CWE-1054 Invocation at an Unnecessarily Deep Layer: Explained
When code skips an architectural layer and calls something deeper, the design gets harder to reason about. Here is what CWE-1054 means and how to fix it.
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When code skips an architectural layer and calls something deeper, the design gets harder to reason about. Here is what CWE-1054 means and how to fix it.
CWE-1053 is a quality weakness. With no design documentation, every vulnerability takes longer to understand, find and fix.
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