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False positive

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
15/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Domain
security

Research direction

Start with the false-positive report template in the issue body. A useful investigation would need the omitted description, a code sample or source link, and optionally the GitHub code-scanning alert URL; the issue is ready for work only once the affected query and reproducible alert are identified.

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Description

false-positive

Description of the false positive

Code samples or links to source code

URL to the alert on GitHub code scanning (optional)

Dominant language
CodeQL
Stars
10.1k
Forks
2.1k
Avg merge
2d 16h
Merged PRs (30d)
143

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