Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE Definition / CWE-123

    CWE-123: Write-what-where Condition

    Any condition where the attacker has the ability to write an arbitrary value to an arbitrary location, often as the result of a buffer overflow.

    Published:19 Jul 2006
    Organization:MITRE
    Modified:11 Dec 2025

    Related Weakness

    CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

    CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

    CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer