diff --git a/general/security/security-engineer.md b/general/security/security-engineer.md
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--- a/general/security/security-engineer.md
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@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ Quality Engineer notifies Security Engineer that the testing environments are re
   * The `pre.gitlab.com` environment.
   * Locally via the docker images of the built packages at https://dev.gitlab.org/gitlab/omnibus-gitlab/container_registry
     * i.e. `docker pull dev.gitlab.org:5005/gitlab/omnibus-gitlab/gitlab-ee:X.X.X-ee.0`
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+* If a fix has known weaknesses (a cleaner long term solution is planned but cannot be implemented right now), try to find a flaw that would allow an attacker to bypass the current patch
 * Verify fixes on all backports on environments provided by Quality.
 * Once validated, assign the issue back to the release manager(s) and notify them that the fixes are ready to be published.