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CWE-779: Logging of Excessive Data

Base Draft

The product logs too much information, making log files hard to process and possibly hindering recovery efforts or forensic analysis after an attack.

How to prevent it (3 mitigations)

  1. Architecture and Design

    Suppress large numbers of duplicate log messages and replace them with periodic summaries. For example, syslog may include an entry that states "last message repeated X times" when recording repeated events.

  2. Architecture and Design

    Support a maximum size for the log file that can be controlled by the administrator. If the maximum size is reached, the admin should be notified. Also, consider reducing functionality of the product. This may result in a denial-of-service to legitimate product users, but it will prevent the product from adversely impacting the entire system.

  3. Implementation

    Adjust configurations appropriately when the product is transitioned from a debug state to production.

Source: MITRE CWE-779

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  • High 7.5
    CVE-2025-8696

    DoS attack against the Stork UI from an unauthenticated user

    If an unauthenticated user sends a large amount of data to the Stork UI, it may cause memory and disk use problems for the system running the Stork server. This issue affects Stork versions 1.0.0 through 2.3.0.

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  • High 7.3
    CVE-2025-53650

    Jenkins Credentials Binding Plugin vulnerability can expose sensitive information in logger messages

    Jenkins Credentials Binding Plugin 687.v619cb_15e923f and earlier does not properly mask (i.e., replace with asterisks) credentials present in exception error messages that are written to the build log.

    Jenkins Project Jenkins Credentials Binding Plugin org.jenkins-ci.plugins:credentials-binding Web / CMS Maven
  • High 7.5
    CVE-2024-55628

    Suricata oversized resource names utilizing DNS name compression can lead to resource starvation

    Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to version 7.0.8, DNS resource name compression can lead to small DNS messages containing very large hostnames which can be costly to d…

    OISF suricata suricata suricata Debian Ubuntu Alpine
  • High 8.6
    CVE-2024-36416 Public exploit

    SuiteCRM v4 API Excessive log data DOS

    SuiteCRM is an open-source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software application. Prior to versions 7.14.4 and 8.6.1, a deprecated v4 API example with no log rotation allows denial of service by logging excessive data. Versions 7.14.4 and 8.6.1 contain …

    salesagility SuiteCRM
  • High 8.1
    CVE-2023-23949

    An authenticated user can supply malicious HTML and JavaScript code that will be executed in the client browser.

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2022-31004

    Potential secrets being logged to disk in CVE Services

    CVEProject/cve-services is an open source project used to operate the CVE services API. A conditional in 'data.js' has potential for production secrets to be written to disk. The affected method writes the generated randomKey to disk if the environment is not…

    CVEProject cve-services