Donald Kwakkel created CMIS-940:
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             Summary: Heap Inspection could reveal passwords
                 Key: CMIS-940
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CMIS-940
             Project: Chemistry
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: opencmis-client
    Affects Versions: OpenCMIS 0.13.0
            Reporter: Donald Kwakkel


Sensitive data (such as passwords, social security numbers, credit card numbers 
etc) stored in memory can be leaked if memory is not cleared after use. Often, 
Strings are used store sensitive data, however, since String objects are 
immutable, removing the value of a String from memory can only be done by the 
JVM garbage collector. The garbage collector is not required to run unless the 
JVM is low on memory, so there is no guarantee as to when garbage collection 
will take place. In the event of an application crash, a memory dump of the 
application might reveal sensitive data.


src/main/java/org/apache/chemistry/opencmis/workbench/model/ClientSession.java:

 public static SessionParameterMap createSessionParameters(String url, 
BindingType binding, String username,
            String password, Authentication authentication, boolean 
compression, boolean clientCompression,
            boolean cookies) {
   



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