The product performs a comparison between two entities, but the entities are of different, incompatible types that cannot be guaranteed to provide correct results when they are directly compared.
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CWE-1024 (Comparison of Incompatible Types) is a base-level software weakness catalogued by MITRE in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE). It describes a recurring type of mistake that can lead to exploitable security vulnerabilities.
2 recorded CVEs are caused by CWE-1024 (Comparison of Incompatible Types). The highest-severity and most recent are shown first.
What can happen when CWE-1024 is exploited.
Varies by Context
Affects: Other
Typically introduced during these phases of the software lifecycle.
Languages
Automated static analysis, commonly referred to as Static Application Security Testing (SAST), can find some instances of this weakness by analyzing source code (or binary/compiled code) without having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect "sources" (origins of input) with "sinks" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)
Thoroughly test the comparison scheme before deploying code into production. Perform positive testing as well as negative testing.
Common questions about CWE-1024.
Weakness data is sourced from the MITRE CWE catalog (v4.20). CVE associations are aggregated and kept current by RadicalNotion.AI.
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