Base weakness
Draft
CWE-459: Incomplete Cleanup
Also known as: Insufficient Cleanup
The product does not properly "clean up" and remove temporary or supporting resources after they have been used.
74
Recorded CVEs
With this primary weakness
0
KEVs
In the CISA KEV catalog
Not rated
Likelihood of exploit
Per MITRE
Base
Abstraction
MITRE classification
Overview
CWE-459 (Incomplete Cleanup) is a base-level software weakness catalogued by MITRE in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE). It describes a recurring type of mistake that can lead to exploitable security vulnerabilities.