S1313 false positive on hardcoded IPs from the exception list

Hey :slight_smile:,
Using SonarQube v9.8 (build 63668), I’m getting the phpsecurity:S1313 security-vulnerability warning on the following code:

        yield ["255.255.255.255", true];
        yield ["2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000", true];

But these are listed in the Exceptions list of this rule:

Exceptions

No issue is reported for the following cases because they are not considered sensitive:

  • Broadcast address 255.255.255.255
  • Addresses in the range 2001:db8::/32, reserved for documentation purposes by RFC 3849

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Yes I’ve marked the issue as a falsepositive in our SQ environment.
The rule itself is not that noisy, because we mostly stick with 127 ranges in unittests, which are correctly excluded. But in this particular test I needed more test IPs.

Hello @bram123,

indeed, this is not the expected behavior. It seems we removed the two addresses from the exception logic the last time we touched the rule. I created a ticket to address the false positives.

Best,
Nils

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