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CWE-1099Inconsistent Naming Conventions for Identifiers

Category: other

Description

The product's code, documentation, or other artifacts do not consistently use the same naming conventions for variables, callables, groups of related callables, I/O capabilities, data types, file names, or similar types of elements.

Common consequences· 1

  • Other — Reduce Maintainability, Increase Analytical Complexity
    This issue makes it more difficult to understand and/or maintain the product due to inconsistencies, 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.

References

  1. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1099.html

Related by meaning· 6

Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.

CWE
Insufficient Adherence to Expected Conventions
CWE
Improper Adherence to Coding Standards
CWE
Inappropriate Comment Style
CWE
Insufficient Use of Symbolic Constants
CWE
Insufficient Encapsulation
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Missing Standardized Error Handling Mechanism
Sourced from MITRE CWE 4.20. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.