The product uses or specifies an encoding when generating output to a downstream component, but the specified encoding is not the same as the encoding that is expected by the downstream component.
Volume of CVEs assigned to CWE-838 and their average CVSS base score over time.
Top CVEs that have been assigned this CWE. A single CVE can have multiple CWE assignments, though many have just one.
13 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2019-6110MEDIUM In OpenSSH 7.9, due to accepting and displaying arbitrary stderr output from the server, a malicious server (or Man-in-The-Middle attacker) can manipulate the client output, for ex | Jan 31, 2019 | 6.8 | 44 | NO | YES |
CVE-2019-18981CRITICAL Pimcore before 6.2.2 lacks an Access Denied outcome for a certain scenario of an incorrect recipient ID of a notification. | Nov 15, 2019 | 9.8 | 30 | NO | NO |
CVE-2025-4052CRITICAL Inappropriate implementation in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 136.0.7103.59 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI gestures to bypass discreti | May 5, 2025 | 9.8 | 29 | NO | NO |
CVE-2026-53641MEDIUM FOSSBilling is a free, open-source billing and client management system. Versions 0.6.0 through 0.7.2 have a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the client-facing em | Jul 6, 2026 | 4.8 | 25 | NO | NO |
CVE-2018-9862HIGH util.c in runV 1.0.0 for Docker mishandles a numeric username, which allows attackers to obtain root access by leveraging the presence of an initial numeric value on an /etc/passwd | Apr 9, 2018 | 7.8 | 25 | NO | NO |
CVE-2020-10996HIGH An issue was discovered in Percona XtraDB Cluster before 5.7.28-31.41.2. A bundled script inadvertently sets a static transition_key for SST processes in place of the random key ex | Apr 27, 2020 | 8.1 | 21 | NO | NO |
CVE-2024-11702HIGH Copying sensitive information from Private Browsing tabs on Android, such as passwords, may have inadvertently stored data in the cloud-based clipboard history if enabled. This vul | Nov 26, 2024 | 7.5 | 20 | NO | NO |
CVE-2023-6512MEDIUM Inappropriate implementation in Web Browser UI in Google Chrome prior to 120.0.6099.62 allowed a remote attacker to potentially spoof the contents of an iframe dialog context menu | Dec 6, 2023 | 6.5 | 20 | NO | NO |
CVE-2023-5770MEDIUM Proofpoint Enterprise Protection contains a vulnerability in the email delivery agent that allows an unauthenticated attacker to inject improperly encoded HTML into the email body | Jan 9, 2024 | 5.4 | 17 | NO | NO |
CVE-2023-3735MEDIUM Inappropriate implementation in Web API Permission Prompts in Google Chrome prior to 115.0.5790.98 allowed a remote attacker to obfuscate security UI via a crafted HTML page. (Chro | Aug 1, 2023 | 4.3 | 16 | NO | NO |
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