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CWE-228Improper Handling of Syntactically Invalid Structure

Category: other

Description

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles input that is not syntactically well-formed with respect to the associated specification.

Common consequences· 1

  • Integrity / Availability — Unexpected State, DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart, DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU)
    If an input is syntactically invalid, then processing the input could place the system in an unexpected state that could lead to a crash, consume available system resources or other unintended behaviors.

References

  1. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/228.html

Related by meaning· 6

Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.

CWE
Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input
CWE
Failure to Handle Incomplete Element
CWE
Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input
CWE
Improper Handling of Missing Special Element
CWE
Improper Handling of Invalid Use of Special Elements
CWE
Improper Handling of Additional Special Element
Sourced from MITRE CWE 4.20. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.