CWE-150
Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences
Description
The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could be interpreted as escape, meta, or control character sequences when they are sent to a downstream component.
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Related attack patterns (CAPEC)
CAPEC-134 · CAPEC-41 · CAPEC-81 · CAPEC-93
CVEs mapped to this weakness (74)
page 2 of 4| CVE | Vendor / Product | Sev | Risk | CVSS | EPSS | KEV | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2024-27936 | Hig | 0.50 | 8.8 | 0.01 | Mar 21, 2024 | Deno is a JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly runtime with secure defaults. Starting in version 1.32.1 and prior to version 1.41.0 of the deno library, maliciously crafted permission request can show the spoofed permission prompt by inserting a broken ANSI escape sequence… | ||
| CVE-2023-28446 | Hig | 0.50 | 8.8 | 0.01 | Mar 24, 2023 | Deno is a simple, modern and secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that uses V8 and is built in Rust. Arbitrary program names without any ANSI filtering allows any malicious program to clear the first 2 lines of a `op_spawn_child` or `op_kill` prompt and replace it with… | ||
| CVE-2026-46741 | Hig | 0.49 | 7.5 | 0.00 | Jun 4, 2026 | Etsy::StatsD versions through 1.002002 for Perl allow metric injections. The metric names and values are not checked for newlines, colons or pipes. Metrics generated from untrusted sources could inject additional statsd metrics. Note that the git repository contains an… | ||
| CVE-2024-36052 | Hig | 0.49 | 7.5 | 0.01 | May 21, 2024 | RARLAB WinRAR before 7.00, on Windows, allows attackers to spoof the screen output via ANSI escape sequences, a different issue than CVE-2024-33899. | ||
| CVE-2026-21521 | Hig | 0.48 | 7.4 | 0.01 | Jan 22, 2026 | Improper neutralization of escape, meta, or control sequences in Copilot allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information over a network. | ||
| CVE-2026-46720 | Hig | 0.46 | 8.2 | 0.00 | May 17, 2026 | Net::Statsd::Tiny versions before 0.3.8 for Perl allowed metric injections. The metric names and set values were not checked for newlines, colons or pipes. Metrics generated from untrusted sources could inject additional statsd metrics. | ||
| CVE-2024-33899 | Hig | 0.46 | 7.1 | 0.01 | Apr 29, 2024 | RARLAB WinRAR before 7.00, on Linux and UNIX platforms, allows attackers to spoof the screen output, or cause a denial of service, via ANSI escape sequences. | ||
| CVE-2026-3108 | Hig | 0.45 | 8.0 | 0.00 | Mar 26, 2026 | Mattermost versions 11.2.x <= 11.2.2, 10.11.x <= 10.11.10, 11.4.x <= 11.4.0, 11.3.x <= 11.3.1 fail to sanitize user-controlled post content in the mmctl commands terminal output which allows attackers to manipulate administrator terminals via crafted messages containing ANSI and… | ||
| CVE-2026-54057 | Hig | 0.44 | 7.8 | 0.00 | Jun 12, 2026 | Kitty is a cross-platform GPU based terminal. In versions prior to 0.47.3, kitty's OSC 21 (color-control) query reply reflects attacker-controlled bytes, including newlines, into the shell's input without sanitization. Version 0.47.3 fixes the issue. | ||
| CVE-2026-45038 | Hig | 0.44 | 7.8 | 0.00 | May 15, 2026 | Tabby (formerly Terminus) is a highly configurable terminal emulator. Prior to 1.0.233, since Tabby does not escape control characters from file paths when dragging and dropping a file into it, code execution can be achieved. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.0.233. | ||
| CVE-2025-62845 | Med | 0.44 | 6.7 | 0.00 | Mar 20, 2026 | An improper neutralization of escape, meta, or control sequences vulnerability has been reported to affect QHora. If a local attacker gains an administrator account, they can then exploit the vulnerability to cause unexpected behavior. We have already fixed the vulnerability in… | ||
