CWE-402

Transmission of Private Resources into a New Sphere ('Resource Leak')

Weakness Description

The product makes resources available to untrusted parties when those resources are only intended to be accessed by the product.

Common Consequences

Confidentiality
Read Application Data

Detection Methods

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.)

Effectiveness: High

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