Base weakness
Draft
CWE-166: Improper Handling of Missing Special Element
The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not handle or incorrectly handles when an expected special element is missing.
2
Recorded CVEs
With this primary weakness
0
KEVs
In the CISA KEV catalog
Not rated
Likelihood of exploit
Per MITRE
Base
Abstraction
MITRE classification
Overview
CWE-166 (Improper Handling of Missing Special Element) is a base-level software weakness catalogued by MITRE in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE). It describes a recurring type of mistake that can lead to exploitable security vulnerabilities.