CWE-617Reachable Assertion

Description

The product contains an assert() or similar statement that can be triggered by an attacker, which leads to an application exit or other behavior that is more severe than necessary.

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Common consequences

• Availability→DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart
  An attacker that can trigger an assert statement can still lead to a denial of service if the relevant code can be triggered by an attacker, and if the scope of the assert() extends beyond the attacker's own session.

Potential mitigations

• Implementation
  Make sensitive open/close operation non reachable by directly user-controlled data (e.g. open/close resources)
• Implementation
  Perform input validation on user data.

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