OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A6 - Security Misconfiguration
A category in the Common Weakness Enumeration published by The MITRE Corporation.
Summary
Categories in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) group entries based on some common characteristic or attribute.
Weaknesses in this category are related to the A6 category in the OWASP Top Ten 2017.
Weaknesses
A directory listing is inappropriately exposed, yielding potentially sensitive information to attackers.
The product generates an error message that includes sensitive information about its environment, users, or associated data.
Categories
Deprecated or Obsolete
Weaknesses in this category are typically introduced during the configuration of the software.
Concepts
CWE nodes in this view (graph) are associated with the OWASP Top Ten, as released in 2017.
See Also
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