Excessively Complex Data Representation

Opis

The product uses an unnecessarily complex internal representation for its data structures or interrelationships between those structures.

Skutki

• Other

  Reduce Maintainability; Increase Analytical Complexity

  This issue makes it more difficult to understand 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.

• Other

  Reduce Performance

Słabość nadrzędna

• CWE-710 Improper Adherence to Coding Standards

Słabości podrzędne

• CWE-1043 Data Element Aggregating an Excessively Large Number of Non-Primitive Elements
• CWE-1055 Multiple Inheritance from Concrete Classes
• CWE-1074 Class with Excessively Deep Inheritance
• CWE-1086 Class with Excessive Number of Child Classes

Kiedy powstaje

• Implementation
• Architecture and Design

Dotyczy

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