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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 transparency 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

⌚ 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: 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

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 something
}
}
}

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

Fixes

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