Anyone can find the password
Summary
Marking a variable as private only makes the variable not visible to other contract but everyone can find the value of the variable from its storage slot. Therefore, s_password is visible to everyone. Anyone can retrieve the password from the storage of the contract.
Vulnerability Details
This contract is highly vulnerable to attacks.
Impact
This has high impact on the security of the contract. since anyone can find the password.
Recommendations
It's better to not to store the confidential data in the contract.
Lead Judging Commences
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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