CWE-1286 79 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-1286: Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input

Overview

CWE-1286 (Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.

Security impact
Security impact: Depends on product and context; use CVE records, severity scores, and MITRE guidance to prioritize.

Description

The product receives input that is expected to be well-formed - i.e., to comply with a certain syntax - but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input complies with the syntax.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language Not Language-Specific Often

Related CVEs in this database

These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.

CVE Published Summary
CVE-2026-50131 2026-06-10 Fedify is a TypeScript library for building federated server apps powered by ActivityPub. Fedify previously addressed SSRF/internal network access in GHSA-p9cg-vqcc-grcx by adding public URL validatio…
CVE-2025-8873 2026-06-04 On affected platforms running Arista EOS with IPsec configured, a specially crafted packet can cause the dataplane to stop processing all IPsec traffic. The control plane may detect this condition, an…
CVE-2019-25720 2026-06-03 Dräger SC Monitoring devices (SC 6002XL, SC 6802XL, SC 7000, SC 8000, SC 9000 XL) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability in all software versions that allows unauthenticated attackers to reboot the…
CVE-2021-4479 2026-06-02 Dräger Atlan A350 versions 1.00 up to and including 1.01 contains an improper input handling vulnerability that allows attackers to cause a denial of service by sending specifically crafted non-Medibu…
CVE-2019-25723 2026-06-02 Dräger Perseus A500 software versions 2.00 through 2.02 contains an improper input handling vulnerability that allows external attackers to cause a denial of service by sending specifically crafted no…
CVE-2026-24092 2026-06-01 Memory Corruption when processing fastboot commands to set display mode.
CVE-2026-24091 2026-06-01 Memory corruption while processing fastboot commands with improperly formatted input.
CVE-2026-24089 2026-06-01 Memory corruption while processing fastboot commands with invalid input.
CVE-2026-24087 2026-06-01 Memory corruption while processing fastboot OEM commands.
CVE-2026-10099 2026-05-29 XX-Net V5.16.6 contains a WebSocket frame parsing vulnerability in the WebSocket_receive_worker routine of simple_http_server.py that allows attackers to cause corrupted application data by sending un…
CVE-2026-7307 2026-05-19 A flaw was found in Keycloak. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can send a specially crafted XML input to the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) endpoint. This malicious input can cause high C…
CVE-2026-0983 2026-05-18 Denial-of-service condition in M-Files Server versions before 26.5.16015.0, before 26.2 LTS, and before 25.8 LTS SR3 allows an authenticated user to cause the MFserver process to crash
CVE-2026-6442 2026-04-16 Improper validation of bash commands in Snowflake Cortex Code CLI versions prior to 1.0.25 allowed subsequent commands to execute outside the sandbox. An attacker could exploit this by embedding speci…
CVE-2026-40198 2026-04-10 Net::CIDR::Lite versions before 0.23 for Perl does not validate IPv6 group count, which may allow IP ACL bypass. _pack_ipv6() does not check that uncompressed IPv6 addresses (without ::) have exactly…
CVE-2026-33778 2026-04-09 An Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input vulnerability in the IPsec library used by kmd and iked of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series and MX Series allows an unauthenticated, ne…
CVE-2026-34835 2026-04-02 Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. From versions 3.0.0.beta1 to before 3.1.21, and 3.2.0 to before 3.2.6, Rack::Request parses the Host header using an AUTHORITY regular expression that acce…
CVE-2026-20114 2026-03-25 A vulnerability in the Lobby Ambassador web-based management API of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to elevate their privileges and access management APIs that woul…
CVE-2025-13995 2026-03-19 IBM QRadar SIEM 7.5.0 through 7.5.0 Update Package 14 could allow an attacker with access to one tenant to access hostname data from another tenant's account.
CVE-2026-3632 2026-03-17 A flaw was found in libsoup, a library used by applications to send network requests. This vulnerability occurs because libsoup does not properly validate hostnames, allowing special characters to be …
CVE-2025-59785 2026-03-04 Improper validation of API end-point in 2N Access Commander version 3.4.2 and prior allows attacker to bypass password policy for backup file encryption. This vulnerability can only be exploited after…

Content submission

Name
CWE Content Team
Organization
MITRE
Date
2020-06-24
Version
4.1

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2020-08-20 CWE Content Team 4.2 updated Related_Attack_Patterns
2022-04-28 CWE Content Team 4.7 updated Related_Attack_Patterns
2022-10-13 CWE Content Team 4.9 updated Observed_Examples
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Weakness_Ordinalities
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