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CWE-1124Excessively Deep Nesting

Category: other

Description

The code contains a callable or other code grouping in which the nesting / branching is too deep.

Common consequences· 1

  • Other — Reduce Maintainability
    This issue makes it more difficult to 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/1124.html

Related by meaning· 6

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

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Excessive McCabe Cyclomatic Complexity
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Excessive Code Complexity
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Insufficient Control Flow Management
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Invokable Control Element with Large Number of Outward Calls
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Invocation of a Control Element at an Unnecessarily Deep Horizontal Layer
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Excessive Use of Unconditional Branching
Sourced from MITRE CWE 4.20. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.