CWE-487: Reliance on Package-level Scope
Description
Java packages are not inherently closed; therefore, relying on them for code security is not a good practice.
Submission Date :
July 19, 2006, midnight
Modification Date :
2023-06-29 00:00:00+00:00
Organization :
MITRE
Extended 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.
Example - 1
The following example demonstrates the weakness.
return ...;public final Static String youAreHidingThisFunction(functionToIntegrate){}package math;public class Lebesgue implements Integration{}Related Weaknesses
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