OWASP/wrongsecrets

Nexus deployment credentials in settings.xml

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#810 opened on May 8, 2023

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This challenge is about packing and explaining why you should not have nexus deployment credentials in your github project hardcoded. However, we will not have an actual nexus setup right now.

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Study the example settings.xml from the linked repository, create a settings.xml with a placeholder secret, then implement a Java challenge that reads the secret from the settings.xml file using XML parsing.
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java
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backendsecurity
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