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CWE-159 · weakness in Injection and Smuggling

Improper Handling of Invalid Use of Special Elements

12 CVEs

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  1. Special characters break path parsing in XML functionsCVE-2021-21707PHP Group · CVSS 5.3 · 25% likely

    PHP

  2. PrinterLogic Print Management Software does not sanitize special charactersCVE-2019-9505PrinterLogic · 3.5% likely
  3. Junos OS: Kernel crash (vmcore) or FPC crash due to mbuf leakCVE-2020-1653Juniper Networks · CVSS 7.5 · 1.6% likely

    Juniper Networks

  4. Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: RPD crash when processing a specific BGP packetCVE-2020-1648Juniper Networks · CVSS 7.5 · 1.3% likely

    Juniper Networks

  5. Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: RPD crash while processing a specific BGP update information.CVE-2020-1646Juniper Networks · CVSS 7.5 · 1.0% likely

    Juniper Networks

  6. Host Header Injection allowing web cache poisoning attacksCVE-2020-29022Secomea · CVSS 5.3 · 0.8% likely

    Secomea

  7. Denial of Service in Microsoft OSCVE-2026-2636Microsoft · CVSS 5.5 · 0.5% likely

    Microsoft

  8. ssh in OpenSSH before 10.1 allows control characters in usernames that originate from certain possibly untrusted sources, potentially leading to code execution when a ProxyCommand…CVE-2025-61984OpenBSD · CVSS 3.6 · 0.5% likely

    OpenBSD

  9. Failure to check for packets from the broadcast address allows potential DDoS amplification attack in Meshtastic firmwareCVE-2024-51500meshtastic · CVSS 5.3 · 0.4% likely

    Meshtastic

  10. risc0-ethereum-contracts allows invalid commitment with digest value of zero to be accepted by Steel.validateCommitmentCVE-2025-52884risc0 · CVSS 1.7 · 0.4% likely
  11. An incorrect handling of a special element in Busybox's ash applet leads to denial of service when processing a crafted shell command, due to the shell mistaking specific characte…CVE-2021-42375busybox · CVSS 5.5 · 0.4% likely

    BusyBox

  12. In Tornado before 6.5.5, cookie attribute injection could occur because the domain, path, and samesite arguments to .RequestHandler.set_cookie were not checked for crafted charact…CVE-2026-35536tornadoweb · CVSS 7.2 · 0.2% likely

    Tornadoweb

exploited in the wildcheck availableringed, named or not: CyberSIXT has reported on it

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Data as of 2026-11-14. CVE List through 2026-11-14 · EPSS of 2026-11-13 · CISA KEV checked 2026-11-14. Sources: the CVE List, CISA KEV, EPSS, NVD, nuclei templates and public bug bounty data.

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