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CWE-797 Only Filtering Special Elements at an Absolute Position

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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 at an absolute position (e.g. "byte number 10"), 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

Referenced by CVE · weakness (1)

  • CVE-2026-59107 A security vulnerability has been identified in the vSolution Matrix file sharing feature. vulnerability