Hi,
thanks for the advice, but the safety of the Post isn't the problem.
Rather the safety of the customers data in the logfiles.

Cheers,
Thomas


Newman, John W schrieb:
> Yeah, it probably shouldn't log stripes:password values, but really that post 
> has to be under SSL or you're still open to much larger problems. 
> 
> Unencrypted Login Form/Password Sent in the Clear
> An unencrypted login form has been discovered. Any area of a web application 
> that possibly contains sensitive information or access to privileged 
> functionality such as remote site administration functionality should utilize 
> SSL or another form of encryption to prevent login information from being 
> sniffed or otherwise intercepted or stolen. A page containing a login form 
> should be SSL as well as the Action of the form. This will prevent 
> Man-in-the-Middle attacks on the login form. Recommendations include ensuring 
> that sensitive areas of your web application have proper encryption protocols 
> in place to prevent login information and other data that could be helpful to 
> an attacker from being intercepted.
> 
> SOLUTION
> For Security Operations:
> Ensure that sensitive areas of your web application have proper encryption 
> protocols in place to prevent login information and other data that could be 
> helpful to an attacker from being intercepted.
> 
> For Development:
> Ensure that sensitive areas of your web application have proper encryption 
> protocols in place to prevent login information and other data that could be 
> helpful to an attacker from being intercepted.
> 
> For QA:
> Test the application not only from the perspective of a normal user, but also 
> from the perspective of a malicious one.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Schlosser [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 3:17 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Stripes-users] Password Logging as plain text
> 
> Hi,
> I have found out that stripes logs the values(also values from 
> stipes-password-tag) as plain text, when the Validation-annotation is 
> used with the required-param.
> 2009-04-14 17:13:08,246 DEBUG [http-8080-Processor25] (Log.java:183) - 
> Checking required field: password, with values: [secret]
> 
> I think this is a security hole, therefore I wrote my own 
> ActionBeanPropertyBinder and removed the logging of the value.
> But isn't it a generally problem, which should be fixed in the 
> DefaultActionBeanPropertyBinder?
> 
> Cheers,
> Thomas
> 
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