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CWE-550: Server-generated Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

Variant Incomplete

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

How to prevent it (1 mitigation)

  1. Architecture and Design, System Configuration

    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.

Source: MITRE CWE-550

All Critical High Medium Low Exploited only Public exploit

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  • Medium 5.3
    CVE-2025-36419

    Multiple vulnerabilities found in IBM ApplinX.

    IBM ApplinX 11.1 could disclose sensitive information about server architecture that could aid in further attacks against the system.

    IBM ApplinX
  • Medium 5.3
    CVE-2023-5617

    Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Data Integration & Analytics - Server-generated Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

    Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Data Integration & Analytics versions before 10.1.0.0 and 9.3.0.6, including 9.5.x and 8.3.x, display the version of Tomcat when a server error is encountered.

    Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Data Integration & Analytics