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CWE-526: Information Leak Through Environmental Variables

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Information Leak Through Environmental Variables
Status: Incomplete
Weakness ID: 526 (Weakness Variant)
Description
Summary

Environmental variables may contain sensitive information about a remote server.

Potential Mitigations

Protect information stored in environment variable from being exposed to the user.

Relationships
NatureTypeIDNameView(s) this relationship pertains toView(s)
ChildOfWeakness ClassWeakness ClassWeakness Class200Information Leak (Information Disclosure)
Development Concepts (primary)699
Research Concepts (primary)1000
Time of Introduction
* Architecture and Design
* Implementation
* Operation
Content History
Modifications
Eric Dalci. Cigital. 2008-07-01. (External)
updated Potential_Mitigations, Time_of_Introduction
CWE Content Team. MITRE. 2008-09-08. (Internal)
updated Relationships
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