Description
The software properly neutralizes certain special elements, but it improperly neutralizes equivalent special elements.
The software may have a fixed list of special characters it believes is complete. However, there may be alternate encodings, or representations that also have the same meaning. For example, the software may filter out a leading slash (/) to prevent absolute path names, but does not account for a tilde (~) followed by a user name, which on some *nix systems could be expanded to an absolute pathname. Alternately, the software might filter a dangerous “-e” command-line switch when calling an external program, but it might not account for “–exec” or other switches that have the same semantics.
Modes of Introduction:
– Architecture and Design
Likelihood of Exploit: High
Related Weaknesses
CWE-75
Consequences
Other: Other
Potential Mitigations
Phase: Requirements
Effectiveness:
Description:
Programming languages and supporting technologies might be chosen which are not subject to these issues.
Phase: Implementation
Effectiveness:
Description:
Utilize an appropriate mix of allowlist and denylist parsing to filter equivalent special element syntax from all input.
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