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CWE-179 (不正确的行为次序:过早验证) — Vulnerability Class 4

4 vulnerabilities classified as CWE-179 (不正确的行为次序:过早验证). AI Chinese analysis included.

CWE-179, Incorrect Behavior Order: Early Validation, is a logic flaw where software checks input integrity before applying necessary sanitization or canonicalization processes. This sequencing error allows attackers to bypass security controls by submitting malicious payloads that appear valid initially but become dangerous only after transformation. For instance, an attacker might inject encoded characters that pass early validation but decode into harmful commands during subsequent processing. To mitigate this risk, developers must ensure validation occurs strictly after all input modifications, such as decoding, normalization, and cleansing, are complete. By establishing a strict processing order where sanitization precedes validation, organizations can guarantee that the data being checked is in its final, safe form, thereby preventing evasion techniques that rely on the temporal gap between input receipt and security enforcement.

MITRE CWE Description
The product validates input before applying protection mechanisms that modify the input, which could allow an attacker to bypass the validation via dangerous inputs that only arise after the modification. Product needs to validate data at the proper time, after data has been canonicalized and cleansed. Early validation is susceptible to various manipulations that result in dangerous inputs that are produced by canonicalization and cleansing.
Common Consequences (1)
Access Control, IntegrityBypass Protection Mechanism, Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands
An attacker could include dangerous input that bypasses validation protection mechanisms which can be used to launch various attacks including injection attacks, execute arbitrary code or cause other unintended behavior.
Mitigations (1)
ImplementationInputs should be decoded and canonicalized to the application's current internal representation before being validated (CWE-180). Make sure that the application does not decode the same input twice (CWE-174). Such errors could be used to bypass allowlist validation schemes by introducing dangerous inputs after they have been checked.
Examples (2)
The following code attempts to validate a given input path by checking it against an allowlist and then return the canonical path. In this specific case, the path is considered valid if it starts with the string "/safe_dir/".
String path = getInputPath(); if (path.startsWith("/safe_dir/")) { File f = new File(path); return f.getCanonicalPath(); }
Bad · Java
String path = getInputPath(); File f = new File(path); if (f.getCanonicalPath().startsWith("/safe_dir/")) { return f.getCanonicalPath(); }
Good · Java
This script creates a subdirectory within a user directory and sets the user as the owner.
function createDir($userName,$dirName){ $userDir = '/users/'. $userName; if(strpos($dirName,'..') !== false){ echo 'Directory name contains invalid sequence'; return; } //filter out '~' because other scripts identify user directories by this prefix $dirName = str_replace('~','',$dirName); $newDir = $userDir . $dirName; mkdir($newDir, 0700); chown($newDir,$userName); }
Bad · PHP
CVE IDTitleCVSSSeverityPublished
CVE-2026-3832 Gnutls: gnutls: security bypass allows acceptance of revoked server certificates via crafted ocsp response 3.7 Low2026-04-30
CVE-2025-4759 lockfile linting 安全漏洞 — lockfile-lint-api 8.3 High2025-05-16
CVE-2024-41686 Password Policy Bypass Vulnerability — SyroTech SY-GPON-1110-WDONT router 7.1 -2024-07-26
CVE-2022-1271 GNU Gzip 输入验证错误漏洞 — gzip, xz-utils 8.0 -2022-08-31

Vulnerabilities classified as CWE-179 (不正确的行为次序:过早验证) represent 4 CVEs. The CWE taxonomy describes the weakness; review individual CVEs for product-specific impact.