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Home/CWEs/CWE-184
Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-184: Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs

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The product implements a protection mechanism that relies on a list of inputs (or properties of inputs) that are not allowed by policy or otherwise require other action to neutralize before additional processing takes place, but the list is incomplete.

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▪ How attackers exploit CWE-184

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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Step-by-step: how CWE-184 gets exploited

A stage-by-stage walkthrough of the attack, mapped to the real MITRE ATT&CK tactics for this weakness — what the attacker is trying to do, what's at risk (what can be stolen or damaged), and how you defend. Understanding the playbook is how you shut it down.

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    Discoverydiscovery

    Map what else is reachable — hosts, services, data stores, and accounts.

    At risk / what's stolen

    Internal topology, service inventory, and data locations the attacker enumerates.

    How you defend

    Network segmentation and detection of unusual internal scanning.

This is a defensive, conceptual walkthrough for education — stages reflect MITRE ATT&CK tactics associated with this weakness class, not a working exploit. Not every attack uses every stage.

▪ Related CVEs

No CVEs in the Gold index currently reference CWE-184. New matches appear here as the crawler indexes them.