BADFUNC.AFXPARSEURL : Use of AfxParseURL

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A use of AfxParseURL(), which has security problems due to its inability to handle certain legal URLs.

Class Name

Use of AfxParseURL

Significance

style

Mnemonic

BADFUNC.AFXPARSEURL

Categories

CWE	CWE:676	Use of Potentially Dangerous Function
BSI	BSI:AfxParseURL	Use of AfxParseURL

Availability

Available for C and C++.

Enabling

Checks for this warning class are disabled by default. To enable them, add the following WARNING_FILTER rule to the project configuration file.

WARNING_FILTER += allow class="Use of AfxParseURL"

To enable all BSI-related classes, including all BSI-specific BADFUNC classes, use the bsi configuration preset.

Use AfxParseURLEx() instead.

To include an additional function or set of functions in the checks for this class, create a new set of BAD_FUNCTION_* rules in which the BAD_FUNCTION_REGEX setting matches the function or set of functions you want to check and the remaining rules match those in the other sets for this class.

To remove a function or set of functions from the checks for this class, edit the configuration file to comment out the corresponding set of BAD_FUNCTION_* rules.

The following configuration file parameters affect checks for this warning class.

BADFUNC.AFXPARSEURL : Use of AfxParseURL

Summary

Properties

Resolution

Relevant Configuration File Parameters