CWE-168 Improper Handling of Inconsistent Special Elements
baseThe product does not properly handle input in which an inconsistency exists between two or more special characters or reserved words.
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| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
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| CVE-2023-6245US | high7.5 | — | ||
The Candid library causes a Denial of Service while
parsing a specially crafted payload with 'empty' data type. For example,
if the payload is `record { * ; empty }` and the cani… | ||||
| CVE-2023-36843US | high7.5 | — | ||
An Improper Handling of Inconsistent Special Elements vulnerability in the Junos Services Framework (jsf) module of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an unauthenticated network bas… | ||||
| CVE-2019-25620US | medium5.5 | — | ||
Tree Studio 2.17 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by providing malformed input through the keyboard interface. Attack… | ||||
| CVE-2025-71183US | medium5.5 | — | ||
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: always detect conflicting inodes when logging inode refs
After rename exchanging (either with the renam… | ||||
| CVE-2026-8389US | — | Exploit | ||
JIT miscompilation in the JavaScript Engine: JIT component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 150.0.3. | ||||
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