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Improper Validation of Unsafe Equivalence in Input

CWE-1289

The product receives an input value that is used as a resource identifier or other type of reference, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input is equivalent to a potentially-unsafe value.

We track 23 vulnerabilities of this type. 96% are rated high or critical, and the average CVSS score is 8.3. 1 has been exploited in real attacks.

Latest Improper Validation of Unsafe Equivalence in Input vulnerabilities

  • 8.1 High severity

    EOS: Improper Validation of Unsafe Equivalence in Input

    CVE-2026-120979Arista Networks

    This vulnerability affects customers using Arista Pathfinder for WAN path selection with Border Gateway Protocol-Link State (BGP-LS) configured for Dynamic Path Selection (DPS). On affected platforms running Arista EOS with BGP-LS configured for DPS, an attack

  • 8.7 High severity

    Octopus Server: Improper Validation of Unsafe Equivalence in Input

    CVE-2026-116870Octopus Deploy

    In affected versions of Octopus Server, OIDC token issuer validation was performed inconsistently. This could result in a token issued from a suitably configured non legitimate issuer being accepted as a token belonging to a service account from a legitimate t

  • 8.7 High severity

    Octopus Server: Improper Validation of Unsafe Equivalence in Input

    CVE-2026-102478Octopus Deploy

    In affected versions of Octopus Server, an authenticated user with permission to modify roles could bypass the protections preventing access abuse resulting in privilege escalation. It was possible for the built-in role to be weakened and the attacker's accoun

  • 9.2 Critical severity

    handlebars.js: Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs

    CVE-2026-106445Handlebars-lang

    Handlebars provides the power necessary to let users build semantic templates. From 3.0.0 until 4.7.10, Handlebars lookupProperty returns Function.prototype.constructor before applying the prototype-access deny list because constructor is an own property of Fu

  • 9.1 Critical severity

    GiveWP: Improper Validation of Unsafe Equivalence in Input

    CVE-2026-97196Liquid Web / StellarWP

    Improper Validation of Unsafe Equivalence in Input vulnerability in Liquid Web / StellarWP GiveWP allows Authentication Bypass. This issue affects GiveWP: from n/a through 4.16.9.

  • 7.3 High severity

    A flaw has been found in Trusted Domain Project OpenDMARC up to 1.4.2.

    CVE-2026-101015Trusted Domain Project

    A flaw has been found in Trusted Domain Project OpenDMARC up to 1.4.2. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file policy.c of the component Domain Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to improper validation of unsafe equivalence in

  • 8.7 High severity

    aws-network-policy-agent: Improper Validation of Unsafe Equivalence in Input

    CVE-2026-86831AWS

    Improper validation of pod identifier uniqueness in aws-network-policy-agent in Amazon EKS Network Policy Agent before v1.4.0 might allow an authenticated remote user to bypass NetworkPolicy enforcement on co-located pods in other namespaces via crafted pod an

  • 9.9 Critical severity

    Amazon SSM Agent: Server-Side Request Forgery

    CVE-2026-89049AWS

    A server-side request forgery issue due to improper validation of equivalent address representations in the port forwarding to remote hosts functionality in Amazon AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) before 3.3.4851.0 on all platforms might allow an authenti

  • 7.0 High severity

    fedify: Incorrect Behavior Order: Validate Before Canonicalize

    CVE-2026-42462Fedify-dev

    Fedify is a TypeScript library for building federated server apps powered by ActivityPub. Prior to versions 1.9.11, 1.10.10, 2.0.18, 2.1.14, and 2.2.3, an attacker can make use of JSON-LD features to restructure a JSON-LD document that would change how Fedify

  • 7.3 High severity

    Net::CIDR::Set: Improper Validation of Unsafe Equivalence in Input

    CVE-2026-49942RRWO

    Net::CIDR::Set versions through 0.20 for Perl did not validate network masks. The mask portion of a network mask could contain Unicode digits such as the Arabic-Indic One (U+0661), or non-digits, which were ignored. This could allow network masks to accept lar

  • 6.5 Medium severity

    Kludex Starlette HTTP Request/Response Smuggling Exploited

    CVE-2026-48710KludexEPSS 70.3%

    Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit. Prior to version 1.0.1, the HTTP `Host` request header was not validated before being used to reconstruct `request.url`. Because the routing algorithm relies on the raw HTTP path while `request.url` is rebuilt

