CWE-1061 — Insufficient Encapsulation

provenance: imported · CWE: CWE-1061

CWE-1061: Insufficient Encapsulation

MITRE CWE weakness


Kind	Weakness
Abstraction	Class
Status	Incomplete
Likelihood of exploit	—

Description

The product does not sufficiently hide the internal representation and implementation details of data or methods, which might allow external components or modules to modify data unexpectedly, invoke unexpected functionality, or introduce dependencies that the programmer did not intend.

Common consequences

Access Control: Varies by Context, Bypass Protection Mechanism
Other: Reduce Maintainability, Increase Analytical Complexity

Mitigations

(none listed)

References

CWE page: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1061.html
CWE list: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/index.html

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