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CWE-796 Only Filtering Special Elements Relative to a Marker

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Abstraction
Variant
Structure
Simple
Status
Incomplete
Languages
Not Language-Specific
CWE version
5.0

Description

The product receives data from an upstream component, but only accounts for special elements positioned relative to a marker (e.g. "at the beginning/end of a string; the second argument"), thereby missing remaining special elements that may exist before sending it to a downstream component.

Common consequences

• Integrity: Unexpected State

Related

Child of · CWE (1)

  • CWE-795 Only Filtering Special Elements at a Specified Location weakness