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.
900 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.
GHSA-Q8F6-8CJ7-HXQF
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-09-01 12:31 – Updated: 2026-09-01 12:31An Apache-proxied Dogtag CA REST endpoint exposed by IdM (POST /ca/rest/certrequests) returns HTTP 500 with internal Java stack traces for unauthenticated malformed requests. The same unauthenticated error path emits large multi-line stack traces into the CA debug log, creating a log-amplification resource exhaustion vector (disk growth and I/O contention) without requiring authentication.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2026-11873"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-209"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2026-09-01T12:17:35Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "An Apache-proxied Dogtag CA REST endpoint exposed by IdM (POST /ca/rest/certrequests) returns HTTP 500 with internal Java stack traces for unauthenticated malformed requests. The same unauthenticated error path emits large multi-line stack traces into the CA debug log, creating a log-amplification resource exhaustion vector (disk growth and I/O contention) without requiring authentication.",
"id": "GHSA-q8f6-8cj7-hxqf",
"modified": "2026-09-01T12:31:49Z",
"published": "2026-09-01T12:31:49Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-11873"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-11873"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2487505"
}
],
"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:L",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-Q97C-VHWV-V5W3
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-09-25 03:30 – Updated: 2026-04-08 18:33The Community by PeepSo – Social Network, Membership, Registration, User Profiles plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Full Path Disclosure in all versions up to, and including, 6.4.6.0. This is due to the plugin displaying errors and allowing direct access to the sse.php file. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve the full path of the web application, which can be used to aid other attacks. The information displayed is not useful on its own, and requires another vulnerability to be present for damage to an affected website.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2024-7426"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-200",
"CWE-209"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2024-09-25T03:15:03Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "The Community by PeepSo \u2013 Social Network, Membership, Registration, User Profiles plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Full Path Disclosure in all versions up to, and including, 6.4.6.0. This is due to the plugin displaying errors and allowing direct access to the sse.php file. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve the full path of the web application, which can be used to aid other attacks. The information displayed is not useful on its own, and requires another vulnerability to be present for damage to an affected website.",
"id": "GHSA-q97c-vhwv-v5w3",
"modified": "2026-04-08T18:33:36Z",
"published": "2024-09-25T03:30:36Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7426"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/peepso-core/tags/6.4.6.1/sse.php?rev=3157925"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/peepso-core/#developers"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2e69d666-50de-4c82-9ad4-9ed40fcc7218?source=cve"
}
],
"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-Q9XM-V767-X65C
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 17:19 – Updated: 2024-04-04 02:54Inappropriate implementation in accessibility in Google Chrome prior to 74.0.3729.108 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML page.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2020-6503"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-200",
"CWE-209"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2020-06-03T23:15:00Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "Inappropriate implementation in accessibility in Google Chrome prior to 74.0.3729.108 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML page.",
"id": "GHSA-q9xm-v767-x65c",
"modified": "2024-04-04T02:54:18Z",
"published": "2022-05-24T17:19:24Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6503"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_23.html"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://crbug.com/639322"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-QCR8-X557-7CP3
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-02 19:03 – Updated: 2026-07-02 19:03Finding
Location: core/src/core/scheduler.ts:23, core/src/hooks/dispatcher.ts:100, core/src/client/graphql.ts:71
Several console.warn calls are not gated behind __DEV__ and will fire in production builds, potentially exposing internal framework state such as queue sizes, component names, and query fragments to users viewing the browser console.
Status
Open — These warnings serve as development-time diagnostics. They do not expose credentials or PII, but may reveal internal architecture details.
Recommendation
Gate all development-time console.warn and console.error calls behind process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production' or a __DEV__ constant that build tools can tree-shake.
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"affected": [
{
"database_specific": {
"last_known_affected_version_range": "\u003c= 0.2.137"
},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "npm",
"name": "@asymmetric-effort/specifyjs"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "0.2.140"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
]
}
],
"aliases": [],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-209"
],
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2026-07-02T19:03:10Z",
"nvd_published_at": null,
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "## Finding\n\n**Location**: `core/src/core/scheduler.ts:23`, `core/src/hooks/dispatcher.ts:100`, `core/src/client/graphql.ts:71`\n\nSeveral `console.warn` calls are not gated behind `__DEV__` and will fire in production builds, potentially exposing internal framework state such as queue sizes, component names, and query fragments to users viewing the browser console.\n\n## Status\n\n**Open** \u2014 These warnings serve as development-time diagnostics. They do not expose credentials or PII, but may reveal internal architecture details.\n\n## Recommendation\n\nGate all development-time `console.warn` and `console.error` calls behind `process.env.NODE_ENV !== \u0027production\u0027` or a `__DEV__` constant that build tools can tree-shake.",
"id": "GHSA-qcr8-x557-7cp3",
"modified": "2026-07-02T19:03:11Z",
"published": "2026-07-02T19:03:10Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/asymmetric-effort/specifyjs/security/advisories/GHSA-qcr8-x557-7cp3"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/asymmetric-effort/specifyjs/commit/2ef791bc73ead853efd0c227ad8228bc594a7b63"
},
{
"type": "PACKAGE",
"url": "https://github.com/asymmetric-effort/specifyjs"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
"type": "CVSS_V4"
}
],
"summary": "@asymmetric-effort/specifyjs: Production console warnings may leak internal framework state"
}
GHSA-QG6G-CX48-8J37
