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Request #56552 Password are shown in clear text on uncaught exceptions
Submitted: 2005-09-16 12:48 UTC Modified: 2005-09-16 13:52 UTC
Votes:1
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Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
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From: jome at emoj dot net Assigned:
Status: Wont fix Package: PDO (PECL)
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2005-09-16 12:48 UTC] jome at emoj dot net 
Description:
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Using PDO 1.0RC1.

It would be nice if PDO didn't output the password parameter in clear text but somehow hid it when there's an uncaught exception.

Reproduce code:
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new PDO("mysql:dbname=foo", "foo", "bar");

Expected result:
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Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PDOException' with message 'SQLSTATE[28000] [1045] Access denied for user 'foo'@'localhost' (using password: YES)' in Command line code:1
Stack trace:
#0 Command line code(1): PDO->__construct('mysql:dbname=fo...', 'foo', 'HIDDEN')
#1 {main}
  thrown in Command line code on line 1


Actual result:
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Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PDOException' with message 'SQLSTATE[28000] [1045] Access denied for user 'foo'@'localhost' (using password: YES)' in Command line code:1
Stack trace:
#0 Command line code(1): PDO->__construct('mysql:dbname=fo...', 'foo', 'bar')
#1 {main}
  thrown in Command line code on line 1

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 [2005-09-16 13:52 UTC] wez@php.net 
It's actually the zend engine that shows that.
Since the backtrace is debugging output, you shouldn't be displaying it in production.
There isn't a way for PDO to hide the password in the output, sorry (yes, it would be nice).
I'd recommend using set_exception_handler() to hide that output (and log it) and display a friendly error message to the user instead.
 
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