CWE-157 - Failure to Sanitize Paired Delimiters
- Abstraction:Variant
- Structure:Simple
- Status:Draft
- Release Date:2006-07-19
- Latest Modification Date:2023-06-29
Weakness Name
Failure to Sanitize Paired Delimiters
Description
The product does not properly handle the characters that are used to mark the beginning and ending of a group of entities, such as parentheses, brackets, and braces.
Paired delimiters might include:
Common Consequences
Scope: Integrity
Impact: Unexpected State
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