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CWE-1038Insecure Automated Optimizations
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.
Common consequences
- Integrity→Alter Execution LogicThe optimizations alter the order of execution resulting in side effects that were not intended by the original developer.