CWE-838
Overview
- CWE ID
- 838
- CWE Name
- Inappropriate Encoding for Output Context
- CWE Abstraction
- Base
- CWE structure
- Simple
- CWE Status
- Incomplete
Description
The software uses or specifies an encoding when generating output to a downstream component, but the specified encoding is not the same as the encoding that is expected by the downstream component.