Server-generated Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

Opis

Certain conditions, such as network failure, will cause a server error message to be displayed.

While error messages in and of themselves are not dangerous, per se, it is what an attacker can glean from them that might cause eventual problems.

Skutki

• Confidentiality

  Read Application Data

Zapobieganie

• Architecture and Design, System Configuration

  Recommendations include designing and adding consistent error handling mechanisms which are capable of handling any user input to your web application, providing meaningful detail to end-users, and preventing error messages that might provide information useful to an attacker from being displayed.

Słabość nadrzędna

• CWE-209 Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

Kiedy powstaje

• Implementation — REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.

Dotyczy

Not Language-Specific, Not Technology-Specific