CWE-8: J2EE Misconfiguration: Entity Bean Declared Remote
Official CWE-8 CWE context with Glexia analysis, remediation guidance, related CVEs, and ATT&CK context.
Glexia's Take
CWE-8: J2EE Misconfiguration: Entity Bean Declared Remote
J2EE Misconfiguration: Entity Bean Declared Remote represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.
Executive Impact
- Confidentiality,Integrity: Read Application Data,Modify Application Data
Developer Pattern
CWE-8 is the kind of defect developers can usually prevent with explicit validation, safer framework defaults, and tests that exercise hostile input or unsafe state transitions.
Confidence
high confidence from CWE-8, 4.20.
Official CWE Definition
CWE-8: J2EE Misconfiguration: Entity Bean Declared Remote
When an application exposes a remote interface for an entity bean, it might also expose methods that get or set the bean's data. These methods could be leveraged to read sensitive information, or to change data in ways that violate the application's expectations, potentially leading to other vulnerabilities.
Developer And Remediation Guidance
How teams prevent and detect this weakness
Causes
- The following example demonstrates the weakness.
Remediation
- Implementation: Declare Java beans "local" when possible. When a bean must be remotely accessible, make sure that sensitive information is not exposed, and ensure that the application logic performs appropriate validation of any data that might be modified by an attacker.
Detection
- Code review
- SAST
- DAST
- Focused regression tests
Mappings
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ATT&CK Relevance
ATT&CK relevance is shown only when reviewed or responsibly inferred.