CWE•Base•Draft•6 recent CVEs
CWE-349Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data
Description
The product, when processing trusted data, accepts any untrusted data that is also included with the trusted data, treating the untrusted data as if it were trusted.
Common consequences
- Access Control,Integrity→Bypass Protection Mechanism,Modify Application DataAn attacker could package untrusted data with trusted data to bypass protection mechanisms to gain access to and possibly modify sensitive data.