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Comparison of Object References Instead of Object Contents

CWE-595 · Variant · Incomplete

The product compares object references instead of the contents of the objects themselves, preventing it from detecting equivalent objects.

Extended description

For example, in Java, comparing objects using == usually produces deceptive results, since the == operator compares object references rather than values.

often, this means that using == for strings is actually comparing the strings' references, not their values.

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