CWE-546 – Suspicious Comment

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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.

Modes of Introduction:

– Implementation

 

 

Related Weaknesses

CWE-1078

 

Consequences

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

Phase: Documentation

Description: 

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

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