CWE-787 14087 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Overview

CWE-787 (Out-of-bounds Write) 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 writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language Memory-Unsafe Often
language C Often
language C++ Often
language Assembly Undetermined
technology ICS/OT Often

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-2026-6676 2026-06-12 Heap buffer out-of-bounds write vulnerability in Avira Antivirus engine when scanning a malformed POSIX tar archive may allow Local Execution of Code or Denial-of-Service of the antivirus engine proce…
CVE-2025-14098 2026-06-12 Heap buffer out-of-bounds write vulnerability due to integer overflow in Avira Antivirus engine when scanning a malformed MS-DOS executable file may allow Local Execution of Code or Denial-of-Service …
CVE-2026-41157 2026-06-12 A web page that contains unusual WebGPU content loaded into the GPU GLES render process and can trigger an out-of-bound write in the GPU user-space driver, leading to memory corruption and possible br…
CVE-2026-34195 2026-06-12 Software installed and run as a non-privileged user may conduct intentional GPU sparse memory API calls to cause out of bounds write in the kernel. The product incorrectly indexes internal state wh…
CVE-2025-7004 2026-06-12 Heap buffer out-of-bounds write vulnerability in Avast Antivirus when scanning a malformed Windows PE file may allow Local Execution of Code or Denial-of-Service of the antivirus process. This issue …
CVE-2026-47965 2026-06-12 Acrobat Reader versions 24.001.30365, 26.001.21651 and earlier are affected by an out-of-bounds write vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Ex…
CVE-2026-46690 2026-06-12 unbounded_spsc is an "unbounded" extension of bounded_spsc_queue. In versions 0.2.0 and prior, sender::send pointer-as-value transmute causes OOB read and fake-Arc drop under TX/RX race. At time of pu…
CVE-2026-11933 2026-06-12 A use-after-free vulnerability exists in MongoDB Server's server-side JavaScript engine when converting BSON documents to JavaScript arrays. An authenticated user with read privileges who is able to r…
CVE-2026-12019 2026-06-11 Heap buffer overflow in Codecs in Google Chrome on Linux and ChromeOS prior to 149.0.7827.115 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape…
CVE-2026-53702 2026-06-11 A stack buffer overflow flaw was found in the GStreamer H.265 codec parser library (gst-plugins-bad). When parsing a buffering period SEI message, the parser uses an incorrect loop bound derived from …
CVE-2026-53701 2026-06-11 An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in GStreamer's H.266/VVC PPS picture partition parser in gst-plugins-bad. In the multi-slice-in-tile processing of gst_h266_parser_parse_picture_partitio…
CVE-2026-53465 2026-06-10 ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to version 7.1.2-25, a crafted multi-frame can result in a heap buffer over-write when encoding it …
CVE-2026-53461 2026-06-10 ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 6.9.13-50 and 7.1.2-25, an incorrect loop in the ICON decoder can result in an out of b…
CVE-2026-48724 2026-06-10 ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to version 7.1.2-24, when using an image with mask the Floyd-Steinberg dithering method it will cau…
CVE-2026-46559 2026-06-10 ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 6.9.13-48 and 7.1.2-23, an incorrect check in the JP2 will result in an heap buffer ove…
CVE-2026-46521 2026-06-10 ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 6.9.13-48 and 7.1.2-23, when using LZMA compression in the MIFF encoder an out of bound…
CVE-2026-46520 2026-06-10 ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 6.9.13-48 and 7.1.2-23, when reading multiple images with different dimensions an out o…
CVE-2026-11604 2026-06-10 An incorrect buffer size calculation in the epoch key generator in OpenVPN ovpn-dco-win version 2.0.0 through 2.8.3 allows a remote authenticated peer to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow and kerne…
CVE-2025-10238 2026-06-10 During an internal security assessment, a potential out-of-bounds write vulnerability was discovered in the BIOS of some ThinkPad products could allow a privileged local user to execute code in System…
CVE-2026-45328 2026-06-10 ESF-IDF is the Espressif Internet of Things (IOT) Development Framework. In versions 5.5.4 and 6.0, the esp_tee component exposes secure-service wrappers in esp_secure_services.c and esp_secure_servic…

Content submission

Name
CWE Content Team
Organization
MITRE
Date
2009-10-21
Version
1.6

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2010-02-16 CWE Content Team 1.8 updated Demonstrative_Examples
2010-09-27 CWE Content Team 1.10 updated Relationships
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences
2014-06-23 CWE Content Team 2.7 updated Demonstrative_Examples
2015-12-07 CWE Content Team 2.9 updated Relationships
2018-03-27 CWE Content Team 3.1 updated Description
2019-09-19 CWE Content Team 3.4 updated Applicable_Platforms, Demonstrative_Examples, Detection_Factors, Likelihood_of_Exploit, Observed_Examples, Potential_Mitigations, References, Relationships, Time_of_Introduction
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Observed_Examples, Relationships
2020-06-25 CWE Content Team 4.1 updated Observed_Examples
2020-08-20 CWE Content Team 4.2 updated Alternate_Terms, Demonstrative_Examples, Observed_Examples, Relationships
2020-12-10 CWE Content Team 4.3 updated Relationships
2021-03-15 CWE Content Team 4.4 updated Demonstrative_Examples
2021-07-20 CWE Content Team 4.5 updated Demonstrative_Examples, Potential_Mitigations, Relationships
2022-06-28 CWE Content Team 4.8 updated Observed_Examples, Relationships
2022-10-13 CWE Content Team 4.9 updated Applicable_Platforms
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Alternate_Terms, Demonstrative_Examples, Description
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Potential_Mitigations, References, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2024-02-29 CWE Content Team 4.14 updated Demonstrative_Examples
2024-07-16 CWE Content Team 4.15 updated Alternate_Terms, Common_Consequences, Description, Diagram, Weakness_Ordinalities
2024-11-19 CWE Content Team 4.16 updated Observed_Examples, Relationships
2025-04-03 CWE Content Team 4.17 updated Observed_Examples, Relationships
2025-09-09 CWE Content Team 4.18 updated Affected_Resources, Functional_Areas, References
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Applicable_Platforms, Detection_Factors, References, Relationships
2026-04-30 CWE Content Team 4.20 updated Mapping_Notes

Contributions

Type Name Date Comment
Content "Mapping CWE to 62443" Sub-Working Group 2023-04-25 Suggested mappings to ISA/IEC 62443.
Content Abhi Balakrishnan 2024-02-29 Provided diagram to improve CWE usability
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