CWE-595

• CWE ID
• 595

• CWE Name
• Comparison of Object References Instead of Object Contents

• CWE Abstraction
• Variant

• CWE structure
• Simple

• CWE Status
• Incomplete

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

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