CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

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The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

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vulnerabilities (25108)

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CVE-2026-88771UScritical9.8OT criticalKEV
Improper input validation vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Citrix NetScaler Gateway. This issue affects ADC: before 14.1-73.37, before 13.1-64.23, before 14.1-73.37 FIPS,…
CVE-2026-93952US—OT criticalKEV
VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) on-prem has a security issue where this issue may allow a remote attacker to access privileged internal functionality and impact the VCO host. Successf…
CVE-2026-12569UScritical9.8OT criticalKEV
A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability has been reported in PTC Windchill PDMlink and PTC FlexPLM. The vulnerability may be exploited through the deserialization of u…
CVE-2026-34910US—OT criticalKEV
A malicious actor with access to the network could exploit an Improper Input Validation vulnerability found in UniFi OS devices to execute a Command Injection.
CVE-2026-6973US—OT criticalKEV
An Improper Input Validation in Ivanti EPMM before versions 12.6.1.1, 12.7.0.1, and 12.8.0.1 allows a remotely authenticated user with administrative access to achieve remote code…
CVE-2026-32201USmedium6.5OT criticalKEV
Improper input validation in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows an unauthorized attacker to perform spoofing over a network.
CVE-2026-34197US—OT criticalKEV
Improper Input Validation, Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ Broker, Apache ActiveMQ. Apache ActiveMQ Classic exposes the…
CVE-2025-20393US—OT criticalKEV
A vulnerability in the Spam Quarantine feature of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager could allow an unauthenticated, remot…
CVE-2025-39964USmedium5.5OT criticalKEV
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: af_alg - Disallow concurrent writes in af_alg_sendmsg Issuing two writes to the same af_alg socket is…
CVE-2025-54236US—OT criticalKEV
Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.9-alpha2, 2.4.8-p2, 2.4.7-p7, 2.4.6-p12, 2.4.5-p14, 2.4.4-p15 and earlier are affected by an Improper Input Validation vulnerability. A successful attac…
CVE-2025-39682UScritical9.8OT criticalKEV
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tls: fix handling of zero-length records on the rx_list Each recvmsg() call must process either - only contig…
CVE-2025-8876UShigh8.8OT criticalKEV
Improper Input Validation vulnerability in N-able N-central allows OS Command Injection.This issue affects N-central: before 2025.3.1.
CVE-2025-6558US—OT criticalKEV
Insufficient validation of untrusted input in ANGLE and GPU in Google Chrome prior to 138.0.7204.157 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted…
CVE-2025-43200US—OT criticalKEV
This issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 15.8.4 and iPadOS 15.8.4, iOS 16.7.11 and iPadOS 16.7.11, iOS 18.3.1 and iPadOS 18.3.1, iPadOS 17.7.5, mac…
CVE-2025-32706US—OT criticalKEV
Improper input validation in Windows Common Log File System Driver allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
CVE-2025-3928UShigh8.8OT criticalKEV
Commvault Web Server has an unspecified vulnerability that can be exploited by a remote, authenticated attacker. According to the Commvault advisory: "Webservers can be compromised…
CVE-2025-2783US—OT criticalKEV
Incorrect handle provided in unspecified circumstances in Mojo in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 134.0.6998.177 allowed a remote attacker to perform a sandbox escape via a malic…
CVE-2024-53197US—OT criticalKEV
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential out-of-bound accesses for Extigy and Mbox devices A bogus device can provide a…
CVE-2024-53104UShigh7.8OT criticalKEV
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: uvcvideo: Skip parsing frames of type UVC_VS_UNDEFINED in uvc_parse_format This can lead to out of boun…
CVE-2024-44309USmedium6.3OT criticalKEV
A cookie management issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in Safari 18.1.1, iOS 17.7.2 and iPadOS 17.7.2, iOS 18.1.1 and iPadOS 18.1.1, macOS Sequ…
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