Base weakness
Incomplete
CWE-771: Missing Reference to Active Allocated Resource
The product does not properly maintain a reference to a resource that has been allocated, which prevents the resource from being reclaimed.
6
Recorded CVEs
With this primary weakness
0
KEVs
In the CISA KEV catalog
Medium
Likelihood of exploit
Per MITRE
Base
Abstraction
MITRE classification
Overview
This does not necessarily apply in languages or frameworks that automatically perform garbage collection, since the removal of all references may act as a signal that the resource is ready to be reclaimed.