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Home/CWEs/cwe-787
Common Weakness Enumeration

cwe-787: Out-of-bounds Write

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The product writes past the bounds of a buffer — the most dangerous memory-safety defect.

Abstraction
Base
OWASP Top 10
A06:2021 (#6)
Exploit Likelihood
High
Related CVEs
100

How to mitigate

Use memory-safe languages where possible; bounds-check writes; fuzz with ASan.

▪ References & documentation

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/787.htmlNVD CWE listing

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