CWE-252— Unchecked Return Value
The product does not check the return value from a method or function, which can prevent it from detecting unexpected states and conditions.— MITRE CWE catalog
211 active CVEs classified under this weakness category. Sourced from NVD, GHSA, and vendor advisories. Full definition on MITRE →
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- CVE-2026-78699HIGHCVSS 7.2EG 7.22026-08-30
Unchecked Return Value vulnerability in ash-project ash_postgres allows a user who can drive a tenant rename to a name that collides with an existing tenant's schema to have their tenant record repointed at that other tenant's live schema,…
- CVE-2007-5191HIGHCVSS v2 7.2EG 7.22007-10-04
mount and umount in util-linux and loop-aes-utils call the setuid and setgid functions in the wrong order and do not check the return values, which might allow attackers to gain privileges via helpers such as mount.nfs.
- CVE-2026-90648HIGHCVSS 7.1EG 7.12026-09-12
wasm2c in WebAssembly wabt through 1.0.41 allows sandbox escape in some situations that primarily involve 32-bit platforms, aka a "table flip" attack. It does not check the return value of calloc() in wasm_rt_allocate_funcref_table() (wasm…
- CVE-2025-29938HIGHCVSS 7.1EG 7.12026-05-15
An unchecked return value within the AMD Platform Management Framework (PMF) could allow an attacker to write to an arbitrary memory address resulting in denial of service or arbitrary code execution.
- CVE-2023-3013HIGHCVSS 7.1EG 7.12023-05-31
Unchecked Return Value in GitHub repository gpac/gpac prior to 2.2.2.
- CVE-2024-39492HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.02024-07-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mailbox: mtk-cmdq: Fix pm_runtime_get_sync() warning in mbox shutdown The return value of pm_runtime_get_sync() in cmdq_mbox_shutdown() will return 1 when pm runtime sta…
- CVE-2024-2881MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72024-08-30
Fault Injection vulnerability in wc_ed25519_sign_msg function in wolfssl/wolfcrypt/src/ed25519.c in WolfSSL wolfssl5.6.6 on Linux/Windows allows remote attacker co-resides in the same system with a victim process to disclose information…
- CVE-2022-30783MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72022-05-26
An invalid return code in fuse_kern_mount enables intercepting of libfuse-lite protocol traffic between NTFS-3G and the kernel in NTFS-3G through 2021.8.22 when using libfuse-lite.
- CVE-2021-0107MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72022-02-09
Unchecked return value in the firmware for some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
- CVE-2021-39643MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72021-12-15
In ic_startRetrieveEntryValue of acropora/app/identity/ic.c, there is a possible bypass of defense-in-depth due to missing validation of the return value. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges ne…
- CVE-2026-106436MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52026-10-08
The BSON encoder in the MongoDB PHP Driver does not check some return values after a document exceeds libbson's size limit. This can leave the encoder in an invalid state. An unauthenticated actor who can cause an affected application to e…
- CVE-2026-67409MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52026-09-25
RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. From 3.13.0 until 4.3.3, 4.2.9, 4.1.14, 4.0.23, and 3.13.18, JWKS Fetch Ignores HTTP Response Status Code - Signing Key Destruction Causes Authentication DoS (CWE-252). the JWKS key fetching me…
- CVE-2026-86739MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52026-09-09
Snipe-IT 8.6.3 and earlier do not check the return value of Storage::put() when writing the signature PNG and the generated acceptance PDF in Account\AcceptanceController::store(). On filesystem drivers that return false instead of throwin…
- CVE-2026-33983MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52026-03-30
FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to version 3.24.2, progressive_decompress_tile_upgrade() detects a mismatch via progressive_rfx_quant_cmp_equal() but only emits WLog_WARN, execution continues. The wra…
- CVE-2026-29905MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52026-03-26
Kirby CMS through 5.1.4 allows an authenticated user with 'Editor' permissions to cause a persistent Denial of Service (DoS) via a malformed image upload. The application fails to properly validate the return value of the PHP getimagesize(…
- CVE-2026-0421MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52026-01-14
A potential vulnerability was reported in the BIOS of L13 Gen 6, L13 Gen 6 2-in-1, L14 Gen 6, and L16 Gen 2 ThinkPads which could result in Secure Boot being disabled even when configured as “On” in the BIOS setup menu. This issue only…
