CWE-157—Failure to Sanitize Paired Delimiters

Weakness Name

Failure to Sanitize Paired Delimiters

Description

The product does not properly handle the characters that are used to mark the beginning and ending of a group of entities, such as parentheses, brackets, and braces.

Paired delimiters might include:

Common Consequences

Scope:

Integrity

Impact:

Unexpected State

Related Weaknesses

• CWE-138Improper Neutralization of Special Elements