Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE Definition / CWE-468

    CWE-468: Incorrect Pointer Scaling

    In C and C++, one may often accidentally refer to the wrong memory due to the semantics of when math operations are implicitly scaled.

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

    Related Weakness

    CWE-682: Incorrect Calculation