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J2EE Bad Practices: Use of System.exit()

CWE-382 · Variant · Draft

A J2EE application uses System.exit(), which also shuts down its container.

Extended description

It is never a good idea for a web application to attempt to shut down the application container. Access to a function that can shut down the application is an avenue for Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.

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