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CWE-1078 Inappropriate Source Code Style or Formatting

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Abstraction
Class
Structure
Simple
Status
Incomplete
Languages
Not Language-Specific
CWE version
5.0

Description

The source code does not follow desired style or formatting for indentation, white space, comments, etc.

Common consequences

• Other: Increase Analytical Complexity — Variations in indentation and other white space, comments, etc. can make it more difficult for human analysts to understand the actual behavior that is being implemented.

Detection methods

• Automated Static Analysis: Automated static analysis, commonly referred to as Static Application Security Testing (SAST), can find some instances of this weakness by analyzing source code (or binary/compiled code) without having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect "sources" (origins of input) with "sinks" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.) • Automated Static Analysis - Source Code: An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) or linter can report or highlight this weakness.

Related

Child of · CWE (1)

  • CWE-1076 Insufficient Adherence to Expected Conventions weakness

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Referenced by CWE · child of (12)

  • CWE-1085 Invokable Control Element with Excessive Volume of Commented-out Code weakness
  • CWE-1099 Inconsistent Naming Conventions for Identifiers weakness
  • CWE-1106 Insufficient Use of Symbolic Constants weakness
  • CWE-1107 Insufficient Isolation of Symbolic Constant Definitions weakness
  • CWE-1109 Use of Same Variable for Multiple Purposes weakness
  • CWE-1113 Inappropriate Comment Style weakness
  • CWE-1114 Inappropriate Whitespace Style weakness
  • CWE-1115 Source Code Element without Standard Prologue weakness
  • CWE-1116 Inaccurate Source Code Comments weakness
  • CWE-1117 Callable with Insufficient Behavioral Summary weakness
  • CWE-546 Suspicious Comment weakness
  • CWE-547 Use of Hard-coded, Security-relevant Constants weakness