CWE-157: Failure to Sanitize Paired Delimiters
ID
CWE-157
Abstraction
Variant
Structure
Simple
Status
Draft
The product does not properly handle the characters that are used to mark the beginning and ending of a group of entities, such as parentheses, brackets, and braces.
Paired delimiters might include:
- < and > angle brackets
- ( and ) parentheses
- { and } braces
- [ and ] square brackets
- " " double quotes
- ' ' single quotes
Modes of Introduction
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Applicable Platforms
| Type | Class | Name | Prevalence |
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| Language | Not Language-Specific |
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
The Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC™) effort provides a publicly available catalog of common attack patterns that helps users understand how adversaries exploit weaknesses in applications and other cyber-enabled capabilities.
CAPEC at Mitre.org
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