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CWE-690

Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference

CompoundDraftChain36 CVEs
The product does not check for an error after calling a function that can return with a NULL pointer if the function fails, which leads to a resultant NULL pointer dereference.

Extended description

While unchecked return value weaknesses are not limited to returns of NULL pointers (see the examples in CWE-252), functions often return NULL to indicate an error status. When this error condition is not checked, a NULL pointer dereference can occur.

Common consequences2

  • AvailabilityDoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart
  • IntegrityConfidentialityAvailabilityExecute Unauthorized Code or CommandsRead MemoryModify Memory

    In rare circumstances, when NULL is equivalent to the 0x0 memory address and privileged code can access it, then writing or reading memory is possible, which may lead to code execution.

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CVEs referencing this CWE36

CVEDescriptionSeverityEPSSFlagsModified
CVE-2021-21479

In SCIMono before 0.0.19, it is possible for an attacker to inject and execute java expression compromising the availability and integrity of the system.

CRITICAL9.1
8.71%p94
2024-11-21
CVE-2020-6095

An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists in the GstRTSPAuth functionality of GStreamer/gst-rtsp-server 1.14.5. A specially crafted RTSP setup request can cause a null pointer deference resulting in denial-of-service. An attacker can send a malicious packet to trigger this vulnerability.

HIGH7.5
2.87%p85
2024-11-21
CVE-2020-13582

A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the HTTP Server functionality of Micrium uC-HTTP 3.01.00. A specially crafted HTTP request can lead to denial of service. An attacker can send an HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability.

HIGH7.5
2.61%p83
2024-11-21
CVE-2020-1648

On Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved devices, processing a specific BGP packet can lead to a routing process daemon (RPD) crash and restart. This issue can occur even before the BGP session with the peer is established. Repeated receipt of this specific BGP packet can result in an extended Denial of Service (DoS) condition. This issue affects: Juniper Networks Junos OS: 18.2X75 versions starting from 18.2X75-D50.8, 18.2X75-D60 and later versions, prior to 18.2X75-D52.8, 18.2X75-D53, 18.2X75-D60.2, 18.2X75-D65.1, 18.2X75-D70; 19.4 versions 19.4R1 and 19.4R1-S1; 20.1 versions prior to 20.1R1-S2, 20.1R2. Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved: 19.4-EVO versions prior to 19.4R2-S2-EVO; 20.1-EVO versions prior to 20.1R2-EVO. This issue does not affect: Juniper Networks Junos OS releases prior to 19.4R1. Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved releases prior to 19.4R1-EVO.

HIGH7.5
1.28%p66
2024-11-21
CVE-2022-20682

A vulnerability in the Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) protocol processing of Cisco IOS XE Wireless Controller Software for the Catalyst 9000 Family could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to inadequate input validation of incoming CAPWAP packets encapsulating multicast DNS (mDNS) queries. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by connecting to a wireless network and sending a crafted mDNS query, which would flow through and be processed by the wireless controller. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to crash and reload, resulting in a DoS condition.

HIGH8.6
1.26%p66
2024-11-21
CVE-2020-36646

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in MediaArea ZenLib up to 0.4.38. This affects the function Ztring::Date_From_Seconds_1970_Local of the file Source/ZenLib/Ztring.cpp. The manipulation of the argument Value leads to unchecked return value to null pointer dereference. Upgrading to version 0.4.39 is able to address this issue. The identifier of the patch is 6475fcccd37c9cf17e0cfe263b5fe0e2e47a8408. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier VDB-217629 was assigned to this vulnerability.

HIGH7.5
1.18%p63
2024-11-21
CVE-2022-25885

The package muhammara before 2.6.0; all versions of package hummus are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) when PDFStreamForResponse() is used with invalid data.

HIGH7.5
1.14%p62
2025-05-05
CVE-2022-25892

The package muhammara before 2.6.1, from 3.0.0 and before 3.1.1; all versions of package hummus are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) when supplied with a maliciously crafted PDF file to be parsed.

HIGH7.5
1.02%p59
2025-05-06
CVE-2022-41957

Muhammara is a node module with c/cpp bindings to modify PDF with JavaScript for node or electron. The package muhammara before 2.6.2 and from 3.0.0 and before 3.3.0, as well as all versions of muhammara's predecessor package hummus, are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) when supplied with a maliciously crafted PDF file to be parsed. The issue has been patched in muhammara version 3.4.0 and the fix has been backported to version 2.6.2. As a workaround, do not process files from untrusted sources. If using hummus, replace the package with muhammara.

HIGH7.5
0.93%p56
2025-04-23
CVE-2022-39381

Muhammara is a node module with c/cpp bindings to modify PDF with js for node or electron (based/replacement on/of galkhana/hummusjs). The package muhammara before 2.6.0; all versions of package hummus are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) when supplied with a maliciously crafted PDF file to be appended to another. This issue has been patched in 2.6.0 for muhammara and not at all for hummus. As a workaround, do not process files from untrusted sources.

