diff --git a/cpp/ql/src/Best Practices/Likely Errors/Slicing.ql b/cpp/ql/src/Best Practices/Likely Errors/Slicing.ql
index 31aa60c5074..3ba420c56f1 100644
--- a/cpp/ql/src/Best Practices/Likely Errors/Slicing.ql	
+++ b/cpp/ql/src/Best Practices/Likely Errors/Slicing.ql	
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@
  * @tags reliability
  *       correctness
  *       types
- *       security
- *       external/cwe/cwe-843
  */
 import cpp
 
diff --git a/cpp/ql/src/Likely Bugs/Format/TooManyFormatArguments.ql b/cpp/ql/src/Likely Bugs/Format/TooManyFormatArguments.ql
index 579fa6b870b..4c06b13630b 100644
--- a/cpp/ql/src/Likely Bugs/Format/TooManyFormatArguments.ql	
+++ b/cpp/ql/src/Likely Bugs/Format/TooManyFormatArguments.ql	
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
  * @id cpp/too-many-format-arguments
  * @tags reliability
  *       correctness
- *       security
  */
 import cpp