Insecure Automated Optimizations

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.

  • Source

    CWE Catalog - 4.14

  • Identifier

    CWE-1038

  • Status

    Draft

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See Also

Comprehensive Categorization: Component Interaction

Weaknesses in this category are related to component interaction.

Comprehensive CWE Dictionary

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Weaknesses Introduced During Design

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