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Unique rules to find Bugs, Vulnerabilities, Security Hotspots, and Code Smells in your GO code

  • All rules 70
  • Vulnerability20
  • Bug7
  • Security Hotspot14
  • Code Smell29
Filtered: 38 rules found
cwe
    Impact
      Clean code attribute
        1. Credentials should not be hard-coded

           Vulnerability
        2. Hard-coded secrets are security-sensitive

           Security Hotspot
        3. Constructing arguments of system commands from user input is security-sensitive

           Security Hotspot
        4. Extracting archives should not lead to zip slip vulnerabilities

           Vulnerability
        5. JWT should be signed and verified with strong cipher algorithms

           Vulnerability
        6. Cipher algorithms should be robust

           Vulnerability
        7. Encryption algorithms should be used with secure mode and padding scheme

           Vulnerability
        8. Server hostnames should be verified during SSL/TLS connections

           Vulnerability
        9. Insecure temporary file creation methods should not be used

           Vulnerability
        10. Using publicly writable directories is security-sensitive

           Security Hotspot
        11. Passwords should not be stored in plaintext or with a fast hashing algorithm

           Vulnerability
        12. Using clear-text protocols is security-sensitive

           Security Hotspot
        13. HTTP request redirections should not be open to forging attacks

           Vulnerability
        14. Logging should not be vulnerable to injection attacks

           Vulnerability
        15. Server-side requests should not be vulnerable to forging attacks

           Vulnerability
        16. Server certificates should be verified during SSL/TLS connections

           Vulnerability
        17. Using weak hashing algorithms is security-sensitive

           Security Hotspot
        18. Delivering code in production with debug features activated is security-sensitive

           Security Hotspot
        19. Cryptographic keys should be robust

           Vulnerability
        20. Weak SSL/TLS protocols should not be used

           Vulnerability
        21. Searching OS commands in PATH is security-sensitive

           Security Hotspot
        22. Database queries should not be vulnerable to injection attacks

           Vulnerability
        23. Creating cookies without the "HttpOnly" flag is security-sensitive

           Security Hotspot
        24. Cipher Block Chaining IVs should be unpredictable

           Vulnerability
        25. Setting loose POSIX file permissions is security-sensitive

           Security Hotspot
        26. Using pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs) is security-sensitive

           Security Hotspot
        27. Creating cookies without the "secure" flag is security-sensitive

           Security Hotspot
        28. XPath expressions should not be vulnerable to injection attacks

           Vulnerability
        29. I/O function calls should not be vulnerable to path injection attacks

           Vulnerability
        30. Formatting SQL queries is security-sensitive

           Security Hotspot
        31. OS commands should not be vulnerable to command injection attacks

           Vulnerability
        32. Hard-coded credentials are security-sensitive

           Security Hotspot
        33. Password hashing functions should use an unpredictable salt

           Vulnerability
        34. All code should be reachable

           Bug
        35. "switch" statements should have "default" clauses

           Code Smell
        36. Useless "if(true) {...}" and "if(false){...}" blocks should be removed

           Bug
        37. Track uses of "TODO" tags

           Code Smell
        38. Track uses of "FIXME" tags

           Code Smell

        Useless "if(true) {...}" and "if(false){...}" blocks should be removed

        Bug
        • cwe

        Why is this an issue?

        More Info

        if statements with conditions that are always false have the effect of making blocks of code non-functional. if statements with conditions that are always true are completely redundant, and make the code less readable.

        There are three possible causes for the presence of such code:

        • An if statement was changed during debugging and that debug code has been committed.
        • Some value was left unset.
        • Some logic is not doing what the programmer thought it did.

        In any of these cases, unconditional if statements should be removed.

        Noncompliant code example

        if true {
        	doSomething()
        }
        
        if false {
        	doSomething()
        }
        

        Compliant solution

        doSomething();
        ...
        
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