The product properly checks for the existence of a lock, but the lock can be externally controlled or influenced by an actor that is outside of the intended sphere of control.
Volume of CVEs assigned to CWE-412 and their average CVSS base score over time.
Top CVEs that have been assigned this CWE. A single CVE can have multiple CWE assignments, though many have just one.
5 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2019-18269CRITICAL Omron’s CS and CJ series PLCs have an unrestricted externally accessible lock vulnerability. | Dec 16, 2019 | 9.8 | 29 | NO | NO |
CVE-2023-22318HIGH Denial of service in Webconf in Tribe29 Checkmk Appliance before 1.6.5. | May 15, 2023 | 7.5 | 24 | NO | NO |
CVE-2023-38505HIGH DietPi-Dashboard is a web dashboard for the operating system DietPi. The dashboard only allows for one TLS handshake to be in process at a given moment. Once a TCP connection is es | Jul 27, 2023 | 7.5 | 21 | NO | NO |
CVE-2026-25612MEDIUM The internal locking mechanism of the MongoDB server uses an internal encoding of the resources in order to choose what lock to take. Collections may inadvertently collide with one | Feb 10, 2026 | 6.5 | 20 | NO | NO |
Sander Bos discovered Apport's lock file was in a world-writable directory which allowed all users to prevent crash handling. | Feb 8, 2020 | 3.3 | 16 | NO | NO |
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