CWE-546: 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.
- Abstraction
- VariantA weakness tied to a specific language, technology or resource.
- Likelihood of exploit
- Not rated by MITRE
- Status
- Draft
Common 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
- Documentation
Remove comments that suggest the presence of bugs, incomplete functionality, or weaknesses, before deploying the application.
Related weaknesses
Parent weaknesses
CAPEC attack patterns that exploit it
CWE 4.20 links no CAPEC attack pattern to this weakness.