CWE-1286 Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input

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The product receives input that is expected to be well-formed - i.e., to comply with a certain syntax - but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input complies with the syntax.

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child weaknesses

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vulnerabilities (116)

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IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2026-25513UShigh8.8Exploit
FacturaScripts is open-source enterprise resource planning and accounting software. Prior to version 2025.81, FacturaScripts contains a critical SQL injection vulnerability in the…
CVE-2026-88009UShigh8.2Exploit
Traefik is an open source HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to 2.11.57, and 3.7.13, Traefik accepts a rootless HTTP/1 request target that Go stores in URL.Opaque while le…
CVE-2024-7954US—Exploit
The porte_plume plugin used by SPIP before 4.30-alpha2, 4.2.13, and 4.1.16 is vulnerable to an arbitrary code execution vulnerability. A remote and unauthenticated attacker can exe…
CVE-2026-42579UScritical9.1—
Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final, Netty's DNS codec does not enforce RFC 1035 domain name constraints d…
CVE-2026-34835USmedium6.5Exploit
Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. From versions 3.0.0.beta1 to before 3.1.21, and 3.2.0 to before 3.2.6, Rack::Request parses the Host header using an AUTHORITY regular…
CVE-2021-28812UShigh8.8—
A command injection vulnerability has been reported to affect certain versions of Video Station. If exploited, this vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary comma…
CVE-2020-13254USmedium5.9Exploit
An issue was discovered in Django 2.2 before 2.2.13 and 3.0 before 3.0.7. In cases where a memcached backend does not perform key validation, passing malformed cache keys could res…
CVE-2026-83728UShigh8.8—
Improper validation of syntactic correctness of input in Windows Hyper-V allows an authorized attacker to perform spoofing locally.
CVE-2021-31988UShigh8.8—
A user controlled parameter related to SMTP test functionality is not correctly validated making it possible to add the Carriage Return and Line Feed (CRLF) control characters and…
CVE-2026-102084UShigh8.1—
An Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input vulnerability in the VPN daemon of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series allows an authenticated, network-based attacker…
CVE-2023-26049USmedium5.3Exploit
Jetty is a java based web server and servlet engine. Nonstandard cookie parsing in Jetty may allow an attacker to smuggle cookies within other cookies, or otherwise perform uninten…
CVE-2022-1941UShigh7.5—
A parsing vulnerability for the MessageSet type in the ProtocolBuffers versions prior to and including 3.16.1, 3.17.3, 3.18.2, 3.19.4, 3.20.1 and 3.21.5 for protobuf-cpp, and versi…
CVE-2026-48059UShigh7.5—
Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. Prior to versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final, the HAProxy PROXY protocol v2 codec in n…
CVE-2026-6918UShigh7.5—
In Eclipse Open9J versions 0.21 to 0.58, a pre-authentication remote attacker can crash JITServer by sending a 32-byte crafted TCP message.
CVE-2025-55085UShigh7.5—
In NextX Duo before 6.4.4, in the HTTP client module, the network support code for Eclipse Foundation ThreadX, the parsing of HTTP header fields was missing bounds verification. A…
CVE-2025-10954UShigh7.5—
Versions of the package github.com/nyaruka/phonenumbers before 1.2.2 are vulnerable to Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input in the phonenumbers.Parse() function. A…
CVE-2024-3384UShigh7.5—
A vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables a remote attacker to reboot PAN-OS firewalls when receiving Windows New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) packets from Win…
CVE-2024-21616UShigh7.5—
An Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input vulnerability in Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an unauthenticated, network-based atta…
CVE-2024-21595UShigh7.5—
An Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows a network-based, unauthenticated a…
CVE-2023-32649UShigh7.5—
A Denial of Service (Dos) vulnerability in Nozomi Networks Guardian and CMC, due to improper input validation in certain fields used in the Asset Intelligence functionality of our…
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