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CWE-75: Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection)

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Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection)
Status: Draft
Weakness ID: 75 (Weakness Class)
Description
Summary

The software fails to adequately filter user-controlled input for special elements with control implications.

Potential Mitigations

Requirements specification: Programming languages and supporting technologies might be chosen which are not subject to these issues.

Implementation

Utilize an appropriate mix of white-list and black-list parsing to filter special element syntax from all input.

Relationships
NatureTypeIDNameView(s) this relationship pertains toView(s)
ChildOfWeakness ClassWeakness ClassWeakness Class74Failure to Sanitize Data into a Different Plane (aka 'Injection')
Development Concepts (primary)699
Research Concepts (primary)1000
ParentOfWeakness BaseWeakness BaseWeakness Base76Failure to Resolve Equivalent Special Elements into a Different Plane
Development Concepts (primary)699
Research Concepts (primary)1000
Taxonomy Mappings
Mapped Taxonomy NameMapped Node Name
PLOVERSpecial Element Injection
Applicable Platforms
Languages
All
Time of Introduction
* Architecture and Design
* Implementation
Content History
Submissions
PLOVER. (Externally Mined)
Modifications
Eric Dalci. Cigital. 2008-07-01. (External)
updated Time_of_Introduction
CWE Content Team. MITRE. 2008-09-08. (Internal)
updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
Previous Entry Names
* Special Element Injection (changed 2008-04-11)
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