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CWE-1038Insecure Automated Optimizations

Category: other

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· 1

  • Integrity — Alter Execution Logic
    The optimizations alter the order of execution resulting in side effects that were not intended by the original developer.

References

  1. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1038.html

(incoming)1

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
VulnerabilityCVE-2025-48877cve-2025-488770%live

Related by meaning· 6

Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.

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Improper Adherence to Coding Standards
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Excessive Use of Self-Modifying Code
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Use of Low-Level Functionality
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Violation of Secure Design Principles
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Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information
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Improper Resource Locking
Sourced from MITRE CWE 4.20. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.