Detail CWE-495

The product has a method that is declared public, but returns a reference to a private data structure, which could then be modified in unexpected ways.

Mode Pengenalan

Implementation

Platform yang Berlaku

Bahasa

Kelas: Object-Oriented (Undetermined)
Nama: C (Undetermined)
Nama: C++ (Undetermined)
Nama: Java (Undetermined)
Nama: C# (Undetermined)

Konsekuensi Umum

Mitigasi yang Memungkinkan

Phases : Implementation
Declare the method private.
Phases : Implementation
Clone the member data and keep an unmodified version of the data private to the object.
Phases : Implementation
Use public setter methods that govern how a private member can be modified.

Metode Deteksi

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.)
Efektivitas : High

Catatan Pemetaan Kerentanan

Justifikasi : This CWE entry is at the Variant level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.
Komentar : 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.

Referensi

REF-6

Seven Pernicious Kingdoms: A Taxonomy of Software Security Errors
Katrina Tsipenyuk, Brian Chess, Gary McGraw.
https://cwe.mitre.org/documents/sources/SevenPerniciousKingdoms.pdf

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Modifikasi