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Inappropriate coding practices - Transparency Conflict

Description​

The application uses Transparency attributes such as SecurityCriticalAttribute and SecuritySafeCriticalAttribute to identify code that performs critical security operations. However a trasparency conflict is created when a member is marked with a security attribute that has a different transparency than the security attribute of a container of the member.

Impact​

Cause unexpected behaviors in the application.

Recommendation​

Remove nested transparency annotation to avoid security attributes conflicts.

Threat​

Anonymous attacker from Internet.

Expected Remediation Time​

⌚ 30 minutes.

Score​

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

Base​

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

Temporal​

  • Exploit code madurity: U
  • Remediation level: U
  • Report confidence: R

Result​

  • Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N/E:U/RL:U/RC:R
  • Score:
    • Base: 3.7
    • Temporal: 3.3
  • Severity:
    • Base: Low
    • Temporal: Low

Code Examples​

Compliant code​

The source code does not have any transparency annotations in production

using System;
using System.Security;

namespace MyLibrary{
  public class Foo{
    public void Bar(){
      //Do something
    }
    public void Testeo(){
      //Do seomething
    }
  }
}

Non compliant code​

There are nested transparency annotations in the source code

using System;
using System.Security;

namespace MyLibrary{

  [SecurityCritical]
  public class Foo{

    [SecuritySafeCritical]
    public void Bar(){
      //Do something
    }

    public void Testeo(){
      //Do something
    }
  }
}

Details​

https://rules.sonarsource.com/csharp/type/Vulnerability/RSPEC-4211

Requirements​

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