Cyber Resilience

CWE · MITRE source

CWE-185Incorrect Regular Expression

Abstraction: Class · CVEs in our corpus: 41

The product specifies a regular expression in a way that causes data to be improperly matched or compared.

When the regular expression is used in protection mechanisms such as filtering or validation, this may allow an attacker to bypass the intended restrictions on the incoming data.

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 · 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
  • SA-11 Developer Testing and Evaluation
  • SA-15 Development Process, Standards, and Tools
  • SA-3 System Development Life Cycle
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-2015-8389 7.99.80.03892015-12-02
CVE-2019-12798 7.69.80.01662019-06-13
CVE-2024-52289 7.59.80.01062024-11-21
CVE-2026-25896 6.79.30.00462026-02-20
CVE-2020-3408 6.58.60.01552020-09-24
CVE-2018-7158 6.47.50.03412018-05-17
CVE-2018-11615 6.47.50.03352018-08-30
CVE-2018-17984 6.47.80.03372018-10-04
CVE-2018-20801 6.37.50.03172019-03-14
CVE-2019-14993 6.37.50.02292019-08-13
CVE-2018-3737 6.27.50.01742018-06-07
CVE-2024-2223 6.28.10.00522024-04-09
CVE-2025-54365 6.07.50.00732025-07-23
CVE-2025-20139 5.97.50.00642025-04-02
CVE-2026-334185.87.50.00382026-03-24
CVE-2020-11034 5.46.10.07572020-05-05
CVE-2020-7929 5.46.50.01292021-03-01
CVE-2015-8388 5.30.00.06592015-12-02
CVE-2018-7536 5.15.30.04522018-03-09
CVE-2018-7537 5.15.30.04372018-03-09
CVE-2026-25479 5.16.50.00322026-02-09
CVE-2018-20164 5.05.30.03302019-02-13
CVE-2026-25542 5.06.50.00262026-04-21
CVE-2020-1741 4.85.90.00852020-04-24
CVE-2026-48147 4.86.50.00112026-05-27