Submission Details
Severity:
Transaction variable (password) is visible by everyone
Summary
When the setPassword transaction is called, the variable (which is the password) is publicly visible. Anyone can simply check the scan explorers and find the password.
Impact
Password can be discovered by others.
Recommendations
Encrypt password off chain and send the encrypted password through the transaction.
Updates
Lead Judging Commences
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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