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ECO-CMP-PY-018

Name: Recursive algorithm without safeguards

Category: CMP

Family: PY

Primary layer: code

System layers: code

Description

Recursion without depth safeguards risks overhead and runtime errors.

Impact

  • confidence: 0.55
  • notes: Depends on input size.
  • type: cpu

Detection

  • languages:
  • python
  • method: ast

Remediation

  • guidance: Consider iterative approaches or enforce depth limits.
  • tradeoffs: Code rewrite.

Pattern examples

No pattern examples provided.

Remediation examples

No remediation examples provided.