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Severity: high
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password is not really private

Summary

the password may be a private variable but anything stored on the blockchain is not really private.

Vulnerability Details

anyone can get the password by going to etherscan and look for the transaction hash and decode the input data.

Impact

password is not private.

Tools Used

etherscan

Recommendations

Use some other methods of storing a password.

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inallhonesty Lead Judge
almost 2 years ago
inallhonesty Lead Judge almost 2 years ago
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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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