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== Sensitive Code Example

----
Connection conn = null;
try {
  conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost/test?" +
        "user=steve&password=blue"); // Sensitive
  String uname = "steve";
  String password = "blue";
  conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost/test?" +
        "user=" + uname + "&password=" + password); // Sensitive

  java.net.PasswordAuthentication pa = new java.net.PasswordAuthentication("userName", "1234".toCharArray());  // Sensitive
----

== Compliant Solution

[source,java]
----
Connection conn = null;
try {
  String uname = getEncryptedUser();
  String password = getEncryptedPass();
  conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost/test?" +
        "user=" + uname + "&password=" + password);
----

== See

* https://owasp.org/Top10/A07_2021-Identification_and_Authentication_Failures/[OWASP Top 10 2021 Category A7] - Identification and Authentication Failures
* https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10-2017_A2-Broken_Authentication[OWASP Top 10 2017 Category A2] - Broken Authentication
* https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/798[MITRE, CWE-798] - Use of Hard-coded Credentials
* https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/259[MITRE, CWE-259] - Use of Hard-coded Password
* https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/OjdGBQ[CERT, MSC03-J.] - Never hard code sensitive information
* https://www.sans.org/top25-software-errors/#cat3[SANS Top 25] - Porous Defenses
* Derived from FindSecBugs rule https://h3xstream.github.io/find-sec-bugs/bugs.htm#HARD_CODE_PASSWORD[Hard Coded Password]

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