CWE-755 578 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-755: Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Overview

CWE-755 (Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions) 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 handle or incorrectly handles an exceptional condition.

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-2026-62994 2026-07-16 CoreDNS is a DNS server written in Go. From 1.9.4 until 1.14.5, a network DNS client allowed to request AXFR for a CoreDNS zone can trigger a panic when CoreDNS is configured with k8s_external headles…
CVE-2026-59162 2026-07-10 Excelize is a Go language library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Prior to 2.11.0, Excelize parses shared-string cell values with strconv.Atoi and checks only the upper bound bef…
CVE-2026-54775 2026-07-08 CoreWCF is a port of the service side of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to .NET Core. Prior to 1.8.1 and 1.9.1, a CoreWCF service listening on a Kafka topic stops processing new records from t…
CVE-2026-59927 2026-07-08 Mistune is a Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. Prior to 3.3.0, the Include directive in src/mistune/directives/include.py detects only direct self-includes and not indirect cycles, al…
CVE-2026-55577 2026-07-01 ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 6.9.13-51 and 7.1.2-26, a heap buffer overflow occurs in the MVG decoder that could res…
CVE-2026-44505 2026-06-09 Nimiq is a Rust implementation of the Nimiq Proof-of-Stake protocol based on the Albatross consensus algorithm. network-libp2p handles kad get-record query progress in handle_dht_get (network-libp2p/s…
CVE-2023-43686 2026-06-09 An issue was discovered in Malwarebytes 4.x and 5.x (and Nebula 2020-10-21 and later). A large number of Firefox preference files can cause the parser to ignore other browser configuration files, lead…
CVE-2026-40371 2026-06-09 Improper handling of insufficient permissions or privileges in Microsoft Dynamics 365 (on-premises) allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
CVE-2026-49235 2026-06-08 When Routinator encounters a file via RRDP using a specifically crafted Document Type Definition, Routinator crashes.
CVE-2026-49232 2026-06-08 Routinator exits on any error when accepting incoming HTTP or RTR connections, including ones it can recover from such as running out of file descriptors. This condition can be triggered maliciously b…
CVE-2026-9516 2026-06-02 Cpanel::JSON::XS versions before 4.41 for Perl allow denial of service via UTF-8 BOM prefixed input when a decode filter callback throws. To skip a leading 3-byte UTF-8 BOM, decode_json() advances th…
CVE-2026-48524 2026-05-28 PyJWT is a JSON Web Token implementation in Python. Prior to 2.13.0, PyJWKClient.get_signing_key() forces a fresh HTTP request to the JWKS endpoint for every JWT with an unknown kid value, with no rat…
CVE-2026-44325 2026-05-27 free5GC is an open-source implementation of the 5G core network. Prior to 4.2.2, free5GC's NRF root SBI endpoint POST /oauth2/token contains a parser-level type-confusion bug family. The handler in NF…
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-2026-44902 2026-05-27 opentelemetry-js is the OpenTelemetry JavaScript Client. Prior to 0.217.0, a single malformed HTTP request crashes any Node.js process running the OpenTelemetry JS Prometheus exporter. The metrics end…
CVE-2026-48961 2026-05-27 IO::Compress versions from 2.207 before 2.220 for Perl ship a zipdetails CLI tool that crashes with undefined subroutine on Info-ZIP Unix Extra Field with 8-byte UID or GID. When decode_ux() in bin/z…
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-2026-8162 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 Content-Disposition header whose filename* parameter con…
CVE-2026-34065 2026-04-22 nimiq-primitives contains primitives (e.g., block, account, transaction) to be used in Nimiq's Rust implementation. Prior to version 1.3.0, an untrusted p2p peer can cause a node to panic by announcin…
CVE-2026-23666 2026-04-14 Improper input validation in .NET Framework allows an unauthorized attacker to deny service over a network.

Content submission

Name
CWE Content Team
Organization
MITRE
Date
2009-03-03
Version
1.3
Comment
New entry for reorganization of CWE-703.

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2009-12-28 CWE Content Team 1.7 updated Applicable_Platforms, Likelihood_of_Exploit, Time_of_Introduction
2010-12-13 CWE Content Team 1.11 updated Description, Observed_Examples
2011-03-29 CWE Content Team 1.12 updated Relationships
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences
2011-09-13 CWE Content Team 2.1 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Relationships
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships
2017-01-19 CWE Content Team 2.10 updated Relationships
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Likelihood_of_Exploit, Modes_of_Introduction, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
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
2021-10-28 CWE Content Team 4.6 updated Observed_Examples
2022-04-28 CWE Content Team 4.7 updated Relationships
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Description, Relationships
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes, Relationships
2024-02-29 CWE Content Team 4.14 updated Demonstrative_Examples, Mapping_Notes, Observed_Examples, References, Relationships
2025-09-09 CWE Content Team 4.18 updated References
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Detection_Factors, Relationships, Weakness_Ordinalities
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