Weakness · High
CWE-75: Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection)
What it is
The product does not adequately filter user-controlled input for special elements with control implications.
- Severity (our rating)
- High
- Likelihood of exploit
- Not rated by MITRE
- Introduced during
- Implementation
- Exploited in the wild
- No CVE in CISA's catalog
What an attacker can do
- Modify Application Data (Integrity, Confidentiality, Availability)
- Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands (Integrity, Confidentiality, Availability)
How to prevent it
Requirements
- Programming languages and supporting technologies might be chosen which are not subject to these issues.
Implementation
- Utilize an appropriate mix of allowlist and denylist parsing to filter special element syntax from all input.
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