CQE-9226: Excessive Attack Surface

 
Excessive Attack Surface
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Quality Issue ID: 9226 Maturity: Preliminary
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Description Summary

The product has an attack surface whose quantitative measurement exceeds a desirable maximum.

Extended Description

Originating from software security, an "attack surface" measure typically reflects the number of input points and outpoints that can be utilized by an untrusted party, i.e. a potential attacker. In some cases, this measure may reflect other aspects of quality besides security; e.g., a product with many inputs and outputs may require a large number of tests in order to improve code coverage.

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9115Security
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9221Excessive Code Complexity
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Related Taxonomy Entries

TaxonomyVersionRelated ID
SQAE7.9
+ References
Pratyusa Manadhata. "An Attack Surface Metric". November 2008. <http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/2008/CMU-CS-08-152.pdf>.
Pratyusa Manadhata and Jeannette M. Wing. "Measuring a System’s Attack Surface". 2004. <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wing/www/publications/ManadhataWing04.pdf>.
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