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CWE-1119Excessive Use of Unconditional Branching

Category: other

Description

The code uses too many unconditional branches (such as "goto").

Common consequences· 1

  • Other — Reduce Maintainability, Increase Analytical Complexity
    This issue makes it more difficult to understand and/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.

References

  1. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1119.html

Compliance frameworks addressing this (incoming)1

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
ComplianceControlcra-annexi-3100%live

Related by meaning· 6

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

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Insufficient Control Flow Management
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Excessive McCabe Cyclomatic Complexity
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Excessive Halstead Complexity
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Insufficient Use of Symbolic Constants
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Excessive Code Complexity
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Excessively Deep Nesting
Sourced from MITRE CWE 4.20. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.