CWE-173— Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding
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.— MITRE CWE catalog
3 active CVEs classified under this weakness category. Sourced from NVD, GHSA, and vendor advisories. Full definition on MITRE →
CVEs classified under CWE-173page 1 of 1
- CVE-2023-26302LOWCVSS 3.3EG 3.32023-02-22
Denial of service could be caused to the command line interface of markdown-it-py, before v2.2.0, if an attacker was allowed to use invalid UTF-8 characters as input.
- CVE-2023-26303LOWCVSS 3.3EG 3.32023-02-23
Denial of service could be caused to markdown-it-py, before v2.2.0, if an attacker was allowed to force null assertions with specially crafted input.
- CVE-2024-54158LOWCVSS 3.5EG 3.52024-12-04
In JetBrains YouTrack before 2024.3.52635 potential spoofing attack was possible via lack of Punycode encoding
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