CWE-666

Operation on Resource in Wrong Phase of Lifetime

Medium

Description

The product performs an operation on a resource at the wrong phase of the resource's lifecycle, which can lead to unexpected behaviors.

Potential Impact

Other: Other

How to Fix

Architecture and Design

Follow the resource's lifecycle from creation to release.

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...

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References

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