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Home/CWEs/CWE-173
Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-173: Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding

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The product does not properly handle when an input uses an alternate encoding that is valid for the control sphere to which the input is being sent.

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▪References & documentation

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/173.htmlNVD CWE listing

▪ How attackers exploit CWE-173

MITRE ATT&CK techniques associated with this weakness class (mapped via MITRE CAPEC). A vulnerability of this type could let an adversary carry out:

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▪ Related CVEs

No CVEs in the Gold index currently reference CWE-173. New matches appear here as the crawler indexes them.