cmsAddAdmin shouldn't log the password if it was provided by the user
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Description
1.file: cms/cmscontrib/AddAdmin.py
function:add_admin
Log information disclosure username and password
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Research direction
Open cms/cmscontrib/AddAdmin.py and inspect the add_admin function's logging around password handling. Confirm which user-provided password values reach the log, then adjust the behavior so the password is not disclosed; verify the resulting logs no longer contain it.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- security
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100