CWE-531Variant

Inclusion of Sensitive Information in Test Code

Incomplete in the CWE catalog · 2 CVEs mapped

2
CVEs mapped
5.3
Median CVSS
What it is

Accessible test applications can pose a variety of security risks. Since developers or administrators rarely consider that someone besides themselves would even know about the existence of these applications, it is common for them to contain sensitive information or functions.

Recent examples
5.3cvss
CVE-2024-42213

HCL BigFix Compliance is affected by inclusion of temporary files left in the production environment

HCL BigFix Compliance is affected by inclusion of temporary files left in the production environment. An attacker might gain access to these files by indexing or retrieved via predictable URLs or misconfigured permissions, leading to information disclosure.

MEDIUMno explanation yet
0%
epss
5.4cvss
CVE-2025-43717

In PEAR HTTP_Request2 before 2.7.0, multiple files in the tests directory, notably tests/_network/getparameters.php and tests/_network/postparameters.php…

In PEAR HTTP_Request2 before 2.7.0, multiple files in the tests directory, notably tests/_network/getparameters.php and tests/_network/postparameters.php, reflect any GET or POST parameters, leading to XSS.

MEDIUMno explanation yet
0%
epss
The record
Technical detail
CWE ID
CWE-531
Abstraction
Variant
Structure
Simple
Status
Incomplete