The product allocates or initializes a resource such as a pointer, object, or variable using one type, but it later accesses that resource using a type that is incompatible with the original type.
Volume of CVEs assigned to CWE-843 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.
837 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2017-8291HIGH Artifex Ghostscript through 2017-04-26 allows -dSAFER bypass and remote command execution via .rsdparams type confusion with a "/OutputFile (%pipe%" substring in a crafted .eps doc | Apr 27, 2017 | 7.8 | 98 | YES | YES |
CVE-2012-0507CRITICAL Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 2 and earlier, 6 Update 30 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 33 and earlier allows re | Jun 7, 2012 | 9.8 | 98 | YES | YES |
CVE-2011-0611HIGH Adobe Flash Player before 10.2.154.27 on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris and 10.2.156.12 and earlier on Android; Adobe AIR before 2.6.19140; and Authplay.dll (aka AuthPlayLib | Apr 13, 2011 | 8.8 | 98 | YES | YES |
CVE-2020-6418HIGH Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 80.0.3987.122 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. | Feb 27, 2020 | 8.8 | 97 | YES | YES |
CVE-2019-0752HIGH A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer, aka 'Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerabil | Apr 9, 2019 | 7.5 | 95 | YES | YES |
CVE-2016-7201HIGH The Chakra JavaScript scripting engine in Microsoft Edge allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted web site, | Nov 10, 2016 | 8.8 | 95 | YES | YES |
CVE-2018-8298HIGH A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the ChakraCore scripting engine handles objects in memory, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This | Jul 11, 2018 | 7.5 | 94 | YES | YES |
CVE-2017-0037HIGH Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 and 11 and Microsoft Edge have a type confusion issue in the Layout::MultiColumnBoxBuilder::HandleColumnBreakOnColumnSpanningElement function in msht | Feb 26, 2017 | 8.1 | 94 | YES | YES |
CVE-2019-17026HIGH Incorrect alias information in IonMonkey JIT compiler for setting array elements could lead to a type confusion. We are aware of targeted attacks in the wild abusing this flaw. Thi | Mar 2, 2020 | 8.8 | 90 | YES | YES |
CVE-2021-30551HIGH Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 91.0.4472.101 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. | Jun 15, 2021 | 8.8 | 89 | YES | NO |
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