CWE-75: Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a… | Glexia
CWE-75 (Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection)) weakness overview with consequences, detection methods,…
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CWE-75: Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection)
Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection) represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.
Executive Impact
- Integrity Confidentiality Availability: Modify Application Data Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands
Developer Pattern
CWE-75 is the kind of defect developers can usually prevent with explicit validation, safer framework defaults, and tests that exercise hostile input or unsafe state transitions.
Automation confidence
high confidence from CWE-75, 4.20.
Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.
Official CWE Definition
CWE-75: Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection)
The product does not adequately filter user-controlled input for special elements with control implications.
Developer And Remediation Guidance
How teams prevent and detect this weakness
Causes
- Missing validation
- Unsafe defaults
- Insufficient authorization or memory-safety invariant
Remediation
- Requirements: Programming languages and supporting technologies might be chosen which are not subject to these issues.
- Implementation: Utilize an appropriate mix of allowlist and denylist parsing to filter special element syntax from all input.
Detection
- Code review
- SAST
- DAST
- Focused regression tests
Mappings
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ATT&CK Relevance
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