Submission Details
Severity:
Password is visible through contract storage
Summary
Setting a variable as private does not mean it can not be found by anyone. It just does not provide the interface publicly but others can find it through blockchain storage.
Impact
Password can be discovered by others.
Recommendations
Encrypt password off chain and only keep the encrypted password on chain. User needs to remember their salt to decrypt the password.
Updates
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inallhonesty
about 2 years ago
inallhonesty
about 2 years ago
inallhonesty about 2 years ago
Submission Judgement Published Assigned finding tags:
finding-anyone-can-read-storage
Private functions and state variables are only visible for the contract they are defined in and not in derived contracts. In this case private doesn't mean secret/confidential
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