CWE-550

Server-generated Error Message Containing Sensitive Information
AI Translation Available

Certain conditions, such as network failure, will cause a server error message to be displayed.

Status
incomplete
Abstraction
variant

While error messages in and of themselves are not dangerous, per se, it is what an attacker can glean from them that might cause eventual problems.

Common Consequences

confidentiality
Impacts
read application data

Potential Mitigations

Phases:
architecture and design system configuration
Descriptions:
• Recommendations include designing and adding consistent error handling mechanisms which are capable of handling any user input to your web application, providing meaningful detail to end-users, and preventing error messages that might provide information useful to an attacker from being displayed.