CWE-482

Comparing instead of Assigning

Variant

Draft

The code uses an operator for comparison when the intention was to perform an assignment.

In many languages, the compare statement is very close in appearance to the assignment statement; they are often confused.

Parent Weaknesses (ChildOf)

Scope

Availability

Integrity

Impact

Unexpected State

Testing

Many IDEs and static analysis products will detect this problem.

C++

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