COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATIONDraft

CWE-210

Self-generated Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

The product identifies an error condition and creates its own diagnostic or error messages that contain sensitive information.

Abstraction

Base

Structure

Simple

Likelihood of Exploit

Medium

Understand the problem

What is the problem?

The product identifies an error condition and creates its own diagnostic or error messages that contain sensitive information.

Root cause

How and when does the problem arise?

Lifecycle phase

Architecture and Design

Lifecycle phase

Implementation

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

Risk

What does successful exploitation lead to?

Read Application Data

Affected security scopes: Confidentiality

Defence

How is it prevented and fixed?

Implementation · Build and Compilation

Compilation or Build Hardening

Detail
Debugging information should not make its way into a production release.

Implementation · Build and Compilation

Environment Hardening

Detail
Debugging information should not make its way into a production release.