CWE-176Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding

Abstraction: Variant · CVEs in our corpus: 31

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

Last updated: 20 August 2026 14:15 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 · 1 mapping(s) from 1 framework(s): CAPEC 1 (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)

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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-2024-43093` KEV	8.1	7.3	0.0072	2024-11-13
`CVE-2025-71316`	7.3	9.8	0.0038	2026-06-04
`CVE-2024-24691`	7.1	9.6	0.0169	2024-02-14
`CVE-2023-39213`	7.0	9.6	0.0145	2023-08-08
`CVE-2026-45062`	6.2	8.1	0.0057	2026-06-10
`CVE-2026-23950`	6.1	8.8	0.0023	2026-01-20
`CVE-2026-45135`	6.1	8.1	0.0050	2026-06-23
`CVE-2006-10002`	5.9	7.5	0.0060	2026-03-19
`CVE-2026-7040`	5.8	7.5	0.0044	2026-04-27
`CVE-2026-48618`	5.6	6.5	0.0323	2026-06-26
`CVE-2026-4116`	5.4	7.2	0.0042	2026-04-09
`CVE-2026-25480`	5.2	6.5	0.0041	2026-02-09
`CVE-2026-4114`	5.1	6.6	0.0060	2026-04-09
`CVE-2026-49401`	5.1	7.3	0.0019	2026-06-23
`CVE-2026-20202`	4.9	6.6	0.0025	2026-04-15
`CVE-2026-59890`	4.8	6.1	0.0040	2026-07-08
`CVE-2020-8929`	4.5	5.3	0.0046	2020-10-19
`CVE-2023-41889`	4.5	5.3	0.0058	2023-09-15
`CVE-2023-52081`	4.5	5.3	0.0052	2023-12-28
`CVE-2026-44288`	4.4	5.3	0.0030	2026-05-13
`CVE-2025-59547`	4.3	5.3	0.0025	2025-09-23
`CVE-2025-55129`	4.3	5.4	0.0024	2025-12-02
`CVE-2026-14978`	4.1	5.5	0.0012	2026-08-19
`CVE-2023-31169`	3.9	4.8	0.0036	2023-08-31
`CVE-2026-35346`	2.8	3.3	0.0018	2026-04-22