Sensitive Data Exposure Detection
sensitive-data-exposure is a medium severity check in the
web category, written in yaml.
Its source is templates/web/sensitive-data/sensitive-data-exposure.yaml in
cert-x-gen-templates.
What it checks
Section titled “What it checks”Detects exposure of sensitive information in HTTP responses. Looks for API keys, credentials, internal paths, and configuration data.
Header
Section titled “Header”| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Id | sensitive-data-exposure |
| Severity | medium |
| Language | yaml |
| Category | web |
| Author | CERT-X-GEN Security Team |
| Template version | not recorded |
| Confidence | 95 |
| CVSS | not recorded |
| Weakness | CWE-200, CWE-312 |
| Tags | information-disclosure, sensitive-data, owasp-a02, data-leakage, credentials, web |
| Target kind | not recorded |
| Oracle | not recorded |
The file declares http as well. Those are not tabled above; read the
source for what they carry.
References
Section titled “References”Declared in the header. cxg parses @references and then discards it, and
nothing at scan time reads it, so this is the only place the links a
template cites are surfaced.
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/200.html
- https://owasp.org/www-community/vulnerabilities/Information_exposure
- https://portswigger.net/web-security/information-disclosure
Run it
Section titled “Run it”To see what the copy on your machine says about itself, and to confirm it is installed at all:
cxg template info sensitive-data-exposureThe id it prints is the one to pass anywhere a template is selected. See
cxg template for the rest of
the subcommand, Scan a target for running
a scan, and
A match is not a finding for how
to read what comes back.
Related
Section titled “Related”- Template catalog is the whole corpus.
- web is the rest of this category.
- Templates by weakness class groups checks by the defect they look for.
- Contribute a template is the route from a check you needed and could not find to a merged one.