CWE-796

Only Filtering Special Elements Relative to a Marker

Medium

Description

The product receives data from an upstream component, but only accounts for special elements positioned relative to a marker (e.g. "at the beginning/end of a string; the second argument"), thereby missing remaining special elements that may exist before sending it to a downstream component.

Potential Impact

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