CWE-430: Deployment of Wrong Handler

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The wrong "handler" is assigned to process an object.

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An example of deploying the wrong handler would be calling a servlet to reveal source code of a .JSP file, or automatically "determining" type of the object even if it is contradictory to an explicitly specified type.

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