The product uses an unnecessarily complex internal representation for its data structures or interrelationships between those structures.
View on MITREThis 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.
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CWE-1093: Excessively Complex Data Representation is a Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) entry maintained by MITRE. The product uses an unnecessarily complex internal representation for its data structures or interrelationships between those structures. 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.
If exploited, CWE-1093 (Excessively Complex Data Representation) it can compromise Other, leading to outcomes such as Reduce Maintainability and Reduce Performance.
A CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration) like CWE-1093 describes a category of software weakness — the underlying flaw type. A CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) identifies a specific, real-world vulnerability in a particular product. In short, a CWE is the kind of mistake, and a CVE is an instance of that mistake being found in software.