CWEweakness

CWE-1102 Reliance on Machine-Dependent Data Representation

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

Description

The code uses a data representation that relies on low-level data representation or constructs that may vary across different processors, physical machines, OSes, or other physical components.

Common consequences

• Other: Reduce Maintainability — This issue makes it more difficult to maintain and/or port the product, which indirectly affects security by making it more difficult or time-consuming to find and/or fix vulnerabilities. It also might make it easier to introduce vulnerabilities.

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.)

Observed examples

• CVE-2025-47153: Chain: build process for JavaScript runtime environment can have inconsistent sizes for off_t (CWE-1102), allowing out-of-bounds access / segmentation fault (CWE-119)

Related

Observed example · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2025-47153 Certain build processes for libuv and Node.js for 32-bit systems, such as for the nodejs binary package through… vulnerability

Child of · CWE (1)

  • CWE-758 Reliance on Undefined, Unspecified, or Implementation-Defined Behavior weakness

Peer of · CWE (1)

  • CWE-1105 Insufficient Encapsulation of Machine-Dependent Functionality weakness

Referenced by CVE · weakness (1)

  • CVE-2025-47153 Certain build processes for libuv and Node.js for 32-bit systems, such as for the nodejs binary package through… vulnerability