Improper access control Medium

Writing unsanitized user data into logs can allow malicious contents into it. Use appropriate sanitizers or validators on the user data before writing the data into logs.

Detector ID
typescript/improper-access-control@v1.0
Category
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) external icon

Noncompliant example

1var express = require("express");
2var helmet = require("helmet");
3var app = express();
4
5function improperAccessControlNoncompliant() {
6  app.use(
7    helmet.permittedCrossDomainPolicies({
8      // Noncompliant: permittedPolicies is set to 'all'.
9      permittedPolicies: "all",
10    }),
11  );
12}

Compliant example

1var express = require("express");
2var helmet = require("helmet");
3var app = express();
4function improperAccessControlCompliant() {
5  app.use(
6    helmet.permittedCrossDomainPolicies({
7      // Compliant: permittedPolicies is set to 'none'.
8      permittedPolicies: "none",
9    }),
10  );
11}