  • 8.2 High severity

    net/http: Improper Validation of Unsafe Equivalence in Input

    CVE-2026-39821Go standard libraryEPSS 1.83%

    The ToASCII and ToUnicode functions incorrectly accept Punycode-encoded labels that decode to an ASCII-only label. For example, ToUnicode("xn--example-.com") incorrectly returns the name "example.com" rather than an error. This behavior can lead to privilege e

  • 7.5 High severity

    fastify: Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input

    CVE-2026-33806Fastify

    Impact: Fastify applications using schema.body.content for per-content-type body validation can have validation bypassed entirely by prepending a space to the Content-Type header. The body is still parsed correctly but schema validation is skipped. This is a r

  • 7.1 High severity

    mercure: Improper Validation of Unsafe Equivalence in Input

    CVE-2026-39972Dunglas

    Mercure is a protocol for pushing data updates to web browsers and other HTTP clients in a battery-efficient way. Prior to 0.22.0, a cache key collision vulnerability in TopicSelectorStore allows an attacker to poison the match result cache, potentially causin

  • 9.9 Critical severity

    axios: Unintended Proxy or Intermediary

    CVE-2025-62718AxiosEPSS 1.21%

    Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. Prior to 1.15.0 and 0.31.0, Axios does not correctly handle hostname normalization when checking NO_PROXY rules. Requests to loopback addresses like localhost. (with a trailing dot) or [::1] (IP

  • 8.2 High severity

    crypto/x509: Improper Certificate Validation

    CVE-2026-33810Go standard library

    When verifying a certificate chain containing excluded DNS constraints, these constraints are not correctly applied to wildcard DNS SANs which use a different case than the constraint. This only affects validation of otherwise trusted certificate chains, issue

  • 9.1 Critical severity

    fast-jwt: Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

    CVE-2026-35039Nearform

    fast-jwt provides fast JSON Web Token (JWT) implementation. From 0.0.1 to before 6.2.0, setting up a custom cacheKeyBuilder method which does not properly create unique keys for different tokens can lead to cache collisions. This could cause tokens to be mis-i

  • 9.8 Critical severity

    OpenFGA is a high-performance and flexible authorization/permission engine built for…

    CVE-2026-33729Openfga

    OpenFGA is a high-performance and flexible authorization/permission engine built for developers and inspired by Google Zanzibar. In versions prior to 1.13.1, under specific conditions, models using conditions with caching enabled can result in two different ch

  • 8.1 High severity

    oathkeeper: Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness

    CVE-2026-33496Ory

    ORY Oathkeeper is an Identity & Access Proxy (IAP) and Access Control Decision API that authorizes HTTP requests based on sets of Access Rules. Versions prior to 26.2.0 are vulnerable to authentication bypass due to cache key confusion. The `oauth2_introspecti

  • 8.8 High severity

    rust-url: Cross-Site Request Forgery

    CVE-2024-12224Servo

    Improper Validation of Unsafe Equivalence in punycode by the idna crate from Servo rust-url allows an attacker to create a punycode hostname that one part of a system might treat as distinct while another part of that system would treat as equivalent to anothe

  • 7.2 High severity

    c-mor_video_surveillance: Improper Validation of Unsafe Equivalence in Input

    CVE-2024-45179Za-internetEPSS 2.6%

    An issue was discovered in za-internet C-MOR Video Surveillance 5.2401 and 6.00PL01. Due to insufficient input validation, the C-MOR web interface is vulnerable to OS command injection attacks. It was found out that different functionality is vulnerable to OS

  • 7.8 High severity

    1password: Improper Validation of Unsafe Equivalence in Input

    CVE-2024-422191password

    1Password 8 before 8.10.36 for macOS allows local attackers to exfiltrate vault items because XPC inter-process communication validation is insufficient.

  • 9.8 Critical severity

    In certain situations it is possible for an unmanaged rule to exist on the target system that…

    CVE-2022-0675Puppet

    In certain situations it is possible for an unmanaged rule to exist on the target system that has the same comment as the rule specified in the manifest. This could allow for unmanaged rules to exist on the target system and leave the system in an unsafe state