diff --git a/infer/src/checkers/uninit.ml b/infer/src/checkers/uninit.ml
index 7af372c61..9b763a2f9 100644
--- a/infer/src/checkers/uninit.ml
+++ b/infer/src/checkers/uninit.ml
@@ -195,6 +195,15 @@ module TransferFunctions (CFG : ProcCfg.S) = struct
         acc
 
 
+  (* true if a function initializes at least a param or a field of a struct param *)
+  let function_initializes_some_formal_params pdesc call =
+    match Summary.read_summary pdesc call with
+    | Some {pre= initialized_formal_params; post= _} ->
+        not (D.is_empty initialized_formal_params)
+    | _ ->
+        false
+
+
   let exec_instr (astate: Domain.astate) {ProcData.pdesc; ProcData.extras; ProcData.tenv} _
       (instr: HilInstr.t) =
     let update_prepost (((_, lhs_typ), apl) as lhs_ap) rhs =
@@ -232,8 +241,18 @@ module TransferFunctions (CFG : ProcCfg.S) = struct
     | Call (_, Direct callee_pname, _, _, _)
       when Typ.Procname.equal callee_pname BuiltinDecl.objc_cpp_throw ->
         {astate with uninit_vars= D.empty}
-    | Call (_, HilInstr.Direct call, _, _, _) when is_dummy_constructor_of_a_struct call ->
-        astate
+    | Call (_, HilInstr.Direct call, [(HilExp.AccessExpression AddressOf Base base)], _, _)
+      when is_dummy_constructor_of_a_struct call ->
+        (* if it's a default constructor, we use the following heuristic: we assume that it initializes 
+    correctly all fields when there is an implementation of the constructor that initilizes at least one
+    field. If there is no explicit implementation we cannot assume fields are initialized *)
+        if function_initializes_some_formal_params pdesc call then
+          let uninit_vars' =
+            (* in HIL/SIL the default constructor has only one param: the struct *)
+            remove_all_fields tenv base astate.uninit_vars
+          in
+          {astate with uninit_vars= uninit_vars'}
+        else astate
     | Call (_, HilInstr.Direct call, actuals, _, loc) ->
         (* in case of intraprocedural only analysis we assume that parameters passed by reference
            to a function will be initialized inside that function *)
diff --git a/infer/tests/codetoanalyze/cpp/uninit/default_constr.cpp b/infer/tests/codetoanalyze/cpp/uninit/default_constr.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8befcae8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/infer/tests/codetoanalyze/cpp/uninit/default_constr.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2018 - present Facebook, Inc.
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the BSD style license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant
+ * of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
+ */
+#include <string>
+
+struct InitializingStruct {
+  size_t match1;
+  size_t count1;
+
+  InitializingStruct();
+};
+
+InitializingStruct::InitializingStruct() : match1(0), count1(0) {}
+
+struct SemiInitializingStruct {
+  size_t match1;
+  size_t count1;
+
+  SemiInitializingStruct();
+};
+
+SemiInitializingStruct::SemiInitializingStruct() : match1(0) {}
+
+struct NonInitializingStruct {
+  size_t match1;
+  size_t count1;
+};
+
+void foo(size_t, size_t){};
+
+void init_OK() {
+  InitializingStruct s;
+
+  foo(s.count1, s.match1);
+}
+
+void FN_init() {
+  SemiInitializingStruct s;
+
+  foo(s.count1, s.match1);
+}
+
+void init_bad() {
+  NonInitializingStruct s;
+
+  foo(s.count1, s.match1);
+}
diff --git a/infer/tests/codetoanalyze/cpp/uninit/issues.exp b/infer/tests/codetoanalyze/cpp/uninit/issues.exp
index d04eb18dd..f346faa84 100644
--- a/infer/tests/codetoanalyze/cpp/uninit/issues.exp
+++ b/infer/tests/codetoanalyze/cpp/uninit/issues.exp
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+codetoanalyze/cpp/uninit/default_constr.cpp, init_bad, 3, UNINITIALIZED_VALUE, ERROR, []
+codetoanalyze/cpp/uninit/default_constr.cpp, init_bad, 3, UNINITIALIZED_VALUE, ERROR, []
 codetoanalyze/cpp/uninit/members.cpp, access_members_bad, 4, UNINITIALIZED_VALUE, ERROR, []
 codetoanalyze/cpp/uninit/members.cpp, access_members_bad2, 4, UNINITIALIZED_VALUE, ERROR, []
 codetoanalyze/cpp/uninit/members.cpp, access_members_bad3, 4, UNINITIALIZED_VALUE, ERROR, []