Vulnerability Details
Severity:
High
Category:
API
Description
The API does not properly validate, sanitize, or limit incoming data, accepting inputs that violate expected data types, ranges, formats, or sizes.
Risks
An attacker could inject malicious payloads, cause application errors, bypass business logic, trigger buffer overflows, or perform denial-of-service attacks through malformed input.
Remediation
Implement strict input validation using allowlists and schema validation (e.g., JSON Schema, OpenAPI specification). Enforce data type, length, range, and format constraints. Sanitize inputs before processing. Return clear validation error messages.