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CWE-121Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Abstraction: Variant · CVEs in our corpus: 3,203

A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function).

Last updated: 09 May 2026 03:25 UTC

NIST 800-53 r5 controls that address this weakness (0)AI

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Top CVEs of this weakness type, ranked by Risk Priority

CVE Risk CVSS EPSS Published
CVE-2021-20038 KEV9.69.80.94292021-12-08
CVE-2009-0927 KEV9.48.80.93312009-03-19
CVE-2022-20699 KEV9.410.00.90022022-02-10
CVE-2025-0282 KEV9.49.00.94132025-01-08
CVE-2008-0015 KEV8.78.80.81582009-07-07
CVE-2016-65637.19.80.84892018-07-13
CVE-2020-5735 KEV7.08.80.53522020-04-08
CVE-2025-22457 KEV7.09.00.53662025-04-03
CVE-2022-207076.910.00.81402022-02-10
CVE-2021-335496.87.20.88732021-09-13
CVE-2022-207056.810.00.80212022-02-10
CVE-2018-105946.79.80.78242018-06-26
CVE-2025-32756 KEV6.59.80.41632025-05-13
CVE-2018-5002 KEV6.47.80.47142018-07-09
CVE-2024-263046.49.80.73242024-05-01
CVE-2017-130896.38.80.75772017-10-27
CVE-2024-271306.37.20.81002024-05-21
CVE-2012-100236.29.80.70592025-08-05
CVE-2012-100606.19.80.69062025-08-13
CVE-2010-201216.19.80.68642025-08-21
CVE-2019-56195.99.80.65862020-04-29
CVE-2019-74825.89.80.64582019-12-19
CVE-2020-109245.88.80.66772020-07-28
CVE-2021-427565.89.80.64222023-02-16
CVE-2010-201135.79.80.62712025-08-21