CWE-792: Incomplete Filtering of One or More Instances of Special Elements

VariantIncomplete

The product receives data from an upstream component, but does not completely filter one or more instances of special elements before sending it to a downstream component.

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Incomplete filtering of this nature involves either: only filtering a single instance of a special element when more exist, or not filtering all instances or all elements where multiple special elements exist.

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