CWE-625

Permissive Regular Expression

High

Description

The product uses a regular expression that does not sufficiently restrict the set of allowed values.

Potential Impact

Access Control: Bypass Protection Mechanism

How to Fix

Implementation

When applicable, ensure that the regular expression marks beginning and ending string patterns, such as "/^string$/" for Perl.

Detection Methods

Automated Static Analysis: Automated static analysis, commonly referred to as Static Application Security Testing (SAST), can find some instances of this weakness by analyzing source code (or binary/compiled code) without havin...

Related Weaknesses

References

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