CWE-576 — EJB Bad Practices: Use of Java I/O
CWE-576: EJB Bad Practices: Use of Java I/O
MITRE CWE weakness
| Kind | Weakness |
| Abstraction | Variant |
| Status | Draft |
| Likelihood of exploit | — |
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