Cyber Resilience

CWE · MITRE source

CWE-150Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences

Abstraction: Variant · CVEs in our corpus: 76

The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could be interpreted as escape, meta, or control character sequences when they are sent to a downstream component.

Last updated: 20 August 2026 20:22 UTC

Cumulative inbound coverage

How completely the frameworks we cross-walk collectively cover this — the verdict is the strongest single mapping (overlapping partials are not summed); breadth shows the corroboration behind it.

Collective: partial · 4 mapping(s) from 1 framework(s): CAPEC 4 (partial)

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Control responseHuman-reviewed

Answering this weakness across the control lifecycle, from our framework cross-walks.

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53 / CSF Protect)
  • PR.PS-06
  • SI-10 Information Input Validation
Detect
Catch it (CSF Detect / Respond)

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Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

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Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V1.2.10
  • V1.3.12

NIST 800-53 r5 controls that address this weakness (0)AI-assisted

Control Title Family Why it addresses this CWE
No NIST controls proposed yet.

Top CVEs of this weakness type, ranked by Risk Priority

CVE Risk CVSS EPSS Published
CVE-2017-0899 8.29.80.10812017-08-31
CVE-2020-6932 7.910.00.03592020-08-12
CVE-2022-30123 7.710.00.01802022-12-05
CVE-2023-3265 7.69.80.01622023-08-14
CVE-2025-55754 7.69.60.10142025-10-27
CVE-2025-25286 7.59.80.01022025-02-13
CVE-2026-25996 7.39.80.00562026-02-12
CVE-2026-11362 7.39.80.00452026-06-05
CVE-2021-25310 7.28.80.04632021-02-02
CVE-2023-26055 7.29.90.01162023-03-02
CVE-2025-47284 6.99.90.00442025-05-19
CVE-2026-113736.99.10.00572026-06-22
CVE-2023-28446 6.88.80.01142023-03-24
CVE-2024-32986 6.89.60.00682024-05-03
CVE-2026-9270 6.89.10.00332026-06-05
CVE-2026-50638 6.89.10.00342026-06-10
CVE-2024-27936 6.78.80.00942024-03-21
CVE-2026-629486.79.60.00362026-07-15
CVE-2024-52005 6.68.80.00512025-01-15
CVE-2025-0975 6.68.80.00672025-02-28
CVE-2026-26149 6.49.00.00562026-04-14
CVE-2026-46720 6.28.20.00342026-05-17
CVE-2026-50637 6.28.20.00322026-06-10
CVE-2024-56201 6.18.80.00312024-12-23
CVE-2024-52006 6.17.50.01062025-01-14