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Severity

Likelihood

Remediation Cost

Priority

Level

MET14- J

medium

unlikely

medium

P4

L3

Automated Detection

TODOThe Coverity Prevent Version 5.0 MUTABLE_COMPARISON checker can detect the instances where compareTo method is reading from a non constant field. If the non-constant field is modified, the value of compareTo might change, which may break program invariants.

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