CWE-209
AllowedGeneration of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information
Abstraction: Base · Status: Draft
The product generates an error message that includes sensitive information about its environment, users, or associated data.
833 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.
GHSA-742C-94R3-QW76
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 19:02 – Updated: 2022-05-24 19:02A vulnerability has been identified in Mendix Excel Importer Module (All versions < V9.0.3). Uploading a manipulated XML File results in an exception that could expose information about the Application-Server and the used XML-Framework.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2021-31339"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-209"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2021-05-12T14:15:00Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "A vulnerability has been identified in Mendix Excel Importer Module (All versions \u003c V9.0.3). Uploading a manipulated XML File results in an exception that could expose information about the Application-Server and the used XML-Framework.",
"id": "GHSA-742c-94r3-qw76",
"modified": "2022-05-24T19:02:14Z",
"published": "2022-05-24T19:02:14Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-31339"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-854248.pdf"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-21-131-09"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": []
}
GHSA-742P-RH42-XG84
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-11-07 09:30 – Updated: 2024-11-07 09:30HCL BigFix Compliance is vulnerable to the generation of error messages containing sensitive information. Detailed error messages can provide enticement information or expose information about its environment, users, or associated data.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2024-30141"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-209"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2024-11-07T09:15:03Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "HCL BigFix Compliance is vulnerable to the generation of error messages containing sensitive information. Detailed error messages can provide enticement information or expose information about its environment, users, or associated data.",
"id": "GHSA-742p-rh42-xg84",
"modified": "2024-11-07T09:30:42Z",
"published": "2024-11-07T09:30:42Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-30141"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article\u0026sysparm_article=KB0117197"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-74MV-JM52-5VHC
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-01-22 21:31 – Updated: 2024-03-07 18:30IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes Db2 Connect Server) 11.5 is vulnerable to an insecure cryptographic algorithm and to information disclosure in stack trace under exceptional conditions. IBM X-Force ID: 270730.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2023-47152"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-209"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2024-01-22T20:15:46Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes Db2 Connect Server) 11.5 is vulnerable to an insecure cryptographic algorithm and to information disclosure in stack trace under exceptional conditions. IBM X-Force ID: 270730.",
"id": "GHSA-74mv-jm52-5vhc",
"modified": "2024-03-07T18:30:27Z",
"published": "2024-01-22T21:31:07Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-47152"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/270730"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240307-0001"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7105605"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-74V8-FV3X-8RQ3
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-02-26 18:30 – Updated: 2025-02-26 18:30MET ONE 3400+ instruments running software v1.0.41 can, under rare conditions, temporarily store credentials in plain text within the system. This data is not available to unauthenticated users.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-0941"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-209"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2025-02-26T17:15:21Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "MET ONE 3400+ instruments running software v1.0.41 can, under rare conditions, temporarily store credentials in plain text within the system. This data is not available to unauthenticated users.",
"id": "GHSA-74v8-fv3x-8rq3",
"modified": "2025-02-26T18:30:39Z",
"published": "2025-02-26T18:30:39Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-0941"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.beckman.com/about-us/compliance/coordinated-vulnerability-disclosure/product-security-updates"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-754W-9JQ2-JM5G
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-06-20 21:32 – Updated: 2025-06-26 18:31In HotelDruid 3.0.7, an unauthenticated attacker can exploit verbose SQL error messages on creadb.php before the 'create database' button is pressed. By sending malformed POST requests to this endpoint, the attacker may obtain the administrator username, password hash, and salt. In some cases, the attack results in a Denial of Service (DoS), preventing the administrator from logging in even with the correct credentials.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-44203"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-209"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2025-06-20T16:15:28Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "In HotelDruid 3.0.7, an unauthenticated attacker can exploit verbose SQL error messages on creadb.php before the \u0027create database\u0027 button is pressed. By sending malformed POST requests to this endpoint, the attacker may obtain the administrator username, password hash, and salt. In some cases, the attack results in a Denial of Service (DoS), preventing the administrator from logging in even with the correct credentials.",
"id": "GHSA-754w-9jq2-jm5g",
"modified": "2025-06-26T18:31:22Z",
"published": "2025-06-20T21:32:06Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-44203"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/IvanT7D3/CVE-2025-44203/tree/main"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.hoteldruid.com"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-75W9-V43P-RHCQ
