CWE-762Mismatched Memory Management Routines

Abstraction: Variant · CVEs in our corpus: 14

The product attempts to return a memory resource to the system, but it calls a release function that is not compatible with the function that was originally used to allocate that resource.

This weakness can be generally described as mismatching memory management routines, such as: When the memory management functions are mismatched, the consequences may be as severe as code execution, memory corruption, or program crash. Consequences and ease of exploit will vary depending on the implementation of the routines and the object being managed.

Last updated: 15 October 2026 14:21 UTC

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
SA-11 Developer Testing and Evaluation
SA-8 Security and Privacy Engineering Principles
SA-15 Development Process, Standards, and Tools

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 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-2023-41056`	6.6	8.1	0.0256	2024-01-10
`CVE-2024-2955`	6.1	7.8	0.0140	2024-03-26
`CVE-2024-32503`	6.1	8.4	0.0020	2024-06-07
`CVE-2025-48431`	6.1	7.5	0.0108	2026-04-28
`CVE-2023-45510`	6.0	7.5	0.0071	2023-10-12
`CVE-2026-102025`	5.9	7.5	0.0046	2026-10-14
`CVE-2025-49080`	5.8	7.5	0.0037	2025-06-12
`CVE-2026-43622`	5.7	7.8	0.0023	2026-08-06
`CVE-2025-20189`	5.3	7.4	0.0025	2025-05-07
`CVE-2023-3648`	4.1	5.3	0.0025	2023-07-14
`CVE-2025-11015`	4.0	5.3	0.0014	2025-09-26
`CVE-2024-4853`	3.1	3.6	0.0042	2024-05-14
`CVE-2025-47737`	2.8	2.9	0.0056	2025-05-09
`CVE-2025-48755`	2.7	2.9	0.0034	2025-05-24