CWE-184

• CWE ID
• 184

• CWE Name
• Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs

• CWE Abstraction
• Base

• CWE structure
• Simple

• CWE Status
• Draft

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, le

Developers often try to protect their products against malicious input by performing tests against inputs that are known to be bad, such as special characters that can invoke new commands. However, such lists often only account for the most well-known ba