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-01-21 06:30 – Updated: 2025-01-21 06:30The 1003 Mortgage Application plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Full Path Disclosure in all versions up to, and including, 1.87. This is due the /inc/class/fnm/export.php file being publicly accessible with error logging enabled. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve the full path of the web application, which can be used to aid other attacks. The information displayed is not useful on its own, and requires another vulnerability to be present for damage to an affected website.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2024-13536"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-209"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2025-01-21T05:15:07Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "The 1003 Mortgage Application plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Full Path Disclosure in all versions up to, and including, 1.87. This is due the /inc/class/fnm/export.php file being publicly accessible with error logging enabled. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve the full path of the web application, which can be used to aid other attacks. The information displayed is not useful on its own, and requires another vulnerability to be present for damage to an affected website.",
"id": "GHSA-qg6g-cx48-8j37",
"modified": "2025-01-21T06:30:45Z",
"published": "2025-01-21T06:30:45Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13536"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/1003-mortgage-application/trunk/inc/class/fnm/export.php"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cfbc90b9-af91-49ac-ad3d-a37c17e8ba6d?source=cve"
}
],
"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-QH32-C3PP-X33G
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 19:19 – Updated: 2022-05-24 19:19A vulnerability in the web-based dashboard of Cisco Umbrella could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform an email enumeration attack against the Umbrella infrastructure. This vulnerability is due to an overly descriptive error message on the dashboard that appears when a user attempts to modify their email address when the new address already exists in the system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by attempting to modify the user's email address. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to enumerate email addresses of users in the system.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2021-40126"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-209"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2021-11-04T16:15:00Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "A vulnerability in the web-based dashboard of Cisco Umbrella could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform an email enumeration attack against the Umbrella infrastructure. This vulnerability is due to an overly descriptive error message on the dashboard that appears when a user attempts to modify their email address when the new address already exists in the system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by attempting to modify the user\u0027s email address. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to enumerate email addresses of users in the system.",
"id": "GHSA-qh32-c3pp-x33g",
"modified": "2022-05-24T19:19:45Z",
"published": "2022-05-24T19:19:45Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-40126"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-umbrella-user-enum-S7XfJwDE"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": []
}
GHSA-QH5X-8Q5J-WHHF
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-01-23 21:30 – Updated: 2026-01-26 18:31A vulnerability in the PHP backend of gemsloyalty.aptsys.com.sg thru 2025-05-28 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger detailed error messages that disclose internal file paths, code snippets, and stack traces. This occurs when specially crafted HTTP GET/POST requests are sent to public API endpoints, exposing potentially sensitive information useful for further exploitation. This issue is classified under CWE-209: Information Exposure Through an Error Message.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-52022"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-209"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2026-01-23T21:15:49Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "A vulnerability in the PHP backend of gemsloyalty.aptsys.com.sg thru 2025-05-28 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger detailed error messages that disclose internal file paths, code snippets, and stack traces. This occurs when specially crafted HTTP GET/POST requests are sent to public API endpoints, exposing potentially sensitive information useful for further exploitation. This issue is classified under CWE-209: Information Exposure Through an Error Message.",
"id": "GHSA-qh5x-8q5j-whhf",
"modified": "2026-01-26T18:31:29Z",
"published": "2026-01-23T21:30:43Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-52022"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://gist.github.com/ReverseThatApp/4a6be2b9b2ba39d38c35c8753e0afd39"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://aptsys.com"
}
],
"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-QH6W-FR9V-2742
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-27 15:32 – Updated: 2026-07-27 15:32Ericsson Packet Core Controller (PCC) versions prior to 1.39 contain a vulnerability in Configuration Management, allowing an attacker to execute specifically crafted commands to reveal system secret through error messages.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-59177"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-209"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2026-07-27T15:16:45Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "Ericsson Packet Core Controller (PCC) versions prior to 1.39 contain a vulnerability in Configuration Management, allowing an attacker to execute specifically crafted commands to reveal system secret through error messages.",
"id": "GHSA-qh6w-fr9v-2742",
"modified": "2026-07-27T15:32:31Z",
"published": "2026-07-27T15:32:31Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59177"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.ericsson.com/en/about-us/security/psirt/security-bulletin-pcc-july-2026"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X",
"type": "CVSS_V4"
}
]
}
GHSA-QHM5-6Q48-XXP4
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-04-25 18:30 – Updated: 2024-04-04 03:40No exception handling vulnerability which revealed sensitive or excessive information to users.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2023-23837"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-209",
"CWE-755"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2023-04-25T18:15:09Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "No exception handling vulnerability which revealed sensitive or excessive information to users.",
"id": "GHSA-qhm5-6q48-xxp4",
"modified": "2024-04-04T03:40:47Z",
"published": "2023-04-25T18:30:23Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-23837"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/dpa/content/release_notes/dpa_2023-2_release_notes.htm"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/cve-2023-23837"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-QJP6-CP7G-V8XV
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-01-25 15:30 – Updated: 2025-08-13 18:31IBM Cloud Pak System 2.3.3.0, 2.3.3.3, 2.3.3.3 iFix1, 2.3.3.4, 2.3.3.5, 2.3.3.6, 2.3.3.6 iFix1, 2.3.3.6 iFix2, 2.3.3.7, and 2.3.3.7 iFix1 could disclose sensitive information about the system that could aid in further attacks against the system.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2023-38714"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-209"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2025-01-25T14:15:28Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "IBM Cloud Pak System 2.3.3.0, 2.3.3.3, 2.3.3.3 iFix1, 2.3.3.4, 2.3.3.5, 2.3.3.6, 2.3.3.6 iFix1, 2.3.3.6 iFix2, 2.3.3.7, and 2.3.3.7 iFix1\u00a0could disclose sensitive information about the system that could aid in further attacks against the system.",
"id": "GHSA-qjp6-cp7g-v8xv",
"modified": "2025-08-13T18:31:11Z",
"published": "2025-01-25T15:30:31Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-38714"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7159533"
}
],
"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"
}
]
}
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.