Security Resilience

CWE · MITRE source

CWE-121Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Abstraction: Variant · CVEs in our corpus: 3,983

A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function).

Last updated: 16 October 2026 00:29 UTC

Cumulative inbound coverage

How completely the frameworks we cross-walk collectively cover this — the verdict is the strongest single mapping (overlapping partials are not summed); breadth shows the corroboration behind it.

Collective: partial · 2 mapping(s) from 2 framework(s): STIG oracle linux 8 1 (partial) · STIG oracle linux 9 1 (partial)

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Control responseHuman-reviewed

Answering this weakness across the control lifecycle, from our framework cross-walks.

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53 / CSF Protect)
  • ID.RA-01
  • PR.PS-02
  • PR.PS-06
  • SA-11 Developer Testing and Evaluation
Detect
Catch it (CSF Detect / Respond)

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Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 2 hardening rules · 2 OS baselines
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)

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NIST 800-53 r5 controls PROPOSED for this weakness (0)AI-assisted

These are model PROPOSALS, not graded mappings. They come from controls_to_cwe_proposals, which carries no grade field at all; across the CWE pages 1,540 of 1,722 such associations (89%) have never been graded by anything. The heading said “address” until 2026-09-29, which asserted a relationship the data does not carry. Graded cross-walks are on the framework map, not here.

Control Title Family Why it addresses this CWE
No NIST controls proposed yet.

Top CVEs of this weakness type, ranked by Risk Priority

CVE Risk CVSS EPSS Published
CVE-2022-20699 KEV 10.010.00.72462022-02-10
CVE-2022-20700 KEV 10.010.00.05662022-02-10
CVE-2022-20701 KEV 10.010.00.09752022-02-10
CVE-2022-20703 KEV 10.010.00.09202022-02-10
CVE-2022-20708 KEV 10.010.00.14862022-02-10
CVE-2016-6563 9.99.80.79742018-07-13
CVE-2021-20038 KEV 9.99.80.99912021-12-08
CVE-2022-20705 9.910.00.80042022-02-10
CVE-2022-20707 9.910.00.75322022-02-10
CVE-2022-22274 9.99.80.75522022-03-25
CVE-2025-42599 KEV 9.99.80.03302025-04-18
CVE-2025-32756 KEV 9.99.80.30702025-05-13
CVE-2025-53521 KEV 9.99.80.02302025-10-15
CVE-2018-10594 9.89.80.68622018-06-26
CVE-2022-35690 9.89.80.72682022-10-14
CVE-2018-1161 9.79.80.66692018-02-08
CVE-2019-6553 9.79.80.66112019-04-04
CVE-2023-3959 9.39.80.48762023-11-08
CVE-2009-0927 KEV 9.28.80.96632009-03-19
CVE-2008-0015 KEV 9.28.80.76582009-07-07
CVE-2020-5735 KEV 9.28.80.36222020-04-08
CVE-2022-35710 9.29.80.43242022-10-14
CVE-2024-26304 9.29.80.44002024-05-01
CVE-2026-7273 KEV 9.28.80.02502026-06-16
CVE-2017-13089 9.18.80.79852017-10-27