Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data

Opis

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.

Skutki

• Access Control, Integrity

  Bypass Protection Mechanism; Modify Application Data

  An attacker could package untrusted data with trusted data to bypass protection mechanisms to gain access to and possibly modify sensitive data.

Przykłady podatności

• CVE-2002-0018 Does not verify that trusted entity is authoritative for all entities in its response.
• CVE-2006-5462 use of extra data in a signature allows certificate signature forging

Słabość nadrzędna

• CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

Kiedy powstaje

• Implementation

Dotyczy

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