CWE-157: Failure to Sanitize Paired Delimiters

Description

The product does not properly handle the characters that are used to mark the beginning and ending of a group of entities, such as parentheses, brackets, and braces.

Submission Date :

July 19, 2006, midnight

Modification Date :

2023-06-29 00:00:00+00:00

Organization :

MITRE
Extended Description

Paired delimiters might include:

  • < and > angle brackets
  • ( and ) parentheses
  • { and } braces
  • [ and ] square brackets
  • " " double quotes
  • ' ' single quotes

Related Weaknesses

This table shows the weaknesses and high level categories that are related to this weakness. These relationships are defined to give an overview of the different insight to similar items that may exist at higher and lower levels of abstraction.

Visit http://cwe.mitre.org/ for more details.