Leakage of sensitive data to Datadog RUM

• Rule ID: javascript_third_parties_datadog_browser
• Languages: javascript
• Source: datadog_browser.yml

Description

Sensitive and private data contained in your pages may be sent to Datadog to identify elements that a user interacted with.

Remediations

• Do control which information is sent to Datadog by either manually setting an action name or implementing a global scrubbing rule in the Datadog Browser SDK for RUM.

Resources

• Datadog docs
• Scrubbing data

Associated CWE

• CWE-201: Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data

OWASP Top 10

• A01:2021 - Broken Access Control

Configuration

To skip this rule during a scan, use the following flag

bearer scan /path/to/your-project/ --skip-rule=javascript_third_parties_datadog_browser

To run only this rule during a scan, use the following flag

bearer scan /path/to/your-project/ --only-rule=javascript_third_parties_datadog_browser