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by osullip 633 days ago
Logging passwords on the fly is probably common. Some debug or log action setup and forgotten.

However, if you ever see a password in plain text you should raise alarms to the highest level.

In this case, I don't think the alarm was raised.

2 comments

I agree, but also I know of devs that don't understand the basic security implications of passwords being in logs. I could easily see how someone, maybe even a couple of people, could see these logs and think nothing of them.
Vast quantities of logs are never reviewed by anyone....