CWE-157 (Failure to Sanitize Paired Delimiters) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.
The product does not properly handle the characters that are used to mark the beginning and ending of a group of entities, such as parentheses, brackets, and braces.
| Kind | Name | Class | Prevalence | OS / CPE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| language | — | Not Language-Specific | Undetermined | — |
These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.
| CVE | Published | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-25063 | 2026-01-29 | gradle-completion provides Bash and Zsh completion support for Gradle. A command injection vulnerability was found in gradle-completion up to and including 9.3.0 that allows arbitrary code execution w… |
| CVE-2025-25286 | 2025-02-13 | Crayfish is a collection of Islandora 8 microservices, one of which, Homarus, provides FFmpeg as a microservice. Prior to Crayfish version 4.1.0, remote code execution may be possible in web-accessibl… |
| 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 |
| 2009-07-27 | CWE Content Team | 1.5 | — | updated Potential_Mitigations |
| 2011-03-29 | CWE Content Team | 1.12 | — | updated 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 |
| 2014-06-23 | CWE Content Team | 2.7 | — | updated Applicable_Platforms, Demonstrative_Examples, Description |
| 2014-07-30 | CWE Content Team | 2.8 | — | updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings |
| 2017-05-03 | CWE Content Team | 2.11 | — | updated Potential_Mitigations |
| 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 |