CWE Reference

CWE-1176: Inefficient CPU Computation

Official CWE-1176 CWE context with Glexia analysis, remediation guidance, related CVEs, and ATT&CK context.

Release 4.20weaknessIncomplete

Glexia's Take

CWE-1176: Inefficient CPU Computation

Inefficient CPU Computation represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.

Executive Impact

Availability: Reduce Performance,DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU): This issue can make the product perform more slowly, possibly in ways that are noticeable to the users. If an attacker can influence the amount of computation that must be performed, e.g. by triggering worst-case complexity, then this performance problem might introduce a vulnerability.

Developer Pattern

CWE-1176 is the kind of defect developers can usually prevent with explicit validation, safer framework defaults, and tests that exercise hostile input or unsafe state transitions.

Confidence

high confidence from CWE-1176, 4.20.

Official CWE Definition

CWE-1176: Inefficient CPU Computation

The product performs CPU computations using algorithms that are not as efficient as they could be for the needs of the developer, i.e., the computations can be optimized further.

Type: weakness
Abstraction: Class
Status: Incomplete
Source: MITRE CWE definition

Developer And Remediation Guidance

How teams prevent and detect this weakness

Causes

Missing validation
Unsafe defaults
Insufficient authorization or memory-safety invariant

Remediation

Use safe APIs
Centralize the control
Add regression tests
Review logs and telemetry for attempted abuse

Detection

Code review
SAST
DAST
Focused regression tests

Mappings

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