CWE-69 2 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-69: Improper Handling of Windows ::DATA Alternate Data Stream

Overview

CWE-69 (Improper Handling of Windows ::DATA Alternate Data Stream) 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 does not properly prevent access to, or detect usage of, alternate data streams (ADS).

Background details

Extended context from the CWE catalog (rendered from MITRE XHTML).

Alternate data streams (ADS) were first implemented in the Windows NT operating system to provide compatibility between NTFS and the Macintosh Hierarchical File System (HFS). In HFS, data and resource forks are used to store information about a file. The data fork provides information about the contents of the file while the resource fork stores metadata such as file type.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language — Not Language-Specific Undetermined —
operating_system — Windows 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-2025-3941 2025-05-22 Improper Handling of Windows ::DATA Alternate Data Stream vulnerability in Tridium Niagara Framework on Windows, Tridium Niagara Enterprise Security on Windows allows Input Data Manipulation. This iss…
CVE-2024-43033 2024-08-22 JPress through 5.1.1 on Windows has an arbitrary file upload vulnerability that could cause arbitrary code execution via ::$DATA to AttachmentController, such as a .jsp::$DATA file to io.jpress.web.co…

Previous names

  • Windows ::DATA Alternate Data Stream (2008-04-11)
  • Failure to Handle Windows ::DATA Alternate Data Stream (2010-12-13)

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 Applicable_Platforms, Background_Details, Description, Relationships, Other_Notes, References, Taxonomy_Mappings
2008-10-14 CWE Content Team 1.0.1 — updated Description
2009-10-29 CWE Content Team 1.6 — updated Other_Notes, Theoretical_Notes
2010-04-05 CWE Content Team 1.8.1 — updated Related_Attack_Patterns
2010-12-13 CWE Content Team 1.11 — updated Name
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 — updated Common_Consequences
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 — updated Observed_Examples, References, Relationships
2012-10-30 CWE Content Team 2.3 — updated Potential_Mitigations
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 — updated Applicable_Platforms, References, Relationships
2018-03-27 CWE Content Team 3.1 — updated References
2019-01-03 CWE Content Team 3.2 — updated Related_Attack_Patterns
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 — updated Relationships
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 — updated Description
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 — updated References, Relationships, Time_of_Introduction
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 — updated Mapping_Notes
2025-09-09 CWE Content Team 4.18 — updated Affected_Resources, Functional_Areas
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 — updated Detection_Factors, Potential_Mitigations, Weakness_Ordinalities
cvelogic Threat Intelligence