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Spring Boot Misconfiguration: Datasource credentials stored in the properties file - Vulnerability Database

Spring Boot Misconfiguration: Datasource credentials stored in the properties file

Description

This Spring Boot web application is storing datasource credentials in plain text in the properties files via spring.datasource.password=. It's not recommended to store plain text passwords in configuration files.

Remediation

It's recommended to encrypt the credentials using a library like Jasypt. By using Jasypt, you can provide encryption for the property sources and the application can decrypt the encrypted properties and retrieve the original values.

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