Call to System.IO.Path.Combine¶
ID: cs/path-combine
Kind: problem
Security severity:
Severity: recommendation
Precision: very-high
Tags:
- reliability
Query suites:
- csharp-security-and-quality.qls
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Path.Combine may silently drop its earlier arguments if its later arguments are absolute paths. E.g. Path.Combine("C:\\Users\\Me\\Documents", "C:\\Program Files\\") == "C:\\Program Files".
Recommendation¶
Use Path.Join instead.
References¶
Microsoft Learn, .NET API browser, Path.Combine.
Microsoft Learn, .NET API browser, Path.Join.
