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Revision as of 18:06, 9 June 2006

This is a Vulnerability. To view all vulnerabilities, please see the Vulnerability Category page.


Description

Application reveals details about its inner working by behaving differently, or sending different responses, to different user inputs.

Related Threats

Attackers try to observe the internal working of the application to obtain clues of attacks.

Related Attacks

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.

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