CWE-242: Use of Inherently Dangerous Function

ID CWE-242
Abstraction Base
Structure Simple
Status Draft
Number of CVEs 5
The product calls a function that can never be guaranteed to work safely.

Certain functions behave in dangerous ways regardless of how they are used. Functions in this category were often implemented without taking security concerns into account. The gets() function is unsafe because it does not perform bounds checking on the size of its input. An attacker can easily send arbitrarily-sized input to gets() and overflow the destination buffer. Similarly, the >> operator is unsafe to use when reading into a statically-allocated character array because it does not perform bounds checking on the size of its input. An attacker can easily send arbitrarily-sized input to the >> operator and overflow the destination buffer.

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Type Class Name Prevalence
Language C
Language C++

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# ID View Status # ID Name Abstraction Structure Status
CWE-1000 Research Concepts Draft CWE-1177 Use of Prohibited Code Class Simple Incomplete

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# CVE Description CVSS EPSS EPSS Trend (30 days) Affected Products Weaknesses Security Advisories Exploits PoC Pubblication Date Modification Date
# CVE Description CVSS EPSS EPSS Trend (30 days) Affected Products Weaknesses Security Advisories PoC Pubblication Date Modification Date
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