CWE-402

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

Medium

Description

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

Potential Impact

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 havin...

Related Weaknesses

References

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