Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE Definition / CWE-157

    CWE-157: Failure to Sanitize Paired Delimiters

    The product does not properly handle the characters that are used to mark the beginning and ending of a group of entities, such as parentheses, brackets, and braces.

    Published:19 Jul 2006
    Organization:MITRE
    Modified:11 Dec 2025

    Related Weakness

    CWE-138: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements