CWE-153 4 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-153: Improper Neutralization of Substitution Characters

Overview

CWE-153 (Improper Neutralization of Substitution Characters) 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 from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could be interpreted as substitution characters when they are sent to a downstream component.

Applicable platforms

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

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-2025-53006 2025-07-02 DataEase is an open source business intelligence and data visualization tool. Prior to version 2.10.11, in both PostgreSQL and Redshift, apart from parameters like "socketfactory" and "socketfactoryar…
CVE-2025-53005 2025-07-01 DataEase is an open source business intelligence and data visualization tool. Prior to version 2.10.11, there is a bypass vulnerability in Dataease's PostgreSQL Data Source JDBC Connection Parameters.…
CVE-2025-53004 2025-06-30 DataEase is an open source business intelligence and data visualization tool. Prior to version 2.10.11, there is a bypass vulnerability in Dataease's Redshift Data Source JDBC Connection Parameters. T…
CVE-2025-49003 2025-06-26 DataEase is an open source business intelligence and data visualization tool. Prior to version 2.10.11, a threat actor may take advantage of a feature in Java in which the character "ı" becomes "I" wh…

Previous names

  • Substitution Character (2008-01-30)
  • Failure to Remove Substitution Character (2008-04-11)
  • Failure to Sanitize Substitution Character (2009-03-10)
  • Improper Sanitization of Substitution Characters (2010-04-05)

Content submission

Name
PLOVER
Date
2006-07-19
Version
Draft 3

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2008-07-01 Eric Dalci 1.0 updated Potential_Mitigations, Time_of_Introduction
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2009-03-10 CWE Content Team 1.3 updated Description, Name
2009-07-27 CWE Content Team 1.5 updated Potential_Mitigations
2010-04-05 CWE Content Team 1.8.1 updated Description, Name
2011-03-29 CWE Content Team 1.12 updated Observed_Examples, Potential_Mitigations
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences
2011-06-27 CWE Content Team 2.0 updated Common_Consequences
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Relationships
2012-10-30 CWE Content Team 2.3 updated Potential_Mitigations
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2017-05-03 CWE Content Team 2.11 updated Potential_Mitigations
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Applicable_Platforms
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Potential_Mitigations, Relationships
2020-06-25 CWE Content Team 4.1 updated Potential_Mitigations
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Description, Potential_Mitigations
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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