CWE-838— Inappropriate Encoding for Output Context
The product uses or specifies an encoding when generating output to a downstream component, but the specified encoding is not the same as the encoding that is expected by the downstream component.— MITRE CWE catalog
22 active CVEs classified under this weakness category. Sourced from NVD, GHSA, and vendor advisories. Full definition on MITRE →
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- CVE-2025-4052CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82025-05-05
Inappropriate implementation in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 136.0.7103.59 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI gestures to bypass discretionary access control via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium sec…
- CVE-2019-18981CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82019-11-15
Pimcore before 6.2.2 lacks an Access Denied outcome for a certain scenario of an incorrect recipient ID of a notification.
- CVE-2022-43407HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-10-19
Jenkins Pipeline: Input Step Plugin 451.vf1a_a_4f405289 and earlier does not restrict or sanitize the optionally specified ID of the 'input' step, which is used for the URLs that process user interactions for the given 'input' step (procee…
- CVE-2020-10996HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12020-04-27
An issue was discovered in Percona XtraDB Cluster before 5.7.28-31.41.2. A bundled script inadvertently sets a static transition_key for SST processes in place of the random key expected.
- CVE-2022-43408HIGHCVSS 6.5EG 8.02022-10-19
Jenkins Pipeline: Stage View Plugin 2.26 and earlier does not correctly encode the ID of 'input' steps when using it to generate URLs to proceed or abort Pipeline builds, allowing attackers able to configure Pipelines to specify 'input' st…
- CVE-2018-9862HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82018-04-09
util.c in runV 1.0.0 for Docker mishandles a numeric username, which allows attackers to obtain root access by leveraging the presence of an initial numeric value on an /etc/passwd line, and then issuing a "docker exec" command with that v…
- CVE-2024-11702HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52024-11-26
Copying sensitive information from Private Browsing tabs on Android, such as passwords, may have inadvertently stored data in the cloud-based clipboard history if enabled. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 133 and Thunderbird < 133.
- CVE-2019-6110MEDIUMCVSS 6.8EG 6.82019-01-31
In OpenSSH 7.9, due to accepting and displaying arbitrary stderr output from the server, a malicious server (or Man-in-The-Middle attacker) can manipulate the client output, for example to use ANSI control codes to hide additional files be…
- CVE-2023-6512MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52023-12-06
Inappropriate implementation in Web Browser UI in Google Chrome prior to 120.0.6099.62 allowed a remote attacker to potentially spoof the contents of an iframe dialog context menu via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
- CVE-2026-84463MEDIUMCVSS 6.3EG 6.32026-09-25
Zammad is a web based open source helpdesk/customer support system. Prior to 7.1.2, a user with Knowledge Base editing rights for a category can embed a video widget in a published answer with a specially crafted value. When the answer is …
- CVE-2026-119281MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92026-10-29
MariaDB Connector/J is used to connect applications developed in Java to MariaDB and MySQL databases. From 3.0.0 until 3.3.7, 3.4.5, and 3.5.11, the connector assumed result bytes were UTF-8 but guarded only changes to character_set_client…
- CVE-2026-114650MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92026-10-22
A flaw in the client-side encryption support of the MongoDB .NET/C# driver can cause data designated for client-side field-level encryption to be written without encryption. Under certain platform text-encoding configurations, an internal …
- CVE-2026-55859MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92026-08-28
MariaDB Connector/R2DBC is a non-blocking MariaDB and MySQL client implemented in Java. Prior to 1.4.1, org.mariadb:r2dbc-mariadb encodes and decodes all character data under the assumption that the connection character set is UTF-8. A ser…
- CVE-2026-55858MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92026-08-28
MariaDB Connector/J is used to connect applications developed in Java to MariaDB and MySQL databases. Prior to 2.7.14, 3.3.5, 3.4.3, and 3.5.9, the connector encodes and decodes protocol text and performs client-side escaping under the ass…
- CVE-2023-5770MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32024-01-09
Proofpoint Enterprise Protection contains a vulnerability in the email delivery agent that allows an unauthenticated attacker to inject improperly encoded HTML into the email body of a message through the email subject. The vulnerability …
- CVE-2021-35246MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32022-11-23
The application fails to prevent users from connecting to it over unencrypted connections. An attacker able to modify a legitimate user's network traffic could bypass the application's use of SSL/TLS encryption and use the application as a…
- CVE-2026-53641MEDIUMCVSS 4.8EG 4.82026-07-06
FOSSBilling is a free, open-source billing and client management system. Versions 0.6.0 through 0.7.2 have a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the client-facing email history views of FOSSBilling. Email HTML content (`cont…
- CVE-2024-34006MEDIUMCVSS 4.3EG 4.32024-05-31
The site log report required additional encoding of event descriptions to ensure any HTML in the content is displayed in plaintext instead of being rendered.
- CVE-2023-3735MEDIUMCVSS 4.3EG 4.32023-08-01
Inappropriate implementation in Web API Permission Prompts in Google Chrome prior to 115.0.5790.98 allowed a remote attacker to obfuscate security UI via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
- CVE-2020-7292MEDIUMCVSS 4.3EG 4.32020-07-15
Inappropriate Encoding for output context vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.1 allows a remote attacker to cause MWG to return an ambiguous redirect response via getting a user to click on a malicious URL.
- CVE-2020-29135MEDIUMCVSS 4.1EG 4.12020-11-27
cPanel before 90.0.17 has multiple instances of URL parameter injection (SEC-567).
- CVE-2026-47079LOWCVSS 2.1EG 2.12026-08-21
Inappropriate Encoding for Output Context vulnerability in joshnuss xml_builder (XmlBuilder module) allows Content Spoofing, Cross-site Scripting. This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/xml_builder.ex and program routines…
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