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CWE-790: Improper Filtering of Special Elements

Class Incomplete

The product receives data from an upstream component, but it does not filter or incorrectly filters special elements before sending it to a downstream component.

Source: MITRE CWE-790

15 results · Feed

  • High 7.5

    Potential wildcard CNAME RPZ policy bypass

    An attacker who knows (or guesses) that a resolver uses RPZ with wildcard CNAME policies can craft query names long enough to trigger a NAMETOOLONG error condition during RPZ processing. This is not handled correctly and may lead to defeating the RPZ rule. It…

  • High 7.3

    Plack::Middleware::Security::Common versions before 0.13.1 for Perl did not block header injections in request paths

    Plack::Middleware::Security::Common versions before 0.13.1 for Perl did not block header injections in request paths. The header injection rule was ineffective at blocking header injections in the request paths unless they were double-encoded, for example, GE…

  • High 7.5

    Backend Access Due to Insufficient Input Validation

    An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit insufficient input validation to access backend components beyond their intended scope via path traversal, resulting in exposure of sensitive information.

  • High 7.2

    Ericsson Indoor Connect 8855 - Improper Filtering of Special Elements Vulnerability

    Ericsson Indoor Connect 8855 versions prior to 2025.Q3 contains an Improper Filtering of Special Elements vulnerability which, if exploited, can lead to unauthorized modification of certain information

  • High 7.5

    Jail chroot escape via fd exchange with a different jail

    If two sibling jails are restricted to separate filesystem trees, which is to say that neither of the two jail root directories is an ancestor of the other, jailed processes may nonetheless be able to access a shared directory via a nullfs mount, if the admin…

  • Medium 5.8

    Enterprise Protection Backslash URL Rewrite Bypass

    Enterprise Protection contains a vulnerability in URL rewriting that allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to send an email which bypasses URL protections impacting the integrity of recipient's email. This occurs due to improper filtering of backslashes w…

  • Medium 4.4

    Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines 6.0.x contains Denial of Service vulnerability. A User with Remote access could …

  • High 8.4

    Multiple issues in ctl(4) CAM Target Layer

    The ctl_report_supported_opcodes function did not sufficiently validate a field provided by userspace, allowing an arbitrary write to a limited amount of kernel help memory. Malicious software running in a guest VM that exposes virtio_scsi can exploit the vul…

  • Medium 4.9

    Stored XSS in process management

    Improper Neutralization of Input done by an attacker with admin privileges ('Cross-site Scripting') in Process Management modules of OTRS and ((OTRS)) Community Edition allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) within the Process Management targeting other admins. Th…

  • Medium 4.9

    Stored XSS in System Configuration

    Improper Neutralization of Input done by an attacker with admin privileges ('Cross-site Scripting') in  OTRS (System Configuration modules) and ((OTRS)) Community Edition allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) within the System Configuration targeting other admins…

  • Medium 5.7

    Information exlosure in external interface

    Improper filtering of fields when using the export function in the ticket overview of the external interface in OTRS could allow an authorized user to download a list of tickets containing information about tickets of other customers. The problem only occurs …

  • High 8.8

    An issue discovered in RG-RSR10-01G-T(W)-S and RG-RSR10-01G-T(WA)-S routers with firmware version RSR10-01G-T-S_RSR_3.0…

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2023-45239 Public exploit

    A lack of input validation exists in tac_plus prior to commit 4fdf178 which, when pre or post auth commands are enabled…

  • Critical 10.0

    Sequalize - Default support for “raw attributes” when using parentheses

    Due to improper artibute filtering in the sequalize js library, can a attacker peform SQL injections.

  • Critical 9.9

    Admin privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution via malicious *.etherpad imports

    Etherpad is a real-time collaborative editor. In versions prior to 1.8.16, an attacker can craft an `*.etherpad` file that, when imported, might allow the attacker to gain admin privileges for the Etherpad instance. This, in turn, can be used to install a mal…