What MITRE CAPEC-78: Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding (Detailed Attack Pattern - High Severity) requires
MITRE CAPEC-78 (Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding) is a detailed-level attack pattern in the MITRE Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification. This attack targets the use of the backslash in alternate encoding. An adversary can provide a backslash as a leading character and causes a parser to believe that the next character is special. This is called an escape. By using that trick, the adversary tries to exploit alternate ways to encode the same character which leads to filter problems and opens avenues to attack. Likelihood of attack: High. Typical severity: High. Maps to weaknesses CWE-180, CWE-181, CWE-173, CWE-172, and others.
Pillar: Cybersecurity · Authority: MITRE Corporation · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/78.html
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- MITRE CAPEC-78: Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding (https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/78.html)
- CWE-180: underlying weakness (http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/180.html)
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