Insufficient Encapsulation of Machine-Dependent Functionality

Opis

The product or code uses machine-dependent functionality, but it does not sufficiently encapsulate or isolate this functionality from the rest of the code.

Skutki

• 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.

Słabość nadrzędna

• CWE-758 Reliance on Undefined, Unspecified, or Implementation-Defined Behavior
• CWE-1061 Insufficient Encapsulation

Słabości podrzędne

• CWE-188 Reliance on Data/Memory Layout

Kiedy powstaje

• Implementation
• Porting

Dotyczy

Not Language-Specific

Źródła

1. Providing a Framework for Effective Software Quality Assessment — Robert A. Martin, Lawrence H. Shafer, 1996