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Printing the stack trace can also result in unintentionally leaking information about the structure and state of the process to an attacker. When a Java program that is run within a console terminates because of an uncaught exception, the exception's message and stack trace are displayed on the console; the stack trace may itself contain sensitive information about the program's internal structure. Consequently, any program that may be run on a console accessible to an untrusted user 's console must never abort due to an uncaught exception.

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