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CWE-1093 Excessively Complex Data Representation

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

Description

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

Common consequences

• 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

Related

Child of · CWE (1)

  • CWE-710 Improper Adherence to Coding Standards weakness

Referenced by CWE · child of (4)

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