CWE-546 - Suspicious Comment
CWE-546
- Abstraction:
- Variant
- Structure:
- Simple
- Status:
- Draft
- Weakness Name
Suspicious Comment
- 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
Scope: Other
Impact: Quality Degradation
Notes: 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.
- Related Weaknesses
- Release Date:
- 2006-07-19
- Latest Modification Date:
- 2023-06-29
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