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CWE-561Dead Code

Category: other

Description

The product contains dead code, which can never be executed. Dead code is code that can never be executed in a running program. The surrounding code makes it impossible for a section of code to ever be executed.

Common consequences· 2

  • Other — Quality Degradation
    Dead code that results from code that can never be executed is an indication of problems with the source code that needs to be fixed and is an indication of poor quality.
  • Other — Reduce Maintainability

Potential mitigations· 1

  • [Implementation]Remove dead code before deploying the application.

References

  1. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/561.html

(incoming)1

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
VulnerabilityCVE-2025-34205cve-2025-342050%live

Related by meaning· 6

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

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Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
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Irrelevant Code
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NULL Pointer Dereference
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Deadlock
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Use of Prohibited Code
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Active Debug Code
Sourced from MITRE CWE 4.20. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.