CWE-1289 Detail

CWE-1289

Name

Improper Validation of Unsafe Equivalence in Input

Status

Incomplete

Published

2020-02-24
00h00 +00:00

Modified

2023-06-29
00h00 +00:00

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Name: Improper Validation of Unsafe Equivalence in Input

The product receives an input value that is used as a resource identifier or other type of reference, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input is equivalent to a potentially-unsafe value.

CWE Description

Attackers can sometimes bypass input validation schemes by finding inputs that appear to be safe, but will be dangerous when processed at a lower layer or by a downstream component. For example, a simple XSS protection mechanism might try to validate that an input has no "