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CWE-546Suspicious Comment

Category: other

Description

The code contains comments that suggest the presence of bugs, incomplete functionality, or weaknesses. Many suspicious comments, such as BUG, HACK, FIXME, LATER, LATER2, TODO, in the code indicate missing security functionality and checking. Others indicate code problems that programmers should fix, such as hard-coded variables, error handling, not using stored procedures, and performance issues.

Common consequences· 1

  • Other — Quality Degradation
    Suspicious comments could be an indication that there are problems in the source code that may need to be fixed and is an indication of poor quality. This could lead to further bugs and the introduction of weaknesses.

Potential mitigations· 1

  • [Documentation]Remove comments that suggest the presence of bugs, incomplete functionality, or weaknesses, before deploying the application.

References

  1. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/546.html

Related by meaning· 6

Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.

CWE
Inaccurate Source Code Comments
CWE
Inappropriate Comment Style
CWE
Improper Adherence to Coding Standards
CWE
Incorrect Provision of Specified Functionality
CWE
Insufficient Use of Symbolic Constants
CWE
Insufficient Control Flow Management
Sourced from MITRE CWE 4.20. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.