CWE-175: Improper Handling of Mixed Encoding
CWE版本: 4.18
更新日期: 2025-09-09
弱点描述
The product does not properly handle when the same input uses several different (mixed) encodings.
常见后果
影响范围: Integrity
技术影响: Unexpected State
潜在缓解措施
阶段: Architecture and Design
策略: Input Validation
描述: Avoid making decisions based on names of resources (e.g. files) if those resources can have alternate names.
阶段: Implementation
策略: Input Validation
阶段: Implementation
策略: Output Encoding
描述: Use and specify an output encoding that can be handled by the downstream component that is reading the output. Common encodings include ISO-8859-1, UTF-7, and UTF-8. When an encoding is not specified, a downstream component may choose a different encoding, either by assuming a default encoding or automatically inferring which encoding is being used, which can be erroneous. When the encodings are inconsistent, the downstream component might treat some character or byte sequences as special, even if they are not special in the original encoding. Attackers might then be able to exploit this discrepancy and conduct injection attacks; they even might be able to bypass protection mechanisms that assume the original encoding is also being used by the downstream component.
阶段: Implementation
策略: Input Validation
描述: Inputs should be decoded and canonicalized to the application's current internal representation before being validated (CWE-180). Make sure that the application does not decode the same input twice (CWE-174). Such errors could be used to bypass allowlist validation schemes by introducing dangerous inputs after they have been checked.
引入模式
| 阶段 | 说明 |
|---|---|
| Implementation | - |
适用平台
编程语言
分类映射
| 分类名称 | 条目ID | 条目名称 | 映射适配度 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLOVER | - | Mixed Encoding | - |