CWE-538: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory
Description
The product places sensitive information into files or directories that are accessible to actors who are allowed to have access to the files, but not to the sensitive information.
Submission Date :
July 19, 2006, midnight
Modification Date :
2023-10-26 00:00:00+00:00
Organization :
MITRE
Example - 1
In the following code snippet, a user's full name and credit card number are written to a log file.logger.info("Username: " + usernme + ", CCN: " + ccn);
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