Security Resilience

CWE · MITRE source

CWE-788Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer

Abstraction: Base · CVEs in our corpus: 147

The product reads or writes to a buffer using an index or pointer that references a memory location after the end of the buffer.

This typically occurs when a pointer or its index is incremented to a position after the buffer; or when pointer arithmetic results in a position after the buffer.

Last updated: 14 October 2026 20:41 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
  • SI-10 Information Input Validation
  • SA-8 Security and Privacy Engineering Principles
Detect
Catch it (CSF Detect / Respond)

—

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

—

Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V1.4.1

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-2019-8280 7.99.80.04252019-03-08
CVE-2019-8264 7.89.80.03132019-03-08
CVE-2019-8265 7.89.80.03142019-03-08
CVE-2019-8266 7.89.80.02842019-03-08
CVE-2021-27384 7.79.80.02562021-05-12
CVE-2021-21105 7.48.80.08002021-09-08
CVE-2021-21104 7.38.80.06562021-09-08
CVE-2020-9731 6.87.80.11292020-09-10
CVE-2021-21082 6.57.80.04642021-03-12
CVE-2020-9727 6.47.80.03112020-09-10
CVE-2021-21092 6.47.80.03932021-04-15
CVE-2021-21093 6.47.80.03932021-04-15
CVE-2021-35997 6.47.80.03902021-08-20
CVE-2021-36015 6.47.80.03472021-08-20
CVE-2021-36049 6.47.80.03672021-09-01
CVE-2021-36052 6.47.80.03222021-09-01
CVE-2021-36059 6.47.80.03672021-09-01
CVE-2021-36067 6.47.80.03672021-09-01
CVE-2021-36068 6.47.80.03672021-09-01
CVE-2021-36069 6.47.80.03672021-09-01
CVE-2021-36070 6.47.80.04062021-09-01
CVE-2021-36076 6.47.80.03672021-09-01
CVE-2021-36078 6.47.80.03672021-09-01
CVE-2021-39816 6.47.80.03672021-09-01
CVE-2021-39817 6.47.80.03672021-09-01