Inappropriate coding practices

Description

Classes are found with their fields defined as public, which does not respect the encapsulation principle.

Impact

Obtain and modify attributes that by definition should be private.

Recommendation

Set attributes as private and generate methods to access them.

Threat

Authorized user from the Internet.

Expected Remediation Time

⌚ minutes.

Score

Default score using CVSS 3.1. It may change depending on the context of the src.

Base

• Attack vector: N
• Attack complexity: H
• Privileges required: L
• User interaction: N
• Scope: U
• Confidentiality: L
• Integrity: L
• Availability: N

Temporal

• Exploit code madurity: P
• Remediation level: O
• Report confidence: R

Result

• Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:R
• Score:
  • Base: 4.2
  • Temporal: 3.7
• Severity:
  • Base: Medium
  • Temporal: Low

Requirements

• 156.Source code without sensitive information
• 168.Initialize variables explicitly
• 266.Disable insecure functionalities
• 302.Declare dependencies explicitly
• 342.Validate request parameters

Fixes

• Java
• TypeScript
• Swift
• C-Sharp
• Dart
• Ruby
• Scala
• PHP
• Python
• Go

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