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CWE-46Path Equivalence: 'filename ' (Trailing Space)

Category: other

Description

The product accepts path input in the form of trailing space ('filedir ') without appropriate validation, which can lead to ambiguous path resolution and allow an attacker to traverse the file system to unintended locations or access arbitrary files.

Common consequences· 1

  • Confidentiality / Integrity — Read Files or Directories, Modify Files or Directories

Related CAPEC attack patterns· 1

CAPEC-649

References

  1. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/46.html

Exploits (incoming)1

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
AttackPatternAdding a Space to a File Extensioncapec-649100%live

Related by meaning· 6

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

CWE
Path Equivalence: ' filename' (Leading Space)
CWE
Path Equivalence: 'file name' (Internal Whitespace)
CWE
Path Equivalence: 'filename/' (Trailing Slash)
CWE
Path Equivalence: 'filedir\' (Trailing Backslash)
CWE
Path Equivalence: 'filename....' (Multiple Trailing Dot)
CWE
Path Equivalence: 'filename.' (Trailing Dot)
Sourced from MITRE CWE 4.20. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.