Reliance on Package-level Scope

Description

The purpose of package scope is to prevent accidental access by other parts of a program. This is an ease-of-software-development feature but not a security feature.

Demonstrations

The following examples help to illustrate the nature of this weakness and describe methods or techniques which can be used to mitigate the risk.

Note that the examples here are by no means exhaustive and any given weakness may have many subtle varieties, each of which may require different detection methods or runtime controls.

Example One

The following example demonstrates the weakness.

package math;
public class Lebesgue implements Integration{

  public final Static String youAreHidingThisFunction(functionToIntegrate){


    return ...;

  }

}

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