CWE-436 107 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-436: Interpretation Conflict

Overview

CWE-436 (Interpretation Conflict) 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

Product A handles inputs or steps differently than Product B, which causes A to perform incorrect actions based on its perception of B's state.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language Not Language-Specific Undetermined
technology Not Technology-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-2026-40930 2026-06-04 LIBPNG is a reference library for use in applications that process PNG (Portable Network Graphics) raster image files. In version 1.8.0, three inter-frame chunk discard paths in the push-mode APNG par…
CVE-2026-47076 2026-05-25 Interpretation Conflict vulnerability in benoitc hackney allows Server Side Request Forgery. hackney_url:normalize/2 URL-decodes the host component after the URL has been parsed into a #hackney_url{} …
CVE-2026-40165 2026-05-21 authentik is an open-source identity provider. Versions 2025.12.4 and prior, and versions 2026.2.0-rc1 through 2026.2.2 were vulnerable to Authentication Bypass through SAML NameID XML Comment Injecti…
CVE-2026-42551 2026-05-13 Flight is an extensible micro-framework for PHP. Prior to 3.18.1, Request::getMethod() unconditionally honors the X-HTTP-Method-Override header and the $_REQUEST['_method'] parameter on any HTTP verb …
CVE-2026-44576 2026-05-13 Next.js is a React framework for building full-stack web applications. From 14.2.0 to before 15.5.16 and 16.2.5, applications using React Server Components can be vulnerable to cache poisoning when sh…
CVE-2026-42177 2026-05-12 linux-entra-sso is a browser plugin for Linux to SSO on Microsoft Entra ID. Prior to 1.8.1, platform/chrome/js/platform-chrome.js:69-88 registers a single declarativeNetRequest rule whose urlFilter is…
CVE-2026-42274 2026-05-08 Heimdall is a cloud native Identity Aware Proxy and Access Control Decision service. Prior to version 0.17.14, Heimdall performs rule matching on the raw (non-normalized) request path, while downstrea…
CVE-2026-42273 2026-05-08 Heimdall is a cloud native Identity Aware Proxy and Access Control Decision service. Prior to version 0.17.14, Heimdall performs host matching in a case-sensitive manner, while HTTP hostnames are case…
CVE-2026-42272 2026-05-08 Heimdall is a cloud native Identity Aware Proxy and Access Control Decision service. Prior to version 0.17.14, Heimdall handles URL-encoded slashes (%2F) in a case-sensitive manner, while percent-enco…
CVE-2026-8034 2026-05-07 A server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability was identified in the GitHub Enterprise Server notebook viewer that allowed an attacker to access internal services by exploiting URL parser confusio…
CVE-2026-30246 2026-05-05 Fiber is a web framework for Go. In github.com/gofiber/fiber/v3 versions through 3.1.0, the default key generator in the cache middleware uses only the request path and does not include the query stri…
CVE-2026-6322 2026-05-05 fast-uri normalize() decoded percent-encoded authority delimiters inside the host component and then re-emitted them as raw delimiters during serialization. A host that combined an allowed domain, an …
CVE-2026-41248 2026-04-24 Clerk JavaScript is the official JavaScript repository for Clerk authentication. createRouteMatcher in @clerk/nextjs, @clerk/nuxt, and @clerk/astro can be bypassed by certain crafted requests, allowin…
CVE-2026-33804 2026-04-16 @fastify/middie versions 9.3.1 and earlier are vulnerable to middleware bypass when the deprecated Fastify ignoreDuplicateSlashes option is enabled. The middleware path matching logic does not account…
CVE-2026-6270 2026-04-16 @fastify/middie versions 9.3.1 and earlier do not register inherited middleware directly on child plugin engine instances. When a Fastify application registers authentication middleware in a parent sc…
CVE-2026-33808 2026-04-15 Impact@fastify/express v4.0.4 and earlier fails to normalize URLs before passing them to Express middleware when Fastify router normalization options are enabled. This allows complete bypass of path-s…
CVE-2026-33807 2026-04-15 @fastify/express v4.0.4 and earlier contains a path handling bug in the onRegister function that causes middleware paths to be doubled when inherited by child plugins. When a child plugin is registere…
CVE-2026-35200 2026-04-06 Parse Server is an open source backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js. Prior to 8.6.73 and 9.7.1-alpha.4, a file can be uploaded with a filename extension that passes …
CVE-2026-32762 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::Utils.forwarded_values parses the RFC 7239 Forwarded header by splitting on sem…
CVE-2026-26961 2026-04-02 Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. Prior to versions 2.2.23, 3.1.21, and 3.2.6, Rack::Multipart::Parser extracts the boundary parameter from multipart/form-data using a greedy regular expres…

Previous names

  • Multiple Interpretation Error (MIE) (2008-04-11)

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 Time_of_Introduction
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Relationships, Other_Notes, Taxonomy_Mappings
2008-10-14 CWE Content Team 1.0.1 updated Description
2009-05-27 CWE Content Team 1.4 updated Related_Attack_Patterns
2009-10-29 CWE Content Team 1.6 updated Relationships
2010-02-16 CWE Content Team 1.8 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2010-04-05 CWE Content Team 1.8.1 updated Related_Attack_Patterns
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
2014-06-23 CWE Content Team 2.7 updated Applicable_Platforms, Description, Observed_Examples, Other_Notes, References
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships
2015-12-07 CWE Content Team 2.9 updated Relationships
2017-01-19 CWE Content Team 2.10 updated Relationships
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Demonstrative_Examples, Observed_Examples, References, Relationships
2018-03-27 CWE Content Team 3.1 updated References
2019-06-20 CWE Content Team 3.3 updated Relationships, Type
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Relationships
2020-08-20 CWE Content Team 4.2 updated Related_Attack_Patterns
2022-04-28 CWE Content Team 4.7 updated Related_Attack_Patterns
2022-06-28 CWE Content Team 4.8 updated Relationships
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated References, Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
2025-09-09 CWE Content Team 4.18 updated References
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Applicable_Platforms, Relationships, Weakness_Ordinalities
cvelogic Threat Intelligence