CWE-826 7 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-826: Premature Release of Resource During Expected Lifetime

Overview

CWE-826 (Premature Release of Resource During Expected Lifetime) 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 releases a resource that is still intended to be used by itself or another actor.

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-2026-33526 2026-03-26 Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Prior to version 7.5, due to heap Use-After-Free, Squid is vulnerable to Denial of Service when handling ICP traffic. This problem allows a remote attacker to per…
CVE-2026-32748 2026-03-26 Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Prior to version 7.5, due to premature release of resource during expected lifetime and heap Use-After-Free bugs, Squid is vulnerable to Denial of Service when ha…
CVE-2024-58249 2025-04-16 In wxWidgets before 3.2.7, a crash can be triggered in wxWidgets apps when connections are refused in wxWebRequestCURL.
CVE-2025-31115 2025-04-03 XZ Utils provide a general-purpose data-compression library plus command-line tools. In XZ Utils 5.3.3alpha to 5.8.0, the multithreaded .xz decoder in liblzma has a bug where invalid input can at leas…
CVE-2025-24912 2025-03-12 hostapd fails to process crafted RADIUS packets properly. When hostapd authenticates wi-fi devices with RADIUS authentication, an attacker in the position between the hostapd and the RADIUS server may…
CVE-2024-51727 2024-12-06 Ruijie Reyee OS versions 2.206.x up to but not including 2.320.x contains a feature that could enable attackers to invalidate a legitimate user's session and cause a denial-of-service attack on a user…
CVE-2023-1297 2023-06-02 Consul and Consul Enterprise's cluster peering implementation contained a flaw whereby a peer cluster with service of the same name as a local service could corrupt Consul state, resulting in denial o…

Content submission

Name
CWE Content Team
Organization
MITRE
Date
2010-09-22
Version
1.10

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Description, Relationships
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Common_Consequences, Description
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
2023-10-26 CWE Content Team 4.13 updated Observed_Examples
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Applicable_Platforms, Detection_Factors, Time_of_Introduction, Weakness_Ordinalities
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