What MITRE says

The description above is MITRE’s definition of CWE-665 in CWE 4.20, a class-level weakness.

Common consequences MITRE lists

  • Confidentiality: Read Memory; Read Application Data
  • Access Control: Bypass Protection Mechanism
  • Availability: DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart

Guides on this site

Cites this weakness · Guide

DeFi attack patterns: oracles, flash loans, proxies and signatures

The four smart-contract attack classes beyond reentrancy: price-oracle manipulation, flash-loan amplification, upgradeable-proxy storage collisions and uninitialized implementations, and signature replay, each with vulnerable and fixed Solidity, Foundry tests and verified incidents.

References

  1. CWE-665 in the MITRE CWE list (version 4.20)

This page is generated from MITRE’s CWE 4.20 catalogue (released 30 April 2026) and lists every guide, fix card and lab here that cites CWE-665.

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