CWE-1120: Excessive Code Complexity

Description

The code is too complex, as calculated using a well-defined, quantitative measure.

Submission Date :

July 2, 2018, midnight

Modification Date :

2023-06-29 00:00:00+00:00

Organization :

MITRE

Extended Description

This issue makes it more difficult to understand and/or maintain the product, which indirectly affects security by making it more difficult or time-consuming to find and/or fix vulnerabilities. It also might make it easier to introduce vulnerabilities.

This issue can make the product perform more slowly. If the relevant code is reachable by an attacker, then this performance problem might introduce a vulnerability.

Related Weaknesses

This table shows the weaknesses and high level categories that are related to this weakness. These relationships are defined to give an overview of the different insight to similar items that may exist at higher and lower levels of abstraction.

CWE-1064: Invokable Control Element with Signature Containing an Excessive Number of Parameters

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CWE-1075: Unconditional Control Flow Transfer outside of Switch Block

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CWE-1080: Source Code File with Excessive Number of Lines of Code

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CWE-1095: Loop Condition Value Update within the Loop

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CWE-1119: Excessive Use of Unconditional Branching

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CWE-1121: Excessive McCabe Cyclomatic Complexity

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CWE-1122: Excessive Halstead Complexity

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CWE-1123: Excessive Use of Self-Modifying Code

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CWE-1124: Excessively Deep Nesting

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CWE-1125: Excessive Attack Surface

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