Security Resilience

CWE · MITRE source

CWE-825Expired Pointer Dereference

Abstraction: Base · CVEs in our corpus: 96

The product dereferences a pointer that contains a location for memory that was previously valid, but is no longer valid.

When a product releases memory, but it maintains a pointer to that memory, then the memory might be re-allocated at a later time. If the original pointer is accessed to read or write data, then this could cause the product to read or modify data that is in use by a different function or process. Depending on how the newly-allocated memory is used, this could lead to a denial of service, information exposure, or code execution.

Last updated: 15 October 2026 07:26 UTC

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
  • ID.AM-08
  • PR.PS-02
  • PR.PS-06
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-2023-48316 7.99.80.04332023-12-05
CVE-2024-23310 7.69.80.01702024-02-20
CVE-2026-6722 7.69.80.01292026-05-10
CVE-2024-23638 7.46.50.60052024-01-24
CVE-2026-4688 7.410.00.00532026-03-24
CVE-2026-4691 7.39.80.00482026-03-24
CVE-2026-4696 7.39.80.00482026-03-24
CVE-2026-4721 7.39.80.00422026-03-24
CVE-2026-4729 7.39.80.00462026-03-24
CVE-2026-52924 7.39.80.00532026-06-24
CVE-2026-53006 7.39.80.00392026-06-24
CVE-2026-45972 7.29.80.00332026-05-27
CVE-2026-12293 7.29.80.00302026-06-16
CVE-2026-53175 7.29.80.00312026-06-25
CVE-2023-48315 7.18.80.03902023-12-05
CVE-2026-45447 7.18.80.04002026-06-09
CVE-2025-49794 7.09.10.00832025-06-16
CVE-2023-48692 6.89.00.03112023-12-05
CVE-2026-33526 6.77.50.08942026-03-26
CVE-2026-46125 6.58.80.00442026-05-28
CVE-2026-12291 6.58.80.00382026-06-16
CVE-2023-20212 6.47.50.03442023-08-18
CVE-2026-46166 6.48.80.00292026-05-28
CVE-2026-34774 6.28.10.00552026-04-04
CVE-2026-6100 6.28.10.00762026-04-13