[jboss-jira] [Red Hat JIRA] (JGRP-2528) Hardcoded password detected

Hardcoded password detected --------------------------- Key: JGRP-2528 URL: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JGRP-2528 Project: JGroups Issue Type: Enhancement Reporter: Mahir Kabir Assignee: Bela Ban Priority: Major We are a security research team at Virginia Tech. We are doing an empirical study about the usefulness of the existing security vulnerability detection tools. The following is a reported vulnerability by certain tools. We'll appreciate it if you can give any feedback on it. *Vulnerability Location:* in file https://github.com/belaban/JGroups/blob/32359fa52dc96bacc78792afdaa51cc1a..., line 107 invokes store.load() with store_password,  which is assigned with a constant value "changeit".  *Security Impact:*  Keystore password should not be kept in the source code. The source code can be widely shared in an enterprise environment and is certainly shared in open source. The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure way that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval. *suggestions:* To be managed safely, passwords or secret keys should be stored in separate configuration files or keystores. The Keystore password is better to load from the locally set files instead of directly set in the code. Useful link: [https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/321.html] [https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/522.html] [https://www.baeldung.com/java-keystore] *Please share with us your opinions/comments if there is any:* Is the bug report helpful?