Now you got my point ;)

I have tried with google query to show database connection on Drupal,
Codeigniter, Wordpress and many else.
But yes, they can handle this database error carefully.

So, i think this is critical issue that should fixed immediatelly.

Thanks

Yodi
http://yoodey.com

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Thomas Ploch <profipl...@googlemail.com>wrote:

> OMG,
>
> I certainly could connect to __several__ mysql servers found with this
> google query.
>
> Although I agree that this is a developer's mistake, I am sure that
> there are a lot of unskilled developers that are doing this because they
> just dont know it better. So removing those values from the output would
> be a +1 from me.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
> Am Dienstag, den 21.06.2011, 06:02 -0700 schrieb chris:
> > I'm intrigued by this issue.
> >
> > Can someone explain what situations would the whole config var be
> > output? Is it only when an error occurs, and only when at a certain
> > debug level? I've never seen it displayed at all whilst developing
> > with cakePHP.
> >
> > Out of interested I googled the first part of the output, i.e.
> >
> > $config = array( "persistent" => false,
> >
> > and it certaintly suprised me how many sites this brings back with
> > passwords on show.
> >
> > On Jun 21, 12:46 pm, yodi <bashl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Sorry, it was on random site build by CakePHP.
> > >
> > > To Euromark, i found more than 100 website affected with this problem
> > > and i don't have much time to email them all.
> > >
> > > I think, whether it debug > 0, Cakephp should'nt throw real password
> > > into CONTEXT.
> > >
> > > I try searching another CMS and Framework. Using same method, i found
> > > nothing of them show real password where database error connection
> > > occured.
> > >
> > > Yes, this is security issued for me. Which there are many developer
> > > using CakePHP.
> > >
> > > To Larry, i can send you some message to show how much it's affected.
> It
> > > can be consideration.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 06:13 -0500, Larry E. Masters wrote:
> > > > Are you saying this was on the CakePHP website or a random site you
> > > > where visiting?
> > >
> > > > --
> > > > Larry E. Masters
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:18 PM, yoodey <bashl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >         Hello all,
> > >
> > > >         I'm randomly browsing and get a website with Database error
> > > >         connection.
> > > >         It gave me error page : Warning (2): mysql_connect()
> > > >         [function.mysql-
> > > >         connect]: Access denied for user ...
> > >
> > > >         So i click on Context option and got this information.
> > >
> > > >         $config =       array(
> > > >                "persistent" => false,
> > > >                "host" => "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
> > > >                "login" => "dbxxxxx",
> > > >                "password" => "dbtxxx",
> > > >                "database" => "dbxxxxx",
> > > >                "port" => "3306",
> > > >                "driver" => "mysql",
> > > >                "prefix" => "",
> > > >                "encoding" => "UTF8"
> > > >         )
> > >
> > > >         To avoid other people doing bad thing, i'm not showing real
> > > >         error
> > > >         information.
> > >
> > > >         I'm doing mysql command based on that information and guest
> > > >         what? I
> > > >         got full access!
> > > >         Curious with this error, i'm doing little research and found
> > > >         more than
> > > >         1000 website mysql root access. (there many others, but i too
> > > >         tired to
> > > >         check it one by one ).
> > >
> > > >         This is very dangerous things which i'm big fans of CakePHP.
> I
> > > >         working
> > > >         on 50K/day visitors website powered by CakePHP which i don't
> > > >         wanna
> > > >         this thing happen to me.
> > >
> > > >         So, please tell me, which people in cakephp.org should be
> > > >         contacted
> > > >         because this issue. Opening ticket will leaked real
> > > >         information for
> > > >         the victim website.
> > >
> > > >         Thanks
> > >
> > > >         Yoodey
> > >
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