CWE-769 4 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-769: Uncontrolled File Descriptor Consumption (Deprecated)

Overview

CWE-769 is a deprecated classification in the CWE framework. It remains in the catalog for historical hierarchy and CVE traceability.

Security impact
Security impact: Low / none for active exploitation (deprecated catalog entry).
Historical note
Historical note: MITRE periodically reorganizes the CWE tree; prefer current, non-deprecated weaknesses for threat modeling.

Description

This entry has been deprecated because it was a duplicate of CWE-774. All content has been transferred to CWE-774.

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-2025-4001 2025-04-28 A vulnerability has been found in scipopt scip up to 9.2.1 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function main of the file examples/LOP/src/genRandomLOPInstance.c of the…
CVE-2018-0358 2018-06-21 A vulnerability in the file descriptor handling of Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server (VCS) Expressway could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) con…
CVE-2017-1000098 2017-10-05 The net/http package's Request.ParseMultipartForm method starts writing to temporary files once the request body size surpasses the given "maxMemory" limit. It was possible for an attacker to generate…
CVE-2017-8452 2017-06-16 Kibana versions prior to 5.2.1 configured for SSL client access, file descriptors will fail to be cleaned up after certain requests and will accumulate over time until the process crashes.

Previous names

  • File Descriptor Exhaustion (2017-11-08)
  • Uncontrolled File Descriptor Consumption (2019-01-03)

Content submission

Name
CWE Content Team
Organization
MITRE
Date
2009-05-08
Version
1.4

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2010-04-05 CWE Content Team 1.8.1 updated Potential_Mitigations
2010-06-21 CWE Content Team 1.9 updated Description
2010-12-13 CWE Content Team 1.11 updated Description
2013-02-21 CWE Content Team 2.4 updated Maintenance_Notes
2015-12-07 CWE Content Team 2.9 updated Relationships
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Alternate_Terms, Description, Likelihood_of_Exploit, Name, Relationships, Type
2019-01-03 CWE Content Team 3.2 updated Alternate_Terms, Description, Likelihood_of_Exploit, Name, Potential_Mitigations, References, Relationships, Time_of_Introduction, Type
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
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