CWE-1164 — Irrelevant Code

provenance: imported · CWE: CWE-1164

CWE-1164: Irrelevant Code

MITRE CWE weakness


Kind	Weakness
Abstraction	Class
Status	Incomplete
Likelihood of exploit	—

Description

The product contains code that is not essential for execution, i.e. makes no state changes and has no side effects that alter data or control flow, such that removal of the code would have no impact to functionality or correctness.

Irrelevant code could include dead code, initialization that is not used, empty blocks, code that could be entirely removed due to optimization, etc.

Common consequences

Other: Reduce Reliability
Other: Reduce Performance

Mitigations

(none listed)

References

CWE page: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1164.html
CWE list: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/index.html