CWE-1041

Use of Redundant Code
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The product has multiple functions, methods, procedures, macros, etc. that
contain the same code.

Status
incomplete
Abstraction
base

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. For example, if there are two copies of the same code, the programmer might fix a weakness in one copy while forgetting to fix the same weakness in another copy.

Common Consequences

other
Impacts
reduce maintainability

Potential Mitigations

Phases:
implementation
Descriptions:
• Merge common functionality into a single function and then call that function from across the entire code base.