Debugging enabled in production

Description

The system has the debug mode active which generates an information leak when an error is generated.

Impact

Obtain sensitive information such as stacktraces and versions of the systems used.

Recommendation

Make sure that debugging mode is not enabled in the production environment and remove statements or portions of code that are executing in debugging mode.

Threat

External attacker with access to the application.

Expected Remediation Time

⌚ minutes.

Score

Default score using CVSS 3.1. It may change depending on the context of the src.

Base

• Attack vector: N
• Attack complexity: L
• Privileges required: L
• User interaction: N
• Scope: U
• Confidentiality: L
• Integrity: N
• Availability: N

Temporal

• Exploit code madurity: X
• Remediation level: X
• Report confidence: X

Result

• Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:X/RL:X/RC:X
• Score:
  • Base: 4.3
  • Temporal: 4.3
• Severity:
  • Base: Medium
  • Temporal: Medium

Requirements

• 077.Avoid disclosing technical information
• 078.Disable debugging events

Fixes

• Ruby
• Go
• Elixir
• Dart
• Swift
• Java
• PHP
• Python
• C-Sharp
• Scala

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