COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATIONDeprecated

CWE-542

DEPRECATED: Information Exposure Through Cleanup Log Files

This entry has been deprecated because its abstraction was too low-level. See CWE-532.

Abstraction

Variant

Structure

Simple

Likelihood of Exploit

Medium

Understand the problem

What is the problem?

This entry has been deprecated because its abstraction was too low-level. See CWE-532.

Defence

How is it prevented and fixed?

  • Follow secure coding guidelines for input handling and boundary checking.
  • Enforce strict security reviews and automated static analysis (SAST) checks.