CWE Clarification: CWE-1007 and Homoglphys in Source Code

2021-11-30 Thread Hood, Jonathan W CTR USARMY DEVCOM AVMC (USA)
Currently, CWE-1007 is a child of UI misrepresentation. However, source code can be maliciously injected using bidi and Unicode homoglyphs as well (see https://www.swatips.com/articles/20211129.html and https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.00169 and the examples under https://github.com/nickboucher/troja

RE: CWE Clarification: CWE-1007 and Homoglphys in Source Code

2021-11-30 Thread Steven M Christey
Jon, We are aware of this new discovery but haven't researched it closely enough from a CWE perspective. It's slated to be addressed in CWE 4.7 (around January/February 2022). In my informal consideration of the problem when it first came out, there seem to be some challenges with respect to CW