CWE-74: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component (Injection), page 60
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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.
What the weakness is: CWE-74 at MITRE
Related attack patterns (CAPEC): 37
- CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters Likelihood: Medium · Severity: Medium
- CAPEC-6 Argument Injection Likelihood: High · Severity: High
- CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection Likelihood: High · Severity: High
- CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call Likelihood: High · Severity: High
- CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities Likelihood: High · Severity: High
- CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables Likelihood: High · Severity: High
- CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values Likelihood: High · Severity: Very High
- CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow Likelihood: Medium · Severity: High
- CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow Likelihood: High · Severity: High
- CAPEC-28 Fuzzing Likelihood: High · Severity: Medium
- CAPEC-34 HTTP Response Splitting Likelihood: Medium · Severity: High
- CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion Likelihood: High · Severity: High
- CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers Likelihood: Medium · Severity: High
- CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links Likelihood: High · Severity: High
- CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags Likelihood: High · Severity: High
- CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion Likelihood: Medium · Severity: High
- CAPEC-51 Poison Web Service Registry Likelihood: High · Severity: Very High
- CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes Likelihood: High · Severity: High
- CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash Likelihood: High · Severity: High
- CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic Likelihood: High · Severity: High
- CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog() Likelihood: High · Severity: Very High
- CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic Likelihood: Medium · Severity: High
- CAPEC-72 URL Encoding Likelihood: High · Severity: High
- CAPEC-76 Manipulating Web Input to File System Calls Likelihood: High · Severity: Very High
- CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding Likelihood: High · Severity: High
- CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding Likelihood: High · Severity: High
- CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic Likelihood: High · Severity: High
- CAPEC-83 XPath Injection Likelihood: High · Severity: High
- CAPEC-84 XQuery Injection Likelihood: High · Severity: Very High
- CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection Likelihood: High · Severity: High
- CAPEC-105 HTTP Request Splitting Likelihood: Medium · Severity: High
- CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection Likelihood: Low · Severity: Very High
- CAPEC-120 Double Encoding Likelihood: Low · Severity: Medium
- CAPEC-135 Format String Injection Likelihood: High · Severity: High
- CAPEC-250 XML Injection Likelihood: High
- CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding Likelihood: High · Severity: High
- CAPEC-273 HTTP Response Smuggling Likelihood: Medium · Severity: High
The attack patterns MITRE's CAPEC relates to CWE-74, as MITRE names them. Credits.
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