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Home/CWEs/CWE-796
Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-796: Only Filtering Special Elements Relative to a Marker

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The product receives data from an upstream component, but only accounts for special elements positioned relative to a marker (e.g. at the beginning/end of a string; the second argument), thereby missing remaining special elements that may exist before sending it to a downstream component.

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