CWE-211: Externally-Generated Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

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The product performs an operation that triggers an external diagnostic or error message that is not directly generated or controlled by the product, such as an error generated by the programming language interpreter that a software application uses. The error can contain sensitive system information.

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