MEDIUM5.5
0.65%p46
2025-04-22
CVE-2024-23085

Apfloat v1.10.1 was discovered to contain a NullPointerException via the component org.apfloat.internal.DoubleScramble::scramble(double[], int, int[]). NOTE: this is disputed by multiple third parties who believe there was not reasonable evidence to determine the existence of a vulnerability. The submission may have been based on a tool that is not sufficiently robust for vulnerability identification.

HIGH7.5
0.62%p45
2025-06-18
CVE-2022-22231

An Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). On SRX Series if Unified Threat Management (UTM) Enhanced Content Filtering (CF) and AntiVirus (AV) are enabled together and the system processes specific valid transit traffic the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) will crash and restart. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R1-S2, 21.4R2 on SRX Series. This issue does not affect Juniper Networks Junos OS versions prior to 21.4R1.

HIGH7.5
0.62%p45
2025-05-12
CVE-2024-31175

Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Open Networking Foundation (ONF) libfluid (libfluid_msg module). This vulnerability is associated with program routine fluid_msg::of13::TablePropertiesList::unpack. This issue affects libfluid: 0.1.0.

HIGH7.5
0.52%p40
2024-09-20
CVE-2024-31167

Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Open Networking Foundation (ONF) libfluid (libfluid_msg module). This vulnerability is associated with program routine fluid_msg::QueuePropertyList::unpack13. This issue affects libfluid: 0.1.0.

HIGH7.5
0.52%p40
2024-09-20
CVE-2024-31165

Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Open Networking Foundation (ONF) libfluid (libfluid_msg module). This vulnerability is associated with program routine fluid_msg::of13::SetFieldAction::unpack. This issue affects libfluid: 0.1.0.

HIGH7.5
0.52%p40
2024-09-20
CVE-2024-31164

Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Open Networking Foundation (ONF) libfluid (libfluid_msg module). This vulnerability is associated with program routines fluid_msg::ActionList::unpack13. This issue affects libfluid: 0.1.0.

HIGH7.5
0.52%p40
2024-09-20
CVE-2024-23916

Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Open Networking Foundation (ONF) libfluid (libfluid_msg module). This vulnerability is associated with program routines fluid_msg::ActionSet::unpack. This issue affects libfluid: 0.1.0.

HIGH7.5
0.52%p40
2024-09-20
CVE-2024-23915

Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Open Networking Foundation (ONF) libfluid (libfluid_msg module). This vulnerability is associated with program routines fluid_msg::of13::InstructionSet::unpack. This issue affects libfluid: 0.1.0.

HIGH7.5
0.52%p40
2024-09-20
CVE-2024-31185

Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Open Networking Foundation (ONF) libfluid (libfluid_msg module). This vulnerability is associated with program routine fluid_msg::of13::MeterBandList::unpack. This issue affects libfluid: 0.1.0.

HIGH7.5
0.43%p34
2024-09-20
CVE-2024-31182

Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Open Networking Foundation (ONF) libfluid (libfluid_msg module). This vulnerability is associated with program routine fluid_msg::QueuePropertyList::unpack10. This issue affects libfluid: 0.1.0.

HIGH7.5
0.43%p34
2024-09-20
CVE-2026-24160

NVIDIA TRT-LLM for any platform contains a vulnerability where an attacker could cause an unchecked return value to a null pointer dereference. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to denial of service.

HIGH7.5
0.42%p34
2026-05-21
CVE-2026-24404

iccDEV provides libraries and tools for interacting with, manipulating, and applying ICC color management profiles. In versions 2.3.1.1 and below, CIccXmlArrayType() contains a Null Pointer Dereference and Undefined Behavior vulnerability. This occurs when user-controllable input is unsafely incorporated into ICC profile data or other structured binary blobs. Successful exploitation may allow an attacker to perform DoS, manipulate data, bypass application logic and Code Execution. This issue has been fixed in version 2.3.1.2.

HIGH8.8
0.40%p31
2026-01-30
CVE-2024-31196

Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Open Networking Foundation (ONF) libfluid (libfluid_msg module). This vulnerability is associated with program routine fluid_msg::ActionList::unpack10. This issue affects libfluid: 0.1.0.

HIGH7.5
0.40%p32
2024-09-20
CVE-2026-24411

iccDEV provides libraries and tools for interacting with, manipulating, and applying ICC color management profiles. Versions 2.3.1.1 and below have Undefined Behavior in CIccTagXmlSegmentedCurve::ToXml(). This occurs when user-controllable input is unsafely incorporated into ICC profile data or other structured binary blobs. Successful exploitation may allow an attacker to perform DoS, manipulate data, bypass application logic and Code Execution. This issue has been fixed in version 2.3.1.2.

HIGH8.8
0.31%p23
2026-01-30
CVE-2026-24410

iccDEV provides libraries and tools for interacting with, manipulating, and applying ICC color management profiles. Versions 2.3.1.1 and below have Undefined Behavior and Null Pointer Deference in CIccProfileXml::ParseBasic(). This occurs when user-controllable input is unsafely incorporated into ICC profile data or other structured binary blobs. Successful exploitation may allow an attacker to perform DoS, manipulate data, bypass application logic and Code Execution. This issue has been fixed in version 2.3.1.2.

