CWEweakness
CWE-1066 Missing Serialization Control Element
- Abstraction
- Base
- Structure
- Simple
- Status
- Incomplete
- Languages
- Not Language-Specific
- CWE version
- 5.0
Description
The product contains a serializable data element that does not
have an associated serialization method.
Common consequences
• Other: Reduce Reliability — This issue can prevent the product from running reliably, e.g. by triggering an exception. If the relevant code is reachable by an attacker, then this reliability problem might introduce a vulnerability.
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.)
Related
Child of · CWE (1)
- CWE-710 Improper Adherence to Coding Standards weakness
Referenced by CVE · weakness (1)
- CVE-2026-4372 A critical remote code execution vulnerability exists in all versions of the HuggingFace transformers library prior to version 5.3.0. vulnerability