Weakness · Medium
CWE-554: ASP.NET Misconfiguration: Not Using Input Validation Framework
What it is
The ASP.NET application does not use an input validation framework.
- Severity (our rating)
- Medium
- Likelihood of exploit
- Not rated by MITRE
- Introduced during
- Architecture and Design, Implementation
- Exploited in the wild
- No CVE in CISA's catalog
What an attacker can do
- Unexpected State (Integrity)
How to prevent it
Architecture and Design
- Use the ASP.NET validation framework to check all program input before it is processed by the application. Example uses of the validation framework include checking to ensure that: Phone number fields contain only valid characters in phone numbers Boolean values are only "T" or "F" Free-form strings are of a reasonable length and composition
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