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CWE-1038 - Insecure Automated Optimizations

CWE-1038 Low

  • Abstraction:
  • Class
  • Structure:
  • Simple
  • Status:
  • Draft
Weakness Name

Insecure Automated Optimizations

Description

The product uses a mechanism that automatically optimizes code, e.g. to improve a characteristic such as performance, but the optimizations can have an unintended side effect that might violate an intended security assumption.

Common Consequences

Scope: Integrity

Impact: Alter Execution Logic

Notes: The optimizations alter the order of execution resulting in side effects that were not intended by the original developer.

Related Weaknesses
  • Release Date:
  • 2018-03-29
  • Latest Modification Date:
  • 2023-10-26

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