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CWE-626Null Byte Interaction Error (Poison Null Byte)

Category: other

Description

The product does not properly handle null bytes or NUL characters when passing data between different representations or components.

Common consequences· 1

  • Integrity — Unexpected State

Potential mitigations· 1

  • [Implementation]Remove null bytes from all incoming strings.

References

  1. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/626.html

(incoming)2

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-42010cve-2026-420100%live
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-42579cve-2026-425790%live

Related by meaning· 6

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

CWE
Improper Neutralization of Null Byte or NUL Character
CWE
NULL Pointer Dereference
CWE
Improper Null Termination
CWE
Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference
CWE
Deserialization of Untrusted Data
CWE
Encoding Error
Sourced from MITRE CWE 4.20. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.