Security Resilience

CWE · MITRE source

CWE-833Deadlock

Abstraction: Base · CVEs in our corpus: 31

The product contains multiple threads or executable segments that are waiting for each other to release a necessary lock, resulting in deadlock.

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)
  • PL-6 Security-related Activity Planning
  • PR.PS-06
  • SA-8 Security and Privacy Engineering Principles
  • SA-11 Developer Testing and Evaluation
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)
  • V15.4.3

NIST 800-53 r5 controls PROPOSED for this weakness (1)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
PL-6Security-related Activity PlanningPLAdvance scheduling and deconfliction of security tasks lowers the chance that overlapping operations will produce deadlock conditions on shared resources.

Top CVEs of this weakness type, ranked by Risk Priority

CVE Risk CVSS EPSS Published
CVE-2021-1622 6.48.60.00982021-09-23
CVE-2022-43767 6.07.50.00722023-04-11
CVE-2025-1713 6.07.50.00802025-07-17
CVE-2026-44579 6.07.50.00762026-05-13
CVE-2026-1035586.07.50.00882026-10-13
CVE-2026-701866.07.50.00852026-10-13
CVE-2026-46352 5.97.50.00472026-09-16
CVE-2025-54796 5.87.50.00432025-08-02
CVE-2024-48077 5.87.50.00342026-01-15
CVE-2025-21313 5.46.50.01632025-01-14
CVE-2025-8312 5.47.10.00322025-07-30
CVE-2026-1057925.26.50.00692026-10-06
CVE-2025-36010 5.06.50.00242025-07-29
CVE-2026-33904 5.06.50.00262026-03-27
CVE-2026-70616 5.06.50.00342026-08-05
CVE-2026-777984.96.50.00202026-09-24
CVE-2024-8447 4.85.90.00682025-01-02
CVE-2024-29172 4.75.90.00452025-02-12
CVE-2024-47506 4.65.90.00292024-10-11
CVE-2023-42441 4.55.30.00512023-09-18
CVE-2023-31084 4.45.50.00412023-04-24
CVE-2022-4269 4.25.50.00202022-12-05
CVE-2024-0639 4.25.50.00182024-01-17
CVE-2024-0641 4.25.50.00162024-01-17
CVE-2026-47334 4.15.50.00102026-05-28