Potential Information Leakage

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
security

Research direction

Start in tabpy/utils/tabpy_user.py at the linked line where the user name and password are sent to the logger. Reproduce the add-user flow, then verify that the resulting log output no longer exposes the password while retaining useful context.

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Description

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Environment information:

  • OS: Ubuntu-22
  • Python version: 3.9
  • TabPy release: 2.9.0

Describe the issue
In code User name and password is directly put into logger. It is a potential security issue as described in CWE-532

To Reproduce
add user

Expected behavior
redacted the password

Dominant language
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