CWE-178: Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity
CWE版本: 4.18
更新日期: 2025-09-09
弱点描述
The product does not properly account for differences in case sensitivity when accessing or determining the properties of a resource, leading to inconsistent results.
常见后果
影响范围: Access Control
技术影响: Bypass Protection Mechanism
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: 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.
观察示例
参考: CVE-2000-0499
Application server allows attackers to bypass execution of a jsp page and read the source code using an upper case JSP extension in the request.
参考: CVE-2000-0497
The server is case sensitive, so filetype handlers treat .jsp and .JSP as different extensions. JSP source code may be read because .JSP defaults to the filetype "text".
参考: CVE-2000-0498
The server is case sensitive, so filetype handlers treat .jsp and .JSP as different extensions. JSP source code may be read because .JSP defaults to the filetype "text".
参考: CVE-2001-0766
A URL that contains some characters whose case is not matched by the server's filters may bypass access restrictions because the case-insensitive file system will then handle the request after it bypasses the case sensitive filter.
参考: CVE-2001-0795
Server allows remote attackers to obtain source code of CGI scripts via URLs that contain MS-DOS conventions such as (1) upper case letters or (2) 8.3 file names.
参考: CVE-2001-1238
Task Manager does not allow local users to end processes with uppercase letters named (1) winlogon.exe, (2) csrss.exe, (3) smss.exe and (4) services.exe via the Process tab which could allow local users to install Trojan horses that cannot be stopped.
参考: CVE-2003-0411
chain: Code was ported from a case-sensitive Unix platform to a case-insensitive Windows platform where filetype handlers treat .jsp and .JSP as different extensions. JSP source code may be read because .JSP defaults to the filetype "text".
参考: CVE-2002-0485
Leads to interpretation error
参考: CVE-1999-0239
Directories may be listed because lower case web requests are not properly handled by the server.
参考: CVE-2005-0269
File extension check in forum software only verifies extensions that contain all lowercase letters, which allows remote attackers to upload arbitrary files via file extensions that include uppercase letters.
参考: CVE-2004-1083
Web server restricts access to files in a case sensitive manner, but the filesystem accesses files in a case insensitive manner, which allows remote attackers to read privileged files using alternate capitalization.
参考: CVE-2002-2119
Case insensitive passwords lead to search space reduction.
参考: CVE-2004-2214
HTTP server allows bypass of access restrictions using URIs with mixed case.
参考: CVE-2004-2154
Mixed upper/lowercase allows bypass of ACLs.
参考: CVE-2005-4509
Bypass malicious script detection by using tokens that aren't case sensitive.
参考: CVE-2002-1820
Mixed case problem allows "admin" to have "Admin" rights (alternate name property).
参考: CVE-2007-3365
Chain: uppercase file extensions causes web server to return script source code instead of executing the script.
参考: CVE-2021-39155
Chain: A microservice integration and management platform compares the hostname in the HTTP Host header in a case-sensitive way (CWE-178, CWE-1289), allowing bypass of the authorization policy (CWE-863) using a hostname with mixed case or other variations.
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 | - | Case Sensitivity (lowercase, uppercase, mixed case) | - |