CWE-576: EJB Bad Practices: Use of Java I/O

MITRE CWE weakness

Description

The product violates the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) specification by using the java.io package.

The Enterprise JavaBeans specification requires that every bean provider follow a set of programming guidelines designed to ensure that the bean will be portable and behave consistently in any EJB container. In this case, the product violates the following EJB guideline: "An enterprise bean must not use the java.io package to attempt to access files and directories in the file system." The specification justifies this requirement in the following way: "The file system APIs are not well-suited for business components to access data. Business components should use a resource manager API, such as JDBC, to store data."

Common consequences

• Other: Quality Degradation

Mitigations

Implementation — Do not use Java I/O when writing EJBs.

References

• CWE page: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/576.html
• CWE list: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/index.html