Detalle CWE-1235

CWE-1235

Incorrect Use of Autoboxing and Unboxing for Performance Critical Operations
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2020-02-24
00h00 +00:00
2025-12-11
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Nombre: Incorrect Use of Autoboxing and Unboxing for Performance Critical Operations

The code uses boxed primitives, which may introduce inefficiencies into performance-critical operations.

Informaciones generales

Detalles de contexto

Modos de introducción

Implementation : The programmer may use boxed primitives when not strictly necessary.

Plataformas aplicables

Lenguaje

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

Sistemas operativos

Class: Not OS-Specific (Undetermined)

Arquitecturas

Class: Not Architecture-Specific (Undetermined)

Tecnologías

Class: Not Technology-Specific (Undetermined)

Consecuencias comunes

Alcance Impacto Probabilidad
AvailabilityDoS: Resource Consumption (CPU), DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory), DoS: Resource Consumption (Other), Reduce Performance

Note: Incorrect autoboxing/unboxing would result in reduced performance, which sometimes can lead to resource consumption issues, impacting availability when used with generic collections.
Low

Mitigaciones potenciales

Phases : Implementation
Use of boxed primitives should be limited to certain situations such as when calling methods with typed parameters. They should not be used for scientific computing or other performance critical operations. They are only suited to support "impedance mismatch" between reference types and primitives. Examine the use of boxed primitives prior to use. Use SparseArrays or ArrayMap instead of HashMap to avoid performance overhead.

Métodos de detección

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.)

Notas de mapeo de vulnerabilidades

Justificación : 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.
Comentario : 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.

Referencias

REF-1051

Oracle Java Documentation
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/language/autoboxing.html

REF-1052

SEI CERT Oracle Coding Standard for Java : Rule 02. Expressions (EXP)
The Software Engineering Institute.
https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/java/EXP04-J.+Do+not+pass+arguments+to+certain+Java+Collections+Framework+methods+that+are+a+different+type+than+the+collection+parameter+type

Envío

Nombre Organización Fecha Fecha de lanzamiento Version
Joe Harvey 2019-10-14 +00:00 2020-02-24 +00:00 4.0

Modificaciones

Nombre Organización Fecha Comentario
CWE Content Team MITRE 2021-03-15 +00:00 updated Demonstrative_Examples
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-04-27 +00:00 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-06-29 +00:00 updated Mapping_Notes
CWE Content Team MITRE 2025-12-11 +00:00 updated Background_Details, Common_Consequences, Description, Detection_Factors, Potential_Mitigations, Weakness_Ordinalities