| CVE-2026-8722 | Med | 0.42 | 6.5 | 0.00 | Jun 4, 2026 | Net::Async::Statsd::Client versions through 0.005 for Perl allow metric injections. The metric names are not checked for newlines, colons or pipes. Metrics generated from untrusted sources could inject additional statsd metrics. | ||
| CVE-2024-47252 | Hig | 0.42 | 7.5 | 0.01 | Jul 10, 2025 | Insufficient escaping of user-supplied data in mod_ssl in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.63 and earlier allows an untrusted SSL/TLS client to insert escape characters into log files in some configurations. In a logging configuration where CustomLog is used with "%{varname}x" or… | ||
| CVE-2024-9774 | Med | 0.42 | 6.5 | 0.01 | Dec 27, 2024 | A vulnerability was found in python-sql where unary operators do not escape non-Expression. | ||
| CVE-2025-1692 | Med | 0.41 | 6.3 | 0.00 | Feb 27, 2025 | The MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character injection where an attacker with control of the user’s clipboard could manipulate them to paste text into mongosh that evaluates arbitrary code. Control characters in the pasted text can be used to obfuscate malicious… | ||
| CVE-2026-72913 | Hig | 0.40 | — | 0.00 | Aug 10, 2026 | Kitty is a cross-platform GPU based terminal. Prior to 0.48.2, the @kitty-echo and @kitty-ssh DCS handlers in kitty/window.py write unauthenticated data to the child shell's stdin, where handle_remote_echo accepts printable shell command characters and handle_remote_ssh calls… | ||
| CVE-2026-8788 | Hig | 0.40 | 7.3 | 0.00 | May 18, 2026 | Net::Statsd::Lite versions through 0.10.0 for Perl allowed metric injections. The values from the set_add method were not checked for newlines, colons or pipes. Metrics generated from untrusted sources could inject additional statsd metrics. Note that version 0.9.0 fixed a… | ||
| CVE-2026-39879 | Hig | 0.39 | 7.1 | 0.00 | Jul 20, 2026 | Due to a missing sanitization call in [`afsql_dd_run_query`](https://github.com/syslog-ng/syslog-ng/blob/649e6e18e3459fb4467000a88dfb12fa97f9719c/modules/afsql/afsql.c#L219), syslog-ng before 4.12 are vulnerable to SQL injection from an untrusted source. This is not part of the… | ||
| CVE-2020-26283 | Med | 0.37 | 6.8 | 0.01 | Mar 24, 2021 | go-ipfs is an open-source golang implementation of IPFS which is a global, versioned, peer-to-peer filesystem. In go-ipfs before version 0.8.0, control characters are not escaped from console output. This can result in hiding input from the user which could result in the user… | ||
| CVE-2026-64654 | Med | 0.35 | — | 0.01 | Aug 6, 2026 | GitHub CLI (gh) is GitHub's official command line tool. Prior to version 2.97.0, multiple GitHub CLI commands printed externally controlled gist, API, pull request, release, codespace, skill, or agent-task content without neutralizing terminal escape sequences. An attacker who… |
- risk 0.50cvss 8.8epss 0.01
Deno is a JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly runtime with secure defaults. Starting in version 1.32.1 and prior to version 1.41.0 of the deno library, maliciously crafted permission request can show the spoofed permission prompt by inserting a broken ANSI escape sequence…
- risk 0.50cvss 8.8epss 0.01
Deno is a simple, modern and secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that uses V8 and is built in Rust. Arbitrary program names without any ANSI filtering allows any malicious program to clear the first 2 lines of a `op_spawn_child` or `op_kill` prompt and replace it with…
- risk 0.49cvss 7.5epss 0.00
Etsy::StatsD versions through 1.002002 for Perl allow metric injections. The metric names and values are not checked for newlines, colons or pipes. Metrics generated from untrusted sources could inject additional statsd metrics. Note that the git repository contains an…
- risk 0.49cvss 7.5epss 0.01
RARLAB WinRAR before 7.00, on Windows, allows attackers to spoof the screen output via ANSI escape sequences, a different issue than CVE-2024-33899.
- risk 0.48cvss 7.4epss 0.01
Improper neutralization of escape, meta, or control sequences in Copilot allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information over a network.
