Category · CWE-171

DEPRECATED: Cleansing, Canonicalization, and Comparison Errors

This entry has been deprecated. It was originally used for organizing the Development View (CWE-699) and some other views, but it introduced unnecessary complexity and depth to the resulting tree. Weaknesses in this category were related to improper handling of data within protection mechanisms that attempt to perform neutralization for untrusted data. These weaknesses can be found in other similar categories.

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This category has been deprecated by MITRE. It is kept here for reference and backward compatibility. Browse the active categories for current guidance.

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