CWE-767 4 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-767: Access to Critical Private Variable via Public Method

Overview

CWE-767 (Access to Critical Private Variable via Public Method) 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 defines a public method that reads or modifies a private variable.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language C++ Undetermined
language C# Undetermined
language Java 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-2024-36463 2024-11-26 The implementation of atob in "Zabbix JS" allows to create a string with arbitrary content and use it to access internal properties of objects.
CVE-2024-34162 2024-11-26 The web interface of the affected devices is designed to hide the LDAP credentials even for administrative users. But configuring LDAP authentication to "SIMPLE", the device communicates with the LDAP…
CVE-2020-26868 2020-10-12 ARC Informatique PcVue prior to version 12.0.17 is vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack due to the ability of an unauthorized user to modify information used to validate messages sent by legitimat…
CVE-2016-8380 2018-04-05 The web server in Phoenix Contact ILC PLCs allows access to read and write PLC variables without authentication.

Content submission

Name
CWE Content Team
Organization
MITRE
Date
2009-03-03
Version
1.4

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Relationships
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Likelihood_of_Exploit, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2019-01-03 CWE Content Team 3.2 updated Taxonomy_Mappings
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Relationships
2021-03-15 CWE Content Team 4.4 updated Relationships
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Description
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Relationships, Time_of_Introduction, Type
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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