COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATIONDraft

CWE-1038

Insecure Automated Optimizations

The product uses a mechanism that automatically optimizes code, e.g. to improve a characteristic such as performance, but the optimizations can have an unintended side effect that might violate an intended security assumption.

Soyutlama

Class

Yapı

Simple

Sömürü İhtimali

Low

Problemi anla

Problem nedir?

The product uses a mechanism that automatically optimizes code, e.g. to improve a characteristic such as performance, but the optimizations can have an unintended side effect that might violate an intended security assumption.

Kök neden

Problem nasıl ve ne zaman oluşur?

Yaşam döngüsü evresi

Architecture and Design

Optimizations built into the design of a product can have unintended consequences during execution.

Risk

Başarılı sömürü neye yol açar?

Alter Execution Logic

Etkilenen güvenlik alanları: Integrity

The optimizations alter the order of execution resulting in side effects that were not intended by the original developer.

Savunma

Nasıl önlenir ve çözülür?

  • Follow secure coding guidelines for input handling and boundary checking.
  • Enforce strict security reviews and automated static analysis (SAST) checks.