CWE-497Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere

Description

The product does not properly prevent sensitive system-level information from being accessed by unauthorized actors who do not have the same level of access to the underlying system as the product does.

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Common consequences

• Confidentiality→Read Application Data

Potential mitigations

• Architecture and Design,Implementation
  Production applications should never use methods that generate internal details such as stack traces and error messages unless that information is directly committed to a log that is not viewable by the end user. All error message text should be HTML entity encoded before being written to the log file to protect against potential cross-site scripting attacks against the viewer of the logs

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