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+1 for mentioning the security implications of creating queries as strings. Even for purely internal systems, there are often possibilities for mistakes or external inputs. Libraries/frameworks often have ways to specify params separately, so that they get sanitised automatically; and they usually provide a way to sanitise manually if needed.

gidds
– gidds

2023-04-13 22:17:57 +00:00
Commented Apr 13, 2023 at 22:17
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I'm glad you mentioned SQL injection. It's unlikely that an arracker could use the environment variables to cause direct harm to the database; however, it might be very easy for an attacker to use SQL injection to access information that was not intended to be exposed.

JohnH
– JohnH

2023-04-13 23:19:16 +00:00
Commented Apr 13, 2023 at 23:19

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