CWE-180
Incorrect Behavior Order: Validate Before Canonicalize
Description
The product validates input before it is canonicalized, which prevents the product from detecting data that becomes invalid after the canonicalization step.
This can be used by an attacker to bypass the validation and launch attacks that expose weaknesses that would otherwise be prevented, such as injection.
Parent Weaknesses (ChildOf)
Common Consequences
Scope
Impact
Bypass Protection Mechanism
Potential Mitigations
Inputs should be decoded and canonicalized to the application's current internal representation before being validated (CWE-180). Make sure that the application does not decode the same input twice (CWE-174). Such errors could be used to bypass allowlist validation schemes by introducing dangerous inputs after they have been checked.
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