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CWE-506

Embedded Malicious Code

The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.

87
Assigned CVEs
187th
Commonality Rank
8.2
Avg CVSS
10.3%
In CISA KEV

Volume and Severity of Assigned CVEs Over Time

Volume of CVEs assigned to CWE-506 and their average CVSS base score over time.

Volume of CVEsAvg CVSS Base Score
First CVE
May 29, 2018
8 years ago
Most Recent CVE
Jul 20, 2026
4 days ago

Top CVEs Assigned This CWE

Top CVEs that have been assigned this CWE. A single CVE can have multiple CWE assignments, though many have just one.

87 CVEs · Highest risk first

CVEPublishedCVSSRiskKEVExploit
CVE-2026-33634HIGH
Trivy is a security scanner. On March 19, 2026, a threat actor used compromised credentials to publish a malicious Trivy v0.69.4 release, force-push 76 of 77 version tags in `aquas
Mar 23, 20268.893YESNO
CVE-2024-3094CRITICAL
Malicious code was discovered in the upstream tarballs of xz, starting with version 5.6.0. Through a series of complex obfuscations, the liblzma build process extracts a prebuilt
Mar 29, 202410.089NOYES
CVE-2025-30066HIGH
tj-actions changed-files before 46 allows remote attackers to discover secrets by reading actions logs. (The tags v1 through v45.0.7 were affected on 2025-03-14 and 2025-03-15 beca
Mar 15, 20258.684YESNO
CVE-2026-45321CRITICAL
On 2026-05-11, between approximately 19:20 and 19:26 UTC, 84 malicious versions across 42 @tanstack/* packages were published to the npm registry. The publishes were authenticated
May 12, 20269.679YESNO
CVE-2026-48027CRITICAL
Nx Console is the user interface for Nx & Lerna. On 19 May 2026, a malicious version of Nx Console, 18.95.0, was published at 12:30 PM UTC and removed soon after at 12:48 PM UTC, l
May 27, 20269.878YESNO
CVE-2026-8398CRITICAL
A supply chain attack compromised the official installation packages of DAEMON Tools Lite (Windows versions 12.5.0.2421 through 12.5.0.2434), distributed from the legitimate websit
May 15, 20269.878YESNO
CVE-2024-4978HIGH
Justice AV Solutions Viewer Setup 8.3.7.250-1 contains a malicious binary when executed and is signed with an unexpected authenticode signature. A remote, privileged threat actor m
May 23, 20248.478YESNO
CVE-2025-59374CRITICAL
"UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED" Certain versions of the ASUS Live Update client were distributed with unauthorized modifications introduced through a supply chain compromise. The modif
Dec 17, 20259.875YESNO
CVE-2025-54313HIGH
eslint-config-prettier 8.10.1, 9.1.1, 10.1.6, and 10.1.7 has embedded malicious code for a supply chain compromise. Installing an affected package executes an install.js file that
Jul 19, 20257.565YESNO
CVE-2025-30154HIGH
reviewdog/action-setup is a GitHub action that installs reviewdog. reviewdog/action-setup@v1 was compromised March 11, 2025, between 18:42 and 20:31 UTC, with malicious code added
Mar 19, 20258.664YESNO
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CVE Severity & Scoring

This CWEGlobal (All CVEs)
0.0-0.9
1.0-1.9
2.0-2.9
3.0-3.9
10%
4.0-4.9
19%
5.0-5.9
16%
6.0-6.9
51%
26%
7.0-7.9
17%
11%
8.0-8.9
28%
14%
9.0-10.0
unknown
CVSS Score Range

Exploit Exposure

Exploit activity across CVEs assigned to this CWE, including CVEs that carry other CWE assignments.

CISA KEV
9 CVEs
10.3% of CVEs· 99th percentile
Metasploit
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%
Nuclei
1 CVE
1.1% of CVEs· 86th percentile
ExploitDB
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%

Social Chatter

Social posts that mention CVE IDs assigned to this CWE. This is assigned-CVE activity, not mentions of the CWE label itself.

Media Mentions

Media articles that mention CVE IDs assigned to this CWE. This is assigned-CVE coverage, not mentions of the CWE label itself.

Top Affected Vendors

Top Affected Products