The product uses hard-coded constants instead of symbolic names for security-critical values, which increases the likelihood of mistakes during code maintenance or security policy change.
If the developer does not find all occurrences of the hard-coded constants, an incorrect policy decision may be made if one of the constants is not changed. Making changes to these values will require code changes that may be difficult or impossible once the system is released to the field. In addition, these hard-coded values may become available to attackers if the code is ever disclosed.
Threat Mapped score: 0.0
Industry: Finiancial
Threat priority: Unclassified
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Intro: The usage of symbolic names instead of hard-coded constants is preferred.
Body: The following is an example of using a hard-coded constant instead of a symbolic name.
char buffer[1024]; ... fgets(buffer, 1024, stdin);