CWE-155Variant

Improper Neutralization of Wildcards or Matching Symbols

Draft in the CWE catalog · 19 CVEs mapped

19
CVEs mapped
6.7
Median CVSS
What it is

The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could be interpreted as wildcards or matching symbols when they are sent to a downstream component.

Recent examples
9.6cvss
CVE-2026-85724

CVE-2026-85724 - CRITICAL Severity Vulnerability

Moquette is a lightweight Java MQTT broker. Prior to 0.18.1, when pattern-based ACL rules are configured, AuthorizationsCollector.canDoOperation substitutes client ID and username values directly into rules containing %c or %u and then treats the result as an MQTT topic filter. A client that uses + or # in either identity can broaden the substituted filter and gain cross-tenant read and write access. A # identity can also produce an invalid filter that triggers a NullPointerException in Topic.match and disrupts session processing. This issue is fixed in version 0.18.1.

CRITICALno explanation yet
0%
epss
8.1cvss
CVE-2026-87016

CVE-2026-87016 - HIGH Severity Vulnerability

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.6.41 until 0.11.1, get_user_by_oauth_sub and get_user_by_scim_external_id in backend/open_webui/models/users.py used JSON contains matching that compiled to SQL LIKE substring matching on SQLite. An OAuth subject containing percent or underscore wildcard characters could resolve to a different stored identity, potentially selecting an administrator account and issuing the attacker that account's session; PostgreSQL deployments were not affected. This issue is fixed in version 0.11.1.

HIGHno explanation yet
1%
epss
—none
CVE-2026-68939

CVE-2026-68939 - UNKNOWN Severity Vulnerability

Pyenv provides simple Python version management. Prior to 2.8.0, is_version_safe() in libexec/pyenv-version-file-read accepts shell glob metacharacters in .python-version values, and unquoted PYENV_VERSION expansion in libexec/pyenv-version-name, libexec/pyenv-which, libexec/pyenv-prefix, libexec/pyenv-local, libexec/pyenv-global, libexec/pyenv-version, and libexec/pyenv-versions pathname-expands the value against the current directory, allowing a matching attacker-controlled file to silently select a different installed interpreter or version. This issue is fixed in version 2.8.0.

no explanation yet
0%
epss
The record
Technical detail
CWE ID
CWE-155
Abstraction
Variant
Structure
Simple
Status
Draft