CWE-75

Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection)
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The product does not adequately filter user-controlled input for special elements with control implications.

Status
draft
Abstraction
class

Common Consequences

integrity confidentiality availability
Impacts
modify application data execute unauthorized code or commands

Potential Mitigations

Phases:
requirements implementation
Descriptions:
• Programming languages and supporting technologies might be chosen which are not subject to these issues.
• Utilize an appropriate mix of allowlist and denylist parsing to filter special element syntax from all input.