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-03-02 00:31 – Updated: 2023-03-10 03:30IBM Financial Transaction Manager for Digital Payments for Multi-Platform 3.2.0 through 3.2.7 could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information when a detailed technical error message is returned in the browser. This information could be used in further attacks against the system. IBM X-Force ID: 193662.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2020-5026"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-209"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2023-03-01T22:15:00Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "IBM Financial Transaction Manager for Digital Payments for Multi-Platform 3.2.0 through 3.2.7 could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information when a detailed technical error message is returned in the browser. This information could be used in further attacks against the system. IBM X-Force ID: 193662.",
"id": "GHSA-75w9-v43p-rhcq",
"modified": "2023-03-10T03:30:14Z",
"published": "2023-03-02T00:31:07Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5026"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/193662"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6958504"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-75XF-HVRH-9RVC
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-09-04 21:31 – Updated: 2025-09-05 21:32In writeContent of RemotePrintDocument.java, there is a possible information disclosure due to a logic error. This could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is needed for exploitation.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-48562"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-209"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2025-09-04T19:15:43Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "In writeContent of RemotePrintDocument.java, there is a possible information disclosure due to a logic error. This could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is needed for exploitation.",
"id": "GHSA-75xf-hvrh-9rvc",
"modified": "2025-09-05T21:32:37Z",
"published": "2025-09-04T21:31:38Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48562"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/252efec89b01a89b4d394c500e9dae2b6c08dbae"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2025-09-01"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-76W7-PXX7-5V24
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-08-20 09:30 – Updated: 2025-11-05 15:31Information disclosure vulnerability in error handling in MiR software prior to version 3.0.0 allows unauthenticated attackers to view detailed error information, such as file paths and other data, via access to verbose error pages.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-9229"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-209"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2025-08-20T09:15:29Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "Information disclosure vulnerability in error handling in MiR software prior to version 3.0.0 allows unauthenticated attackers to view detailed error information, such as file paths and other data, via access to verbose error pages.",
"id": "GHSA-76w7-pxx7-5v24",
"modified": "2025-11-05T15:31:02Z",
"published": "2025-08-20T09:30:42Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9229"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://a.storyblok.com/f/230581/x/34a075d078/msa-17.pdf"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://mobile-industrial-robots.com/security-advisories/information-disclosure"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://supportportal.mobile-industrial-robots.com/documentation/mir-cybersecurity-guide/mir-cybersecurity-guide"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-772G-9PC9-6MMJ
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-08-28 15:30 – Updated: 2024-04-04 07:14User enumeration is found in PHPJabbers Food Delivery Script v3.1. This issue occurs during password recovery, where a difference in messages could allow an attacker to determine if the user is valid or not, enabling a brute force attack with valid users.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2023-40757"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-209"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2023-08-28T13:15:10Z",
"severity": "CRITICAL"
},
"details": "User enumeration is found in PHPJabbers Food Delivery Script v3.1. This issue occurs during password recovery, where a difference in messages could allow an attacker to determine if the user is valid or not, enabling a brute force attack with valid users.",
"id": "GHSA-772g-9pc9-6mmj",
"modified": "2024-04-04T07:14:20Z",
"published": "2023-08-28T15:30:17Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40757"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://medium.com/%40mfortinsec/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-phpjabbers-part-3-40fc3565982f"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://medium.com/@mfortinsec/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-phpjabbers-part-3-40fc3565982f"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.phpjabbers.com/food-delivery-script"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-7732-95PG-6PP9
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 19:03 – Updated: 2022-05-24 19:03IBM Jazz Foundation and IBM Engineering products could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information when an error message is returned in the browser. This information could be used in further attacks against the system. IBM X-Force ID: 195516.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2021-20371"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-209"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2021-06-02T21:15:00Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "IBM Jazz Foundation and IBM Engineering products could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information when an error message is returned in the browser. This information could be used in further attacks against the system. IBM X-Force ID: 195516.",
"id": "GHSA-7732-95pg-6pp9",
"modified": "2022-05-24T19:03:49Z",
"published": "2022-05-24T19:03:49Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20371"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/195516"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6457739"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": []
}
Mitigation MIT-39
- Ensure that error messages only contain minimal details that are useful to the intended audience and no one else. The messages need to strike the balance between being too cryptic (which can confuse users) or being too detailed (which may reveal more than intended). The messages should not reveal the methods that were used to determine the error. Attackers can use detailed information to refine or optimize their original attack, thereby increasing their chances of success.
