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CWE-346

Origin Validation Error

Class
Draft

Description

The product does not properly verify that the source of data or communication is valid.

Common Consequences

Scope

Access Control
Other

Impact

Gain Privileges or Assume Identity, Varies by Context

CVE-2000-1218

DNS server can accept DNS updates from hosts that it did not query, leading to cache poisoning

CVE-2018-6074

Browser does not set Mark-of-the-Web (MotW) for a downloaded .EXE file if the name is close to the maximum path length, preventing recording of a zone identifier in the filename

CVE-2025-0411

Zip file extraction program does not propagate Mark-of-the-Web (MotW) metadata to files that are extracted from an Internet-downloaded Zip file

CVE-2025-46652

Zip file extraction program does not propagate Mark-of-the-Web (MotW) metadata to files that are extracted from an Internet-downloaded Zip file

CVE-2005-0877

DNS server can accept DNS updates from hosts that it did not query, leading to cache poisoning

CVE-2001-1452

DNS server caches glue records received from non-delegated name servers

CVE-2005-2188

user ID obtained from untrusted source (URL)

CVE-2003-0174

LDAP service does not verify if a particular attribute was set by the LDAP server

CVE-1999-1549

product does not sufficiently distinguish external HTML from internal, potentially dangerous HTML, allowing bypass using special strings in the page title. Overlaps special elements.

CVE-2003-0981

product records the reverse DNS name of a visitor in the logs, allowing spoofing and resultant XSS.

Applicable Platforms

Not Language-Specific

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