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This code will only catch exceptions intended by the programmer to be caught. A concurrency-based exception will not be caught by this code, and can therefore be managed by code more specifically designed to handle it.
Exceptions
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*EXC32-J-EX1*: A secure application must also abide by [EXC01-J. Do not allow exceptions to transmit sensitive information]. In order to follow this rule, an application might find it necessary to catch all exceptions at some 'top' level in order to sanitize (or suppress) them. This is also summarized in the CWE entries, [CWE 7|http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/7.html] and [CWE 388|http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/388.html]. If exceptions need to be caught, it is better to catch {{Throwable}} instead of {{Exception}} \[[Roubtsov 03|AA. Java References#Roubtsov 03]\]. |
Risk Assessment
Catching RuntimeException will trap several types of exceptions not intended to be caught. This prevents them from being handled properly.
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