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== Sensitive Code Example

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Dim ip = "192.168.12.42" ' Sensitive
Dim address = IPAddress.Parse(ip)
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== Compliant Solution

[source,vbnet]
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Dim ip = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("myapplication.ip") ' Compliant
Dim address = IPAddress.Parse(ip)
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== Exceptions

No issue is reported for the following cases because they are not considered sensitive:

* Loopback addresses 127.0.0.0/8 in CIDR notation (from 127.0.0.0 to 127.255.255.255)
* Broadcast address 255.255.255.255
* Non-routable address 0.0.0.0
* Strings of the form ``++2.5.<number>.<number>++`` as they http://www.oid-info.com/introduction.htm[often match Object Identifiers] (OID)
* Addresses in the ranges 192.0.2.0/24, 198.51.100.0/24, 203.0.113.0/24, reserved for documentation purposes by https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5737[RFC 5737]
* Addresses in the range 2001:db8::/32, reserved for documentation purposes by https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3849[RFC 3849]

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