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CWE-228 — Improper Handling of Syntactically Invalid Structure

provenance: imported · CWE: CWE-228

CWE-228: Improper Handling of Syntactically Invalid Structure

MITRE CWE weakness

Kind Weakness
Abstraction Class
Status Incomplete
Likelihood of exploit

Description

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

Common consequences

  • Integrity, Availability: Unexpected State, DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart, DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU)

Mitigations

(none listed)

References

  • CWE page: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/228.html
  • CWE list: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/index.html