CWE-117Base

Improper Output Neutralization for Logs

Draft in the CWE catalog · 123 CVEs mapped

123
CVEs mapped
5.3
Median CVSS
What it is

The product constructs a log message from external input, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements when the message is written to a log file.

Recent examples
5.3cvss
CVE-2026-15661

CVE-2026-15661 - MEDIUM Severity Vulnerability

IBM Concert 1.0 through 3.0.0 could allow an unauthorized user to inject data into log messages due to improper neutralization of special elements when written to log files.

MEDIUMno explanation yet
0%
epss
8.1cvss
CVE-2026-63442

CVE-2026-63442 - HIGH Severity Vulnerability

OPNsense is a FreeBSD based firewall and routing platform. Prior to version 26.1.11, the unauthenticated WebGUI login usernamefld accepts carriage-return and line-feed characters that survive LOG_AUTH processing through syslog-ng-lockout.conf into the syslog-ng program destination feeding lockout_handler. The consumer's readline() processing treats an injected fragment as a separate authentication event and selects the first syntactically valid IP address from the forged line. An attacker with network access to the login page can forge failure events for another IP, causing that IP to be added to the sshlockout PF table and its active states to be killed, or forge accepted events that reset an attacker's own brute-force counter. This can block administrative, DNS, gateway, or monitoring addresses and can bypass password-guessing lockout without authentication. This issue is fixed in version 26.1.11.

HIGHno explanation yet
0%
epss
5.3cvss
CVE-2026-109786

CVE-2026-109786 - MEDIUM Severity Vulnerability

In fail2ban 0.10.5 through 1.1.1 before ddd879d, the sshd filter (config/filter.d/sshd.conf) accepts an "on <token>" suffix after the host address. Because OpenSSH logs the offered username verbatim, a remote unauthenticated attacker can use a username such as "x VICTIM-SOURCE-IP-ADDRESS on" to make fail2ban associate failed login attempts with an arbitrary source IP address and ban it (e.g., to block logins from a legitimate user). The default filter mode is affected.

MEDIUMno explanation yet
0%
epss
The record
Technical detail
CWE ID
CWE-117
Abstraction
Base
Structure
Simple
Status
Draft
References (4)