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Information Disclosure

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Description: A security event thanks to which information is exposed to a possible unauthorized access. This may be used to assist malicious user in further attacks of different kind. Ex: the most common PHP information disclosure is often obtained when requesting the phpinfo() feature, disclosing the whole target host configuration and environment.


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