NULL Pointer Dereference
CWE-476
The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.
We track 682 vulnerabilities of this type. 100% are rated high or critical, and the average CVSS score is 7.7. 1 has been exploited in real attacks.
How this weakness is prevented
- Implementation: For any pointers that could have been modified or provided from a function that can return NULL, check the pointer for NULL before use. When working with a multithreaded or otherwise asynchronous environment, ensure that proper locking APIs are used to lock before the check, and unlock when it has finished.
- Requirements: Select a programming language that is not susceptible to these issues.
- Implementation: Check the results of all functions that return a value and verify that the value is non-null before acting upon it.
- Architecture and Design: Identify all variables and data stores that receive information from external sources, and apply input validation to make sure that they are only initialized to expected values.
- Implementation: Explicitly initialize all variables and other data stores, either during declaration or just before the first usage.
Latest NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerabilities
- 7.5 High severity
Exynos 1380 Firmware: NULL Pointer Dereference
An issue was discovered in NPU in Samsung Mobile Processor Exynos 1380 through July 2025. There is a NULL Pointer Dereference of profiler.node in the npu_vertex_profileoff function.
- 7.5 High severity
wazuh: NULL Pointer Dereference
Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. Prior to 4.11.0, DecodeCiscat() implementation does not check the return the value of cJSON_GetObjectItem() for a possible NULL value in case of an error. A compromis
- 7.5 High severity
wazuh: Unchecked Return Value
Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. Prior to 4.11.0, fim_fetch_attributes_state() implementation does not check whether time_string is NULL or not before calling strlen() on it. A compromised agent can
- 7.5 High severity
wazuh: Unchecked Return Value
Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. Prior to 4.11.0, fim_alert() implementation does not check whether the return value of ctime_r is NULL or not before calling strdup() on it. A compromised agent can c
- 7.5 High severity
wazuh: Unchecked Return Value
Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. fillData() implementation does not check whether value is NULL or not before calling os_strdup() on it. A compromised agent can cause a crash of analysisd by sending
- 7.5 High severity
Frrouting: NULL Pointer Dereference
FRRouting/frr from v4.0 through v10.4.1 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the show_vty_ext_pref_pref_sid function at ospf_ext.c. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted LSA Update packet.
- 7.5 High severity
Frrouting: NULL Pointer Dereference
FRRouting/frr from v4.0 through v10.4.1 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the show_vty_ext_pref_pref_sid function at ospf_ext.c. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted OSPF packet.
- 7.5 High severity
Frrouting: NULL Pointer Dereference
FRRouting/frr from v4.0 through v10.4.1 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the show_vty_unknown_tlv function at ospf_ext.c. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted OSPF packet.
- 7.5 High severity
Frrouting: NULL Pointer Dereference
FRRouting/frr from v4.0 through v10.4.1 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the show_vty_ext_link_lan_adj_sid function at ospf_ext.c. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted OSPF packet.
- 7.5 High severity
Frrouting: NULL Pointer Dereference
FRRouting/frr from v4.0 through v10.4.1 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the show_vty_link_info function at ospf_ext.c. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted OSPF packet.
- 7.5 High severity
Frrouting: NULL Pointer Dereference
FRRouting/frr from v4.0 through v10.4.1 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the show_vty_ext_link_adj_sid function at ospf_ext.c. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted OSPF packet.
- 7.5 High severity
Frrouting: NULL Pointer Dereference
FRRouting/frr from v4.0 through v10.4.1 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the show_vty_ext_link_rmt_itf_addr function at ospf_ext.c. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted OSPF packet.
- 7.5 High severity
Frrouting: NULL Pointer Dereference
FRRouting/frr from v2.0 through v10.4.1 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the ospf_opaque_lsa_dump function at ospf_opaque.c. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) under specific malformed LSA conditions.
- 7.5 High severity
Frrouting: NULL Pointer Dereference
FRRouting/frr from v2.0 through v10.4.1 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the opaque_info_detail function at ospf_opaque.c. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted LS Update packet.
- 7.5 High severity
N600r Firmware: NULL Pointer Dereference
A NULL pointer dereference in the sub_41773C function of TOTOLINK N600R v4.3.0cu.7866_B20220506 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted HTTP request.
- 7.5 High severity
N600r Firmware: NULL Pointer Dereference
A NULL pointer dereference in the main function of TOTOLINK N600R v4.3.0cu.7866_B20220506 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted HTTP request.
- 7.5 High severity
Dir-823g Firmware: NULL Pointer Dereference
A NULL pointer dereference in the SetWLanRadioSettings function of D-Link DIR-823G A1 v1.0.2B05 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted HTTP request.
- 7.5 High severity
envoy: NULL Pointer Dereference
Envoy is a cloud-native, open source edge and service proxy. Prior to 1.36.1, 1.35.5, 1.34.9, and 1.33.10, large requests and responses can potentially trigger TCP connection pool crashes due to flow control management in Envoy. It will happen when the connect
- 7.5 High severity
BIG-IP: NULL Pointer Dereference
When a per-request policy is configured on a BIG-IP APM portal access virtual server, undisclosed traffic can cause the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) to terminate. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evalua
- 7.5 High severity
BIG-IP Next SPK: NULL Pointer Dereference
When HTTP/2 Ingress is configured, undisclosed traffic can cause the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) to terminate. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.
