CWE-182 Details

CWE-182

Collapse of Data into Unsafe Value
2006-07-19
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Draft
2026-10-28
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Name: Collapse of Data into Unsafe Value

The product filters data in a way that causes it to be reduced or "collapsed" into an unsafe value that violates an expected security property.

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Klasse: Not Language-Specific (Undetermined)

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Klasse: Not Technology-Specific (Undetermined)

Häufige Konsequenzen

Bereich Auswirkung Wahrscheinlichkeit
Access ControlBypass Protection Mechanism

Beobachtete Beispiele

Referenzen Beschreibung

CVE-2004-0815

"/.////" in pathname collapses to absolute path.

CVE-2005-3123

"/.//..//////././" is collapsed into "/.././" after ".." and "//" sequences are removed.

CVE-2002-0325

".../...//" collapsed to "..." due to removal of "./" in web server.

CVE-2002-0784

Chain: HTTP server protects against ".." but allows "." variants such as "////./../.../". If the server removes "/.." sequences, the result would collapse into an unsafe value "////../" (CWE-182).

CVE-2005-2169

Chain: ".../...//" bypasses protection mechanism using regexp's that remove "../" resulting in collapse into an unsafe value "../" (CWE-182) and resultant path traversal.

CVE-2001-1157

XSS protection mechanism strips a