- CVE-2024-39558MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52024-07-10
An Unchecked Return Value vulnerability in the Routing Protocol Daemon (rpd) on Juniper Networks Junos OS and Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows a logically adjacent, unauthenticated attacker sending a specific PIM packet to cause rp…
- CVE-2023-5215MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52023-09-28
A flaw was found in libnbd. A server can reply with a block size larger than 2^63 (the NBD spec states the size is a 64-bit unsigned value). This issue could lead to an application crash or other unintended behavior for NBD clients that do…
- CVE-2022-40716MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52022-09-23
HashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise up to 1.11.8, 1.12.4, and 1.13.1 do not check for multiple SAN URI values in a CSR on the internal RPC endpoint, enabling leverage of privileged access to bypass service mesh intentions. Fixed in 1.11…
- CVE-2021-31366MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52021-10-19
An Unchecked Return Value vulnerability in the authd (authentication daemon) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series configured for subscriber management / BBE allows an adjacent attacker to cause a crash by sending a specific username. …
- CVE-2019-9372MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52019-09-27
In libskia, there is a possible crash due to a missing null check. This could lead to remote denial of service with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is needed for exploitation. Product: AndroidVersions: Android-1…
- CVE-2018-16643MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52018-09-06
The functions ReadDCMImage in coders/dcm.c, ReadPWPImage in coders/pwp.c, ReadCALSImage in coders/cals.c, and ReadPICTImage in coders/pict.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-4 do not check the return value of the fputc function, which allows remote at…
- CVE-2016-10061MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52017-03-03
The ReadGROUP4Image function in coders/tiff.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.1-10 does not check the return value of the fputc function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted image file.
- CVE-2016-10060MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52017-03-02
The ConcatenateImages function in MagickWand/magick-cli.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.1-10 does not check the return value of the fputc function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted fi…
- CVE-2022-3807MEDIUMCVSS 4.3EG 6.52022-11-01
A vulnerability was found in Axiomatic Bento4. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Incomplete Fix CVE-2019-13238. The manipulation leads to resource consumption. The attac…
- CVE-2026-118263MEDIUMCVSS 6.3EG 6.32026-10-28
Echo is a Go web framework. From 5.0.0 until 5.4.1, Echo v5's BodyDump middleware can discard a BodyLimit overflow error for an unknown-length request when BodyDump's capture limit is below the BodyLimit threshold. BodyDump drains the rema…
- CVE-2026-107785MEDIUMCVSS 6.3EG 6.32026-10-09
Crux Agent from 1.9.0 before 2.0.3 uses the full SKA bilocation key as the WireGuard preshared key. When a peering session negotiates use of SHA-512, the key produced is 64 bytes instead of the 32 bytes WireGuard requires. The agent does n…
- CVE-2026-86749MEDIUMCVSS 6.3EG 6.32026-09-09
Snipe-IT versions <= 8.6.3 (fixed in 8.7.0) do not check the return value of storage write operations in ImageUploadRequest::handleImages(). Because Laravel's default disk mode does not throw on failure, a silently failed Storage::disk('pu…
- CVE-2025-54571MEDIUMCVSS 6.1EG 6.12025-08-06
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. In versions 2.9.11 and below, an attacker can override the HTTP response’s Content-Type, which could lead to several issues de…
- CVE-2025-1394MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92025-07-30
The Ember ZNet stack’s packet buffer manager may read out of bound memory leading to an assert, causing a Denial of Service (DoS).
- CVE-2024-1545MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92024-08-29
Fault Injection vulnerability in RsaPrivateDecryption function in wolfssl/wolfcrypt/src/rsa.c in WolfSSL wolfssl5.6.6 on Linux/Windows allows remote attacker co-resides in the same system with a victim process to disclose information and…
- CVE-2024-37039MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92024-06-12
CWE-252: Unchecked Return Value vulnerability exists that could cause denial of service of the device when an attacker sends a specially crafted HTTP request.
