CWE-1174: ASP.NET Misconfiguration: Improper Model Validation
Official CWE-1174 CWE context with Glexia analysis, remediation guidance, related CVEs, and ATT&CK context.
Glexia's Take
CWE-1174: ASP.NET Misconfiguration: Improper Model Validation
ASP.NET Misconfiguration: Improper Model Validation represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.
Executive Impact
- Integrity: Unexpected State: Unchecked input leads to cross-site scripting, process control, and SQL injection vulnerabilities, among others.
Developer Pattern
CWE-1174 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.
Confidence
high confidence from CWE-1174, 4.20.
Official CWE Definition
CWE-1174: ASP.NET Misconfiguration: Improper Model Validation
The ASP.NET application does not use, or incorrectly uses, the model validation framework.
Developer And Remediation Guidance
How teams prevent and detect this weakness
Causes
- Missing validation
- Unsafe defaults
- Insufficient authorization or memory-safety invariant
Remediation
- Use safe APIs
- Centralize the control
- Add regression tests
- Review logs and telemetry for attempted abuse
Detection
- Code review
- SAST
- DAST
- Focused regression tests
Mappings
Related CVEs, CWEs, and ATT&CK context
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ATT&CK Relevance
ATT&CK relevance is shown only when reviewed or responsibly inferred.