CWE-1038 - Insecure Automated Optimizations

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Description

The product uses a mechanism that automatically optimizes code, e.g. to improve a characteristic such as performance, but the optimizations can have an unintended side effect that might violate an intended security assumption.

Modes of Introduction:

– Architecture and Design

Likelihood of Exploit: Low

Related Weaknesses

CWE-435
CWE-758

Consequences

Integrity: Alter Execution Logic

The optimizations alter the order of execution resulting in side effects that were not intended by the original developer.

Potential Mitigations

CVE References

InCWE- 1038, Insecure Automated Optimizations

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