- CVE-2023-44322MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92023-11-14
A vulnerability has been identified in RUGGEDCOM RM1224 LTE(4G) EU (6GK6108-4AM00-2BA2) (All versions < V8.0), RUGGEDCOM RM1224 LTE(4G) NAM (6GK6108-4AM00-2DA2) (All versions < V8.0), SCALANCE M804PB (6GK5804-0AP00-2AA2) (All versions < V8…
- CVE-2020-5359MEDIUMCVSS 5.8EG 5.82020-12-16
Dell BSAFE Micro Edition Suite, versions prior to 4.5, are vulnerable to an Unchecked Return Value Vulnerability. An unauthenticated remote attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability to modify and corrupt the encrypted data.
- CVE-2024-42491MEDIUMCVSS 5.7EG 5.72024-09-05
Asterisk is an open-source private branch exchange (PBX). Prior to versions 18.24.3, 20.9.3, and 21.4.3 of Asterisk and versions 18.9-cert12 and 20.7-cert2 of certified-asterisk, if Asterisk attempts to send a SIP request to a URI whose ho…
- CVE-2023-40067MEDIUMCVSS 5.7EG 5.72024-08-14
Unchecked return value in firmware for some Intel(R) CSME may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via physical access.
- CVE-2025-32414MEDIUMCVSS 5.6EG 5.62025-04-08
In libxml2 before 2.13.8 and 2.14.x before 2.14.2, out-of-bounds memory access can occur in the Python API (Python bindings) because of an incorrect return value. This occurs in xmlPythonFileRead and xmlPythonFileReadRaw because of a diffe…
- CVE-2026-98141MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-09-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: propagate reparse index insertion failure update_reparse_data() ignores the return value of set_reparse_index(). When index insertion fails, the code removes the j…
- CVE-2026-98114MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-09-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: propagate DACL parsing errors parse_dacl() silently accepts truncated ACEs and allocation failures, allowing set_info_sec() to continue with an incomplete ACL con…
- CVE-2026-64040MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-07-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: Fix error return when vfs_mkdir() fails When vfs_mkdir() fails, the error code is not extracted from the returned error pointer. This causes mkdir_error to b…
- CVE-2026-46521MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-05-18
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 bounds write can occur due to a missing chec…
- CVE-2026-35339MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-04-22
The recursive mode (-R) of the chmod utility in uutils coreutils incorrectly handles exit codes when processing multiple files. The final return value is determined solely by the success or failure of the last file processed. This allows t…
- CVE-2026-23301MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: SDCA: Add allocation failure check for Entity name Currently find_sdca_entity_iot() can allocate a string for the Entity name but it doesn't check if that allocati…
- CVE-2026-21502MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-01-07
iccDEV provides a set of libraries and tools that allow for the interaction, manipulation, and application of ICC color management profiles. Prior to version 2.3.1.2, iccDEV is vulnerable to NULL pointer dereference via the XML tag parser.…
- CVE-2026-21498MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-01-07
iccDEV provides a set of libraries and tools that allow for the interaction, manipulation, and application of ICC color management profiles. Prior to version 2.3.1.2, iccDEV is vulnerable to NULL pointer dereference via the XML calculator …
- CVE-2026-21497MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-01-07
iccDEV provides a set of libraries and tools that allow for the interaction, manipulation, and application of ICC color management profiles. Prior to version 2.3.1.2, iccDEV is vulnerable to NULL pointer dereference via an unknown tag pars…
- CVE-2026-21496MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-01-07
iccDEV provides a set of libraries and tools that allow for the interaction, manipulation, and application of ICC color management profiles. Prior to version 2.3.1.2, iccDEV is vulnerable to NULL pointer dereference via the signature parse…
- CVE-2026-21492MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-01-06
iccDEV provides a set of libraries and tools that allow for the interaction, manipulation, and application of International Color Consortium (ICC) color management profiles. Versions prior to 2.3.1.2 have a NULL pointer member call vulnera…
- CVE-2025-11839MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-10-16
A security flaw has been discovered in GNU Binutils 2.45. Impacted is the function tg_tag_type of the file prdbg.c. Performing a manipulation results in unchecked return value. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has bee…
- CVE-2025-38602MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-08-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iwlwifi: Add missing check for alloc_ordered_workqueue Add check for the return value of alloc_ordered_workqueue since it may return NULL pointer.
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