Description

Confidential information is stored in plain text allowing an attacker to view it without any type of encryption.

Impact

Obtain sensitive information that may compromise system resources.

Recommendation

Encrypt all sensitive information that is transported or stored within the application according to the organizations policies.

Threat

Anonymous attacker with access to the source-code from the Internet.

Expected Remediation Time

⏱️ 90 minutes.

Details

Why

When secret credentials are compromised, we always generate a vulnerability report either the credentials are mocks, or are functional only in specific scenarios such as local environments. The risk of this scenario is usually considered in the severity tab. For local environment credentials the risk is low but not zero.

Hence to solve this vulnerability we recommend to remove the credentials from the source code, change the compromised credentials and ideally remove the credentials from the git log. In some cases the last recommendation cannot be applied to avoid traceability issues. If that's the case, in addition to removing the credentials from the code, we require a customer confirmation that the credentials were changed to close the vulnerability.

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