HIGH8.8
0.31%p23
2026-01-30
CVE-2026-24409

iccDEV provides libraries and tools for interacting with, manipulating, and applying ICC color management profiles. Versions 2.3.1.1 and below have Undefined Behavior and Null Pointer Deference in CIccTagXmlFloatNum<>::ParseXml(). This occurs when user-controllable input is unsafely incorporated into ICC profile data or other structured binary blobs. Successful exploitation may allow an attacker to perform DoS, manipulate data, bypass application logic and Code Execution. This issue has been fixed in version 2.3.1.2.

HIGH8.8
0.31%p23
2026-01-30
CVE-2026-21689

iccDEV provides a set of libraries and tools that allow for the interaction, manipulation, and application of International Color Consortium (ICC) color management profiles. Versions prior to 2.3.1.2 have a Type Confusion vulnerability in `CIccProfileXml::ParseBasic()` at `IccXML/IccLibXML/IccProfileXml.cpp`. This vulnerability affects users of the iccDEV library who process ICC color profiles. Version 2.3.1.2 contains a patch. No known workarounds are available.

MEDIUM6.5
0.27%p19
2026-01-12
CVE-2024-42329

The webdriver for the Browser object expects an error object to be initialized when the webdriver_session_query function fails. But this function can fail for various reasons without an error description and then the wd->error will be NULL and trying to read from it will result in a crash.

LOW3.3
0.24%p15
2025-10-08
CVE-2024-42328

When the webdriver for the Browser object downloads data from a HTTP server, the data pointer is set to NULL and is allocated only in curl_write_cb when receiving data. If the server's response is an empty document, then wd->data in the code below will remain NULL and an attempt to read from it will result in a crash.

MEDIUM5.5
0.23%p13
2025-10-08
CVE-2022-22233

An Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Routing Protocol Daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows a locally authenticated attacker with low privileges to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). In Segment Routing (SR) to Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) interworking scenario, configured with Segment Routing Mapping Server (SRMS) at any node, when an Area Border Router (ABR) leaks the SRMS entries having "S" flag set from IS-IS Level 2 to Level 1, an rpd core might be observed when a specific low privileged CLI command is issued. This issue affects: Juniper Networks Junos OS 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R1-S2, 21.4R2-S1, 21.4R3; 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R2. Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved 21.4-EVO versions prior to 21.4R1-S2-EVO, 21.4R2-S1-EVO, 21.4R3-EVO; 22.1-EVO versions prior to 22.1R2-EVO. This issue does not affect: Juniper Networks Junos OS versions prior to 21.4R1. Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved versions prior to 21.4R1-EVO.

MEDIUM5.5
0.17%p7
2025-05-09
CVE-2026-21502

iccDEV provides a set of libraries and tools that allow for the interaction, manipulation, and application of ICC color management profiles. Prior to version 2.3.1.2, iccDEV is vulnerable to NULL pointer dereference via the XML tag parser. This issue has been patched in version 2.3.1.2.

MEDIUM5.5
0.16%p5
2026-01-09
CVE-2026-21499

iccDEV provides a set of libraries and tools that allow for the interaction, manipulation, and application of ICC color management profiles. Prior to version 2.3.1.2, iccDEV is vulnerable to NULL pointer dereference via the XML parser. This issue has been patched in version 2.3.1.2.

MEDIUM5.5
0.16%p5
2026-01-09
CVE-2026-21498

iccDEV provides a set of libraries and tools that allow for the interaction, manipulation, and application of ICC color management profiles. Prior to version 2.3.1.2, iccDEV is vulnerable to NULL pointer dereference via the XML calculator parser. This issue has been patched in version 2.3.1.2.

MEDIUM5.5
0.16%p5
2026-01-09
CVE-2026-21496

iccDEV provides a set of libraries and tools that allow for the interaction, manipulation, and application of ICC color management profiles. Prior to version 2.3.1.2, iccDEV is vulnerable to NULL pointer dereference via the signature parser. This issue has been patched in version 2.3.1.2.

MEDIUM5.5
0.16%p5
2026-01-09
CVE-2026-44638

libsixel is a SIXEL encoder/decoder implementation derived from kmiya's sixel. From to 1.8.7-r1, a wrong NULL check after an allocation call in sixel_decode_raw and sixel_decode causes a NULL pointer dereference whenever the allocation fails. The check tests the address of the output parameter (always non-NULL) instead of the value the malloc returned. On allocation failure, the function continues and writes through a NULL pointer, crashing the process. This is a denial of service against any caller of these public APIs that hits a low-memory condition. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.8.7-r2.

LOW2.5
0.13%p3
2026-05-15
CVE-2025-33192

NVIDIA DGX Spark GB10 contains a vulnerability in SROOT firmware, where an attacker could cause an arbitrary memory read. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to denial of service.

MEDIUM5.5
0.12%p2
2025-12-02