Thrown exception reveals passwords ---------------------------------- Key: VFS-169 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VFS-169 Project: Commons VFS Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 1.0 Reporter: Joerg Schaible
If an exception occurs accessing a FileObject on a FileSystem that is addressed with an URL containing user and password the thrown exception contains the password as part of the error message: org.apache.commons.vfs.FileSystemException: Could not connect to SFTP server at "sftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/". In such a case the URL should be printed as "sftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/". Same applied to log messages - at least for INFO and higher. This is a security risk, since in big companies exceptions and logs are normally collected and archived in monitoring systems and may reveal the password to persons that have normally no authorization to the target system. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]