- risk 0.46cvss 8.2epss 0.00
Net::Statsd::Tiny versions before 0.3.8 for Perl allowed metric injections. The metric names and set values were not checked for newlines, colons or pipes. Metrics generated from untrusted sources could inject additional statsd metrics.
- risk 0.46cvss 7.1epss 0.01
RARLAB WinRAR before 7.00, on Linux and UNIX platforms, allows attackers to spoof the screen output, or cause a denial of service, via ANSI escape sequences.
- risk 0.45cvss 8.0epss 0.00
Mattermost versions 11.2.x <= 11.2.2, 10.11.x <= 10.11.10, 11.4.x <= 11.4.0, 11.3.x <= 11.3.1 fail to sanitize user-controlled post content in the mmctl commands terminal output which allows attackers to manipulate administrator terminals via crafted messages containing ANSI and…
- risk 0.44cvss 7.8epss 0.00
Kitty is a cross-platform GPU based terminal. In versions prior to 0.47.3, kitty's OSC 21 (color-control) query reply reflects attacker-controlled bytes, including newlines, into the shell's input without sanitization. Version 0.47.3 fixes the issue.
- risk 0.44cvss 7.8epss 0.00
Tabby (formerly Terminus) is a highly configurable terminal emulator. Prior to 1.0.233, since Tabby does not escape control characters from file paths when dragging and dropping a file into it, code execution can be achieved. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.0.233.
- risk 0.44cvss 6.7epss 0.00
An improper neutralization of escape, meta, or control sequences vulnerability has been reported to affect QHora. If a local attacker gains an administrator account, they can then exploit the vulnerability to cause unexpected behavior. We have already fixed the vulnerability in…
- risk 0.42cvss 6.5epss 0.00
Net::Async::Statsd::Client versions through 0.005 for Perl allow metric injections. The metric names are not checked for newlines, colons or pipes. Metrics generated from untrusted sources could inject additional statsd metrics.
- risk 0.42cvss 7.5epss 0.01
Insufficient escaping of user-supplied data in mod_ssl in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.63 and earlier allows an untrusted SSL/TLS client to insert escape characters into log files in some configurations. In a logging configuration where CustomLog is used with "%{varname}x" or…
- risk 0.42cvss 6.5epss 0.01
A vulnerability was found in python-sql where unary operators do not escape non-Expression.
- risk 0.41cvss 6.3epss 0.00
The MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character injection where an attacker with control of the user’s clipboard could manipulate them to paste text into mongosh that evaluates arbitrary code. Control characters in the pasted text can be used to obfuscate malicious…
- risk 0.40cvss —epss 0.00
Kitty is a cross-platform GPU based terminal. Prior to 0.48.2, the @kitty-echo and @kitty-ssh DCS handlers in kitty/window.py write unauthenticated data to the child shell's stdin, where handle_remote_echo accepts printable shell command characters and handle_remote_ssh calls…
- risk 0.40cvss 7.3epss 0.00
Net::Statsd::Lite versions through 0.10.0 for Perl allowed metric injections. The values from the set_add method were not checked for newlines, colons or pipes. Metrics generated from untrusted sources could inject additional statsd metrics. Note that version 0.9.0 fixed a…
- risk 0.39cvss 7.1epss 0.00
Due to a missing sanitization call in [`afsql_dd_run_query`](https://github.com/syslog-ng/syslog-ng/blob/649e6e18e3459fb4467000a88dfb12fa97f9719c/modules/afsql/afsql.c#L219), syslog-ng before 4.12 are vulnerable to SQL injection from an untrusted source. This is not part of the…
- risk 0.37cvss 6.8epss 0.01
go-ipfs is an open-source golang implementation of IPFS which is a global, versioned, peer-to-peer filesystem. In go-ipfs before version 0.8.0, control characters are not escaped from console output. This can result in hiding input from the user which could result in the user…
- risk 0.35cvss —epss 0.01
GitHub CLI (gh) is GitHub's official command line tool. Prior to version 2.97.0, multiple GitHub CLI commands printed externally controlled gist, API, pull request, release, codespace, skill, or agent-task content without neutralizing terminal escape sequences. An attacker who…