Use of Inherently Dangerous Function

Property
Language
Severity
CWE	CWE-242: Use of Inherently Dangerous Function
Confidence Level	Low
Impact Level	Low
Likelihood Level	Low

Description#

Using Go’s ‘unsafe’ package bypasses the language’s type safety and memory protections, making it easy to introduce bugs like buffer overflows or memory corruption. This can lead to unstable or insecure code if not handled with extreme care.

Impact#

If exploited, vulnerabilities from improper use of the ‘unsafe’ package can allow attackers to execute arbitrary code, crash the application, or read and write sensitive memory. This can compromise data integrity, expose confidential information, and potentially enable full system compromise.