- If errors must be captured in some detail, record them in log messages, but consider what could occur if the log messages can be viewed by attackers. Highly sensitive information such as passwords should never be saved to log files.
- Avoid inconsistent messaging that might accidentally tip off an attacker about internal state, such as whether a user account exists or not.
Mitigation
Handle exceptions internally and do not display errors containing potentially sensitive information to a user.
Mitigation MIT-33
Strategy: Attack Surface Reduction
Use naming conventions and strong types to make it easier to spot when sensitive data is being used. When creating structures, objects, or other complex entities, separate the sensitive and non-sensitive data as much as possible.
Mitigation MIT-40
Strategy: Compilation or Build Hardening
Debugging information should not make its way into a production release.
Mitigation MIT-40
Strategy: Environment Hardening
Debugging information should not make its way into a production release.
Mitigation
Where available, configure the environment to use less verbose error messages. For example, in PHP, disable the display_errors setting during configuration, or at runtime using the error_reporting() function.
Mitigation
Create default error pages or messages that do not leak any information.
CAPEC-215: Fuzzing for application mapping
An attacker sends random, malformed, or otherwise unexpected messages to a target application and observes the application's log or error messages returned. The attacker does not initially know how a target will respond to individual messages but by attempting a large number of message variants they may find a variant that trigger's desired behavior. In this attack, the purpose of the fuzzing is to observe the application's log and error messages, although fuzzing a target can also sometimes cause the target to enter an unstable state, causing a crash.
CAPEC-463: Padding Oracle Crypto Attack
An adversary is able to efficiently decrypt data without knowing the decryption key if a target system leaks data on whether or not a padding error happened while decrypting the ciphertext. A target system that leaks this type of information becomes the padding oracle and an adversary is able to make use of that oracle to efficiently decrypt data without knowing the decryption key by issuing on average 128*b calls to the padding oracle (where b is the number of bytes in the ciphertext block). In addition to performing decryption, an adversary is also able to produce valid ciphertexts (i.e., perform encryption) by using the padding oracle, all without knowing the encryption key.
CAPEC-54: Query System for Information
An adversary, aware of an application's location (and possibly authorized to use the application), probes an application's structure and evaluates its robustness by submitting requests and examining responses. Often, this is accomplished by sending variants of expected queries in the hope that these modified queries might return information beyond what the expected set of queries would provide.
CAPEC-7: Blind SQL Injection
Blind SQL Injection results from an insufficient mitigation for SQL Injection. Although suppressing database error messages are considered best practice, the suppression alone is not sufficient to prevent SQL Injection. Blind SQL Injection is a form of SQL Injection that overcomes the lack of error messages. Without the error messages that facilitate SQL Injection, the adversary constructs input strings that probe the target through simple Boolean SQL expressions. The adversary can determine if the syntax and structure of the injection was successful based on whether the query was executed or not. Applied iteratively, the adversary determines how and where the target is vulnerable to SQL Injection.