CWE-766 Details

CWE-766

Critical Data Element Declared Public
Incomplete
2009-05-27
00h00 +00:00
2024-02-29
00h00 +00:00
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Name: Critical Data Element Declared Public

The product declares a critical variable, field, or member to be public when intended security policy requires it to be private.

Allgemeine Informationen

Einführungsmodi

Implementation

Anwendbare Plattformen

Sprache

Name: C++ (Undetermined)
Name: C# (Undetermined)
Name: Java (Undetermined)

Häufige Konsequenzen

Bereich Auswirkung Wahrscheinlichkeit
Integrity
Confidentiality
Read Application Data, Modify Application Data

Note: Making a critical variable public allows anyone with access to the object in which the variable is contained to alter or read the value.
OtherReduce Maintainability

Beobachtete Beispiele

Referenzen Beschreibung

CVE-2010-3860

variables declared public allow remote read of system properties such as user name and home directory.

Mögliche Gegenmaßnahmen

Phases : Implementation
Data should be private, static, and final whenever possible. This will assure that your code is protected by instantiating early, preventing access, and preventing tampering.

Erkennungsmethoden

Automated Static Analysis

Automated static analysis, commonly referred to as Static Application Security Testing (SAST), can find some instances of this weakness by analyzing source code (or binary/compiled code) without having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect "sources" (origins of input) with "sinks" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)
Wirksamkeit : High

Hinweise zur Schwachstellen-Zuordnung

Begründung : This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.
Kommentar : Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

Referenzen

REF-960

Automated Source Code Maintainability Measure (ASCMM)
Object Management Group (OMG).
https://www.omg.org/spec/ASCMM/

Einreichung

Name Organisation Datum Veröffentlichungsdatum Version
CWE Content Team MITRE 2009-03-03 +00:00 2009-05-27 +00:00 1.4

Änderungen

Name Organisation Datum Kommentar
CWE Content Team MITRE 2009-12-28 +00:00 updated Demonstrative_Examples
CWE Content Team MITRE 2010-12-13 +00:00 updated Observed_Examples
CWE Content Team MITRE 2011-06-01 +00:00 updated Common_Consequences, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
CWE Content Team MITRE 2012-05-11 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2014-07-30 +00:00 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
CWE Content Team MITRE 2017-11-08 +00:00 updated Likelihood_of_Exploit, Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2019-01-03 +00:00 updated Common_Consequences, Description, Name, References, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings, Weakness_Ordinalities
CWE Content Team MITRE 2020-02-24 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-01-31 +00:00 updated Description
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-04-27 +00:00 updated Detection_Factors, References, Relationships, Time_of_Introduction, Type
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-06-29 +00:00 updated Mapping_Notes, Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-10-26 +00:00 updated Observed_Examples
CWE Content Team MITRE 2024-02-29 +00:00 updated Demonstrative_Examples