CWE-228 詳細

CWE-228

Improper Handling of Syntactically Invalid Structure
2006-07-19
00h00 +00:00
Incomplete
2026-10-28
00h00 +00:00
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名前: Improper Handling of Syntactically Invalid Structure

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles input that is not syntactically well-formed with respect to the associated specification.

一般情報

導入モード

Implementation

適用可能なプラットフォーム

言語

クラス: Not Language-Specific (Undetermined)

一般的な結果

スコープ 影響 可能性
Integrity
Availability
Unexpected State, DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart, DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU)

注記:If an input is syntactically invalid, then processing the input could place the system in an unexpected state that could lead to a crash, consume available system resources or other unintended behaviors.

観察された例

参考文献 説明

CVE-2004-0270

Anti-virus product has an assertion error when the line length is non-numeric.

検出方法

Automated Static Analysis

Automated static analysis, commonly referred to as Static Application Security Testing (SAST), can find some instances of this weakness by analyzing source code (or binary/compiled code) without having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect "sources" (origins of input) with "sinks" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)
有効性 : High

脆弱性マッピングノート

理由 : This CWE entry is a Class and might have Base-level children that would be more appropriate
コメント : Examine children of this entry to see if there is a better fit

ノート

This entry needs more investigation. Public vulnerability research generally focuses on the manipulations that generate invalid structure, instead of the weaknesses that are exploited by those manipulations. For example, a common attack involves making a request that omits a required field, which can trigger a crash in some cases. The crash could be due to a named chain such as CWE-690 (Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference), but public reports rarely cover this aspect of a vulnerability.
The validity of input could be roughly classified along "syntactic", "semantic", and "lexical" dimensions. If the specification requires that an input value should be delimited with the "[" and "]" square brackets, then any input that does not follow this specification would be syntactically invalid. If the input between the brackets is expected to be a number, but the letters "aaa" are provided, then the input is syntactically invalid. If the input is a number and enclosed in brackets, but the number is outside of the allowable range, then it is semantically invalid. The inter-relationships between these properties - and their associated weaknesses- need further exploration.

登録情報

名前 組織 日付 リリース日 Version
PLOVER 2006-07-19 +00:00 2006-07-19 +00:00 Draft 3

変更履歴

名前 組織 日付 コメント
Eric Dalci Cigital 2008-07-01 +00:00 updated Time_of_Introduction
CWE Content Team MITRE 2008-09-08 +00:00 updated Description, Maintenance_Notes, Name, Relationships, Relevant_Properties, Taxonomy_Mappings
CWE Content Team MITRE 2009-03-10 +00:00 updated Description, Name
CWE Content Team MITRE 2011-06-01 +00:00 updated Common_Consequences
CWE Content Team MITRE 2011-06-27 +00:00 updated Common_Consequences
CWE Content Team MITRE 2012-05-11 +00:00 updated Common_Consequences, Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2014-02-18 +00:00 updated Demonstrative_Examples
CWE Content Team MITRE 2014-07-30 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2017-01-19 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2017-11-08 +00:00 updated Relevant_Properties
CWE Content Team MITRE 2020-02-24 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2021-03-15 +00:00 updated Demonstrative_Examples, Maintenance_Notes, Theoretical_Notes
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-04-27 +00:00 updated Detection_Factors, Relationships, Time_of_Introduction
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-06-29 +00:00 updated Mapping_Notes
CWE Content Team MITRE 2024-02-29 +00:00 updated Observed_Examples, Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2025-12-11 +00:00 updated Applicable_Platforms, Weakness_Ordinalities
CWE Content Team MITRE 2026-10-28 +00:00 updated Dimensions, Observed_Examples