CWEweakness
CWE-1123 Excessive Use of Self-Modifying Code
- Abstraction
- Base
- Structure
- Simple
- Status
- Incomplete
- Languages
- Not Language-Specific
- CWE version
- 5.0
Description
The product uses too much self-modifying code.
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.
Related
Child of · CWE (1)
- CWE-1120 Excessive Code Complexity weakness