Security Resilience

CWE · MITRE source

CWE-909Missing Initialization of Resource

Abstraction: Class · CVEs in our corpus: 103

The product does not initialize a critical resource.

Many resources require initialization before they can be properly used. If a resource is not initialized, it could contain unpredictable or expired data, or it could be initialized to defaults that are invalid. This can have security implications when the resource is expected to have certain properties or values.

Last updated: 16 October 2026 07:24 UTC

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-2022-22704 7.69.80.01332022-01-06
CVE-2026-64035 7.39.80.00442026-07-19
CVE-2019-25016 7.08.80.02712021-01-28
CVE-2021-23994 6.98.80.01762021-06-24
CVE-2018-14647 6.87.50.10912018-09-25
CVE-2021-29980 6.88.80.01402021-08-17
CVE-2019-9639 6.77.50.08202019-03-09
CVE-2018-10811 6.67.50.06202018-06-19
CVE-2019-3804 6.57.50.04862019-03-26
CVE-2019-12410 6.57.50.04612019-11-08
CVE-2020-16932 6.57.80.04822020-10-16
CVE-2018-1000224 6.47.50.03792018-08-20
CVE-2019-12408 6.47.50.03252019-11-08
CVE-2019-19553 6.47.50.04132019-12-05
CVE-2025-38601 6.48.80.00242025-08-19
CVE-2019-16714 6.37.50.02702019-09-23
CVE-2018-21247 6.37.50.02452020-06-17
CVE-2021-1405 6.37.50.03032021-04-08
CVE-2021-36386 6.37.50.02562021-07-30
CVE-2024-8178 6.38.80.00602024-09-05
CVE-2020-11741 6.28.80.00422020-04-14
CVE-2021-36513 6.27.50.01872021-10-18
CVE-2021-31919 6.17.50.01082021-04-30
CVE-2022-29968 6.17.80.01062022-05-02
CVE-2019-25054 6.07.50.00962021-12-27