CWE-153: Improper Neutralization of Substitution Characters
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The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could be interpreted as substitution characters when they are sent to a downstream component.
What the weakness is: CWE-153 at MITRE. All weaknesses
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Explain CWE-153: Improper Neutralization of Substitution Characters and how to prevent and detect it in code. Use https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/153.html and https://cve.bz/cve/cwe/153?via=ask-ai-copy for recent CVEs with this weakness. Cite the sources.Opens a third-party assistant; its answer is its own, not cve.bz's. The prompt holds only this weakness's id and public links.
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