CVE-2026-81705

Procedures mandate excluding sensitive data from logs to prevent unauthorized exposure via audit records.

Identifies insertion of sensitive data into logs, allowing detection of unauthorized disclosure.

Cross-organizational coordination enables agreement on what data to include in audit logs, directly reducing insertion of sensitive information.

Identifying logging as a data action allows prevention of sensitive information being inserted into log files.

The process of identifying and eradicating spilled information applies directly to sensitive data inserted into log files.

Specific processing rules for sensitive PII categories commonly include restrictions on logging, making insertion of such data into log files less likely.

PIAs detect planned or existing logging of PII and require removal or protection, preventing insertion of sensitive information into logs.

Limits insertion of sensitive operational details into logs by treating such data as key information requiring protection.

Log generation configuration can and should exclude sensitive data, but the control statement focuses on availability rather than content filtering.

Secure SDLC practices directly prohibit writing sensitive data to logs; eliminating the weakness satisfies only one narrow slice of the control.

By defining what records must be kept, where, and for how long, the control discourages the inadvertent inclusion of sensitive information in logs or other externally accessible files that fall outside the formal record system.

Mandating deletion of temporary files and logs that may contain sensitive information prevents those artifacts from remaining accessible after the data is no longer needed.

When log entries are produced from masked data sets, the control prevents the inadvertent insertion of sensitive values into externally accessible log files.

DLP inspection of logs and file transfers can detect and block the inadvertent placement of sensitive tokens or credentials into externally accessible log files before they are written or transmitted.

Requiring de-identification and privacy controls before logs leave the organization reduces the chance that sensitive data inadvertently captured in logs becomes exposed to external parties.

Requiring restrictions on free-text fields and proper error-message handling stops developers from embedding or leaking sensitive data into logs or diagnostic output.