Nama: Premature Release of Resource During Expected Lifetime

The product releases a resource that is still intended to be used by itself or another actor.

Informasi Umum

Mode Pengenalan

Implementation

Platform yang Berlaku

Bahasa

Kelas: Not Language-Specific (Undetermined)

Konsekuensi Umum

Cakupan	Dampak	Kemungkinan
Confidentiality	Read Application Data, Read Memory Catatan: If the released resource is subsequently reused or reallocated, then a read operation on the original resource might access sensitive data that is associated with a different user or entity.
Availability	Unexpected State, DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart Catatan: When the resource is released, the software might modify some of its structure, or close associated channels (such as a file descriptor). When the software later accesses the resource as if it is valid, the resource might not be in an expected state, leading to resultant errors that may lead to a crash.
Integrity Confidentiality Availability	Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands, Modify Application Data, Modify Memory Catatan: When the resource is released, the software might modify some of its structure. This might affect logic in the sections of code that still assume the resource is active. If the released resource is related to memory and is used in a function call, or points to unexpected data in a write operation, then code execution may be possible upon subsequent accesses.

Contoh yang Diamati

Referensi	Deskripsi
CVE-2009-3547	Chain: race condition (CWE-362) might allow resource to be released before operating on it, leading to NULL dereference (CWE-476)

Metode Deteksi

Automated Static Analysis

Automated static analysis, commonly referred to as Static Application Security Testing (SAST), can find some instances of this weakness by analyzing source code (or binary/compiled code) without having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect "sources" (origins of input) with "sinks" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)

Catatan Pemetaan Kerentanan

Justifikasi : This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.
Komentar : Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

Catatan

This weakness focuses on errors in which the product should not release a resource, but performs the release anyway. This is different than a weakness in which the product releases a resource at the appropriate time, but it maintains a reference to the resource, which it later accesses.
Under-studied and under-reported as of September 2010. This weakness has been reported in high-visibility software, although the focus has been primarily on memory allocation and de-allocation. There are very few examples of this weakness that are not directly related to memory management, although such weaknesses are likely to occur in real-world software for other types of resources.

Pengajuan

Nama	Organisasi	Tanggal	Tanggal rilis	Version
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2010-09-22 +00:00	2010-09-27 +00:00	1.10

Modifikasi

Nama	Organisasi	Tanggal	Komentar
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2011-06-01 +00:00	updated Common_Consequences
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2020-02-24 +00:00	updated Description, Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-01-31 +00:00	updated Common_Consequences, Description
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-04-27 +00:00	updated Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-06-29 +00:00	updated Mapping_Notes
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-10-26 +00:00	updated Observed_Examples
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2025-12-11 +00:00	updated Applicable_Platforms, Detection_Factors, Time_of_Introduction, Weakness_Ordinalities
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2026-10-28 +00:00	updated Common_Consequences, Description, Relationship_Notes

Detail CWE-826

CWE-826