Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input
The product receives input that is expected to be of a certain type, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input is actually of the expected type.
Description
When input does not comply with the expected type, attackers could trigger unexpected errors, cause incorrect actions to take place, or exploit latent vulnerabilities that would not be possible if the input conformed with the expected type.
This weakness can appear in type-unsafe programming languages, or in programming languages that support casting or conversion of an input to another type.
See Also
Weaknesses in this category are related to improper input validation.
Weaknesses in this category are related to a software system's components for input validation, output validation, or other kinds of validation. Validation is a freque...
Weaknesses in this category are caused by improper data type transformation or improper handling of multiple data types.
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