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CWE-531: Inclusion of Sensitive Information in Test Code
What it is
Accessible test applications can pose a variety of security risks. Since developers or administrators rarely consider that someone besides themselves would even know about the existence of these applications, it is common for them to contain sensitive information or functions.
- Severity (our rating)
- Medium
- Likelihood of exploit
- Not rated by MITRE
- Introduced during
- Testing
- Exploited in the wild
- No CVE in CISA's catalog
What an attacker can do
- Read Application Data (Confidentiality)
How to prevent it
Distribution
- Remove test code before deploying the application into production.
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