CWE-382: J2EE Bad Practices: Use of System.exit()
Description
A J2EE application uses System.exit(), which also shuts down its container.
Submission Date :
July 19, 2006, midnight
Modification Date :
2023-06-29 00:00:00+00:00
Organization :
MITRE
Extended Description
It is never a good idea for a web application to attempt to shut down the application container. Access to a function that can shut down the application is an avenue for Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.
Example Vulnerable Codes
Example - 1
Included in the doPost() method defined below is a call to System.exit() in the event of a specific exception.
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logger.error("Caught: " + ase.toString());System.exit(1);try {} catch (ApplicationSpecificException ase) {}Public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {}Related Weaknesses
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