CWEweakness

CWE-1072 Data Resource Access without Use of Connection Pooling

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Abstraction
Base
Structure
Simple
Status
Incomplete
Languages
Not Language-Specific
CWE version
5.0

Description

The product accesses a data resource through a database without using a connection pooling capability.

Common consequences

• Other: Reduce Performance — This issue can make the product perform more slowly, as connection pools allow connections to be reused without the overhead and time consumption of opening and closing a new connection. If the relevant code is reachable by an attacker, then this performance 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-405 Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification) weakness

Referenced by CVE · weakness (1)

  • CVE-2026-0438 A System Management Mode (SMM) handler could perform a callout to code located in non-SMM/untrusted memory. vulnerability