CWEweakness

CWE-107 Struts: Unused Validation Form

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Abstraction
Variant
Structure
Simple
Status
Draft
Languages
Java
CWE version
5.0

Description

An unused validation form indicates that validation logic is not up-to-date.

Common consequences

• Other: Quality Degradation

Potential mitigations

• [Implementation] Remove the unused Validation Form from the validation.xml file.

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 (2)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-561 Dead Code weakness