CWE-168 (Improper Handling of Inconsistent Special Elements) 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 input in which an inconsistency exists between two or more special characters or reserved words.
| 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-2019-25620 | 2026-03-23 | Tree Studio 2.17 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by providing malformed input through the keyboard interface. Attackers can trigger the … |
| CVE-2023-6245 | 2023-12-08 | The Candid library causes a Denial of Service while parsing a specially crafted payload with 'empty' data type. For example, if the payload is `record { * ; empty }` and the canister interface expec… |
| CVE-2023-36843 | 2023-10-12 | An Improper Handling of Inconsistent Special Elements vulnerability in the Junos Services Framework (jsf) module of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an unauthenticated network based attacker to cause… |
| 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 |
| 2008-10-14 | CWE Content Team | 1.0.1 | — | updated Description |
| 2009-03-10 | CWE Content Team | 1.3 | — | updated Relationships |
| 2009-07-27 | CWE Content Team | 1.5 | — | updated Potential_Mitigations |
| 2010-12-13 | CWE Content Team | 1.11 | — | updated Name |
| 2011-03-29 | CWE Content Team | 1.12 | — | updated Potential_Mitigations |
| 2011-06-01 | CWE Content Team | 1.13 | — | 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 |
| 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 Description, 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 |
| 2024-02-29 | CWE Content Team | 4.14 | — | updated Relationships |
| 2025-12-11 | CWE Content Team | 4.19 | — | updated Weakness_Ordinalities |