CWEweakness
CWE-1087 Class with Virtual Method without a Virtual Destructor
- Abstraction
- Base
- Structure
- Simple
- Status
- Incomplete
- Languages
- Object-Oriented
- CWE version
- 5.0
Description
A class contains a virtual method, but the method does not have an associated virtual destructor.
Common consequences
• Other: Reduce Reliability — This issue can prevent the product from running reliably, e.g. due to undefined behavior. 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-1076 Insufficient Adherence to Expected Conventions weakness