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Home/CWEs/CWE-176
Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-176: Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding

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The product does not properly handle when an input contains Unicode encoding.

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▪ References & documentation

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/176.htmlNVD CWE listing

▪ How attackers exploit CWE-176

MITRE ATT&CK techniques associated with this weakness class (mapped via MITRE CAPEC). A vulnerability of this type could let an adversary carry out:

T1027Obfuscated Files or Informationstealth

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