CWEweakness
CWE-1105 Insufficient Encapsulation of Machine-Dependent Functionality
- Abstraction
- Base
- Structure
- Simple
- Status
- Incomplete
- Languages
- Not Language-Specific
- CWE version
- 5.0
Description
The product or code uses machine-dependent functionality, but
it does not sufficiently encapsulate or isolate this functionality from
the rest of the code.
Common consequences
• Other: Reduce Maintainability — This issue makes it more difficult to port or maintain 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.)
Related
Child of · CWE (2)
Referenced by CWE · child of (1)
- CWE-188 Reliance on Data/Memory Layout weakness
Referenced by CWE · peer of (1)
- CWE-1102 Reliance on Machine-Dependent Data Representation weakness