- 7.5 High severity
omni: NULL Pointer Dereference
Omni manages Kubernetes on bare metal, virtual machines, or in a cloud. Prior to 1.1.5 and 1.0.2, there is a nil pointer dereference vulnerability in the Omni Resource Service allows unauthenticated users to cause a server panic and denial of service by sendin
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: NULL Pointer Dereference
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memcontrol: ensure memcg acquired by id is properly set up In the eviction recency check, we attempt to retrieve the memcg to which the folio belonged when it was evicted, by the memcg id stor
- 8.7 High severity
volto: NULL Pointer Dereference
Volto is a ReactJS-based frontend for the Plone Content Management System. Versions 16.34.0 and below, 17.0.0 through 17.22.1, 18.0.0 through 18.27.1, and 19.0.0-alpha.1 through 19.0.0-alpha.5, an anonymous user could cause the NodeJS server part of Volto to q
- 7.5 High severity
argo-cd: NULL Pointer Dereference
Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. Versions 1.2.0 through 1.8.7, 2.0.0-rc1 through 2.14.19, 3.0.0-rc1 through 3.2.0-rc1, 3.1.7 and 3.0.18 are vulnerable to malicious API requests which can crash the API server and cause d
- 7.5 High severity
suricata: NULL Pointer Dereference
Suricata is a network IDS, IPS and NSM engine developed by the OISF (Open Information Security Foundation) and the Suricata community. Version 8.0.0's usage of the tls.subjectaltname keyword can lead to a segmentation fault when the decoded subjectaltname cont
- 7.5 High severity
suricata: NULL Pointer Dereference
Suricata is a network IDS, IPS and NSM engine developed by the OISF (Open Information Security Foundation) and the Suricata community. Versions 8.0.0 and below incorrectly handle the entropy keyword when not anchored to a "sticky" buffer, which can lead to a s
- 8.7 High severity
Central Monitor CNS-6201: NULL Pointer Dereference
Multiple versions of Central Monitor CNS-6201 contain a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability. When processing a crafted certain UDP packet, the affected device may abnormally terminate.
- 7.5 High severity
Mupdf: NULL Pointer Dereference
A null pointer dereference occurs in the function break_word_for_overflow_wrap() in MuPDF 1.26.4 when rendering a malformed EPUB document. Specifically, the function calls fz_html_split_flow() to split a FLOW_WORD node, but does not check if node->next is vali
- 7.3 High severity
Sumatrapdf: NULL Pointer Dereference
A null pointer dereference vulnerability was discovered in SumatraPDF 3.5.2 during the processing of a crafted .djvu file. When the file is opened, the application crashes inside libmupdf.dll, specifically in the DataPool::has_data() function.
- 7.5 High severity
Xen: NULL Pointer Dereference
[This CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.] There are two issues related to the mapping of pages belonging to other domains: For one, an assertion is wrong there, where the ca
- 7.5 High severity
ControlLogix® 5580: NULL Pointer Dereference
A denial-of-service security issue exists in the affected product and version. The security issue stems from the controller repeatedly attempting to forward messages. The issue could result in a major nonrecoverable fault on the controller.
- 7.5 High severity
Android: NULL Pointer Dereference
In TBD of TBD, there is a possible DoS due to a missing null check. This could lead to remote denial of service with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.
- 7.5 High severity
Rust-ffmpeg: NULL Pointer Dereference
An issue was discovered in rust-ffmpeg 0.3.0 (after comit 5ac0527) An integer overflow vulnerability in the Vector::new constructor function allows an attacker to cause a denial of service via a null pointer dereference. The vulnerability stems from an uncheck
- 7.5 High severity
Rust-ffmpeg: NULL Pointer Dereference
An issue was discovered in rust-ffmpeg 0.3.0 (after comit 5ac0527) A null pointer dereference vulnerability in the input() constructor function allows an attacker to cause a denial of service. The vulnerability is triggered when the avio_alloc_context() call f
- 7.5 High severity
Rust-ffmpeg: NULL Pointer Dereference
An issue was discovered in rust-ffmpeg 0.3.0 (after comit 5ac0527) Null pointer dereference vulnerability in the name() method allows an attacker to cause a denial of service. The vulnerability exists because the method fails to check for a NULL return value f
- 7.5 High severity
Kea: NULL Pointer Dereference
If a DHCPv4 client sends a request with some specific options, and Kea fails to find an appropriate subnet for the client, the `kea-dhcp4` process will abort with an assertion failure. This happens only if the client request is unicast directly to Kea; broadca
- 7.5 High severity
firebird: NULL Pointer Dereference
Firebird is a relational database. Prior to versions 3.0.13, 4.0.6, and 5.0.3, there is an XDR message parsing NULL pointer dereference denial-of-service vulnerability in Firebird. This specific flaw exists within the parsing of xdr message from client. It lea
- 7.5 High severity
BIG-IP: NULL Pointer Dereference
When a BIG-IP LTM Client SSL profile is configured on a virtual server with SSL Forward Proxy enabled and Anonymous Diffie-Hellman (ADH) ciphers enabled, undisclosed requests can cause the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) to terminate. Note: Software versi
- 7.5 High severity
Wf2780 Firmware: NULL Pointer Dereference
A null pointer dereference vulnerability was discovered in Netis WF2780 v2.2.35445. The vulnerability exists in the FUN_0048a728 function of the cgitest.cgi file. Attackers can trigger this vulnerability by controlling the CONTENT_LENGTH variable, causing the
- 7.5 High severity
Control RTE (SL): NULL Pointer Dereference
An unauthenticated remote attacker may trigger a NULL pointer dereference in the affected CODESYS Control runtime systems by sending specially crafted communication requests, potentially leading to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.