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Improper Handling of Inconsistent Special Elements

CWE-168 · Base · Draft

The product does not properly handle input in which an inconsistency exists between two or more special characters or reserved words.

Extended description

An example of this problem would be if paired characters appear in the wrong order, or if the special characters are not properly nested.

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Weakness Relationships

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Parent of this (broader)
ChildOfCWE-159 · Improper Handling of Invalid Use of Special Elements
ChildOfCWE-228 · Improper Handling of Syntactically Invalid Structure
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CVEs With This Weakness

4
CVEs tagged with this weakness.
CVECVE-2023-6245
CVECVE-2023-36843
CVECVE-2023-36843
CVECVE-2019-25620
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