CWE-460Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception

Abstraction: Base · CVEs in our corpus: 23

The product does not clean up its state or incorrectly cleans up its state when an exception is thrown, leading to unexpected state or control flow.

Often, when functions or loops become complicated, some level of resource cleanup is needed throughout execution. Exceptions can disturb the flow of the code and prevent the necessary cleanup from happening.

Last updated: 20 August 2026 13:14 UTC

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

This weakness contributes to A10:2025 Mishandling of Exceptional Conditions.

Control responseHuman-reviewed

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

Prevent

Stop it (NIST 800-53 / CSF Protect)

PR.PS-06
SC-24 Fail in Known State
SI-17 Fail-safe Procedures
SA-8 Security and Privacy Engineering Principles

Detect

Catch it (CSF Detect / Respond)

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Harden

Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

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Validate

Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)

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NIST 800-53 r5 controls that address this weakness (0)AI-assisted

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-2022-22150`	6.9	8.8	0.0180	2022-02-04
`CVE-2026-40583`	6.2	8.2	0.0038	2026-04-21
`CVE-2022-4744`	5.9	7.8	0.0046	2023-03-30
`CVE-2023-46393`	5.8	7.5	0.0045	2023-10-27
`CVE-2026-61387`	5.8	7.5	0.0034	2026-08-04
`CVE-2021-34716`	5.6	6.7	0.0239	2021-08-18
`CVE-2017-9657`	5.2	6.5	0.0079	2018-04-30
`CVE-2024-0316`	5.2	6.8	0.0032	2024-01-15
`CVE-2025-30157`	5.1	6.5	0.0042	2025-03-21
`CVE-2025-32439`	5.1	6.5	0.0037	2025-04-15
`CVE-2026-20118`	4.9	6.8	0.0032	2026-03-11
`CVE-2025-69652`	4.7	6.2	0.0017	2026-03-06
`CVE-2024-12289`	4.6	5.9	0.0038	2024-12-12
`CVE-2017-15127`	4.4	5.5	0.0038	2018-01-14
`CVE-2026-33481`	4.4	5.3	0.0041	2026-03-26
`CVE-2019-14891`	4.2	5.0	0.0069	2019-11-25
`CVE-2022-3707`	4.2	5.5	0.0022	2023-03-06
`CVE-2016-9592`	4.0	4.3	0.0131	2018-04-16
`CVE-2024-20354`	3.7	4.7	0.0029	2024-03-27
`CVE-2020-14304`	3.6	4.4	0.0036	2020-09-15
`CVE-2026-48524`	3.2	3.7	0.0034	2026-05-28
`CVE-2025-59399`	2.7	3.1	0.0017	2025-09-15
`CVE-2022-3301`	2.5	2.4	0.0058	2022-09-26