerability is associated with program files includes/Actions/ActionEntryPoint.Php, includes/Request/FauxResponse.Php. This issue affects M…
CVE-2026-34094 2026-05-11 Vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki. This vulnerability is associated with program files includes/Page/Article.Php. This issue affects MediaWiki: from * before 1.43.7, 1.44.4, 1.45.2.…
CVE-2026-44338 2026-05-08 PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. From version 2.5.6 to before version 4.6.34, PraisonAI ships a legacy Flask API server with authentication disabled by default. When that server is used, any c…
CVE-2026-41369 2026-04-28 OpenClaw before 2026.3.31 contains insufficient environment variable sanitization in host exec operations, failing to filter package, registry, Docker, compiler, and TLS override variables. Attackers …
CVE-2026-41368 2026-04-28 OpenClaw before 2026.3.28 contains an environment variable disclosure vulnerability in the jq safe-bin policy that fails to block the $ENV filter. Attackers can bypass safe-bin restrictions by using $…
CVE-2026-41362 2026-04-28 OpenClaw versions 2026.2.19 before 2026.3.31 contain an improper cache isolation vulnerability in the Zalo webhook replay-dedupe mechanism that is shared across authenticated webhook targets. Attacker…
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-2026-32690 2026-04-18 Secrets in Variables saved as JSON dictionaries were not properly redacted - in case thee variables were retrieved by the user the secrets stored as nested fields were not masked. If you do not store…
CVE-2026-30912 2026-04-18 In case of SQL errors, exception/stack trace of errors was exposed in API even if "api/expose_stack_traces" was set to false. That could lead to exposing additional information to potential attacker. …
CVE-2025-54502 2026-04-16 Incorrect use of boot service in the AMD Platform Configuration Blob (APCB) SMM driver could allow a privileged attacker with local access (Ring 0) to achieve privilege escalation potentially resultin…
CVE-2026-35658 2026-04-10 OpenClaw before 2026.3.2 contains a filesystem boundary bypass vulnerability in the image tool that fails to honor tools.fs.workspaceOnly restrictions. Attackers can traverse sandbox bridge mounts out…

Content submission

Name
CWE Content Team
Organization
MITRE
Date
2008-04-11
Version
Draft 9

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, Other_Notes
2008-11-24 CWE Content Team 1.1 updated Relationships
2009-05-27 CWE Content Team 1.4 updated Relationships
2009-07-22 CWE Content Team 1.5 Critical Clarified description to include permissions.
2009-07-27 CWE Content Team 1.5 updated Description, Relationships
2009-10-29 CWE Content Team 1.6 updated Other_Notes, Theoretical_Notes
2009-12-28 CWE Content Team 1.7 updated Relationships
2010-09-27 CWE Content Team 1.10 updated Relationships
2011-03-29 CWE Content Team 1.12 updated Relationships
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Relationships
2013-02-21 CWE Content Team 2.4 updated Relationships
2013-07-17 CWE Content Team 2.5 updated Relationships
2014-06-23 CWE Content Team 2.7 updated Relationships
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships
2015-12-07 CWE Content Team 2.9 updated Relationships
2017-01-19 CWE Content Team 2.10 updated Relationships
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Modes_of_Introduction, Relationships, Relevant_Properties
2019-01-03 CWE Content Team 3.2 updated Relationships
2019-06-20 CWE Content Team 3.3 updated Relationships
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Relationships
2020-06-25 CWE Content Team 4.1 updated Relationships
2021-03-15 CWE Content Team 4.4 updated Relationships
2021-10-28 CWE Content Team 4.6 updated Relationships
2022-04-28 CWE Content Team 4.7 updated Relationships
2022-10-13 CWE Content Team 4.9 updated References
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
2025-04-03 CWE Content Team 4.17 updated Common_Consequences, Relationships
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Applicable_Platforms, Relationships, Weakness_Ordinalities
2026-04-30 CWE Content Team 4.20 updated Mapping_Notes
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