The product makes resources available to untrusted parties when those resources are only intended to be accessed by the product.
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Server leaks a privileged file descriptor, allowing the server to be hijacked.
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CWE-402: Transmission of Private Resources into a New Sphere ('Resource Leak') is a Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) entry maintained by MITRE. The product makes resources available to untrusted parties when those resources are only intended to be accessed by the product.
If exploited, CWE-402 (Transmission of Private Resources into a New Sphere ('Resource Leak')) it can compromise Confidentiality, leading to outcomes such as Read Application Data.
MITRE documents real CVEs mapped to CWE-402, including CVE-2003-0740 and CVE-2004-1033. You can look up the full details of each CVE, including CVSS scores and remediation guidance, on our CVE Lookup tool.
A CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration) like CWE-402 describes a category of software weakness — the underlying flaw type. A CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) identifies a specific, real-world vulnerability in a particular product. In short, a CWE is the kind of mistake, and a CVE is an instance of that mistake being found in software.