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Discrepancy Information Leaks
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#REDIRECT:Category:Attack
Last revision (mm/dd/yy): 04/11/2009
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Description
Application reveals details about its inner working by behaving differently, or sending different responses, to different user inputs.
Attackers try to observe the internal working of the application to obtain clues of attacks.
Risk Factors
TBD
Examples
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Related Attacks
- Attack 1
- Attack 2
- Attacks that can take advantage of the information revealed in this vulnerability. For example, if an attacker knows whether a user name exists or not through the login response, he can accordingly change his strategy of a brute-force attack.
Related Vulnerabilities
Related Controls
Related Technical Impacts
References
TBD
