Understanding the Risk
- The population technique of Mongoose which is being used for fetching the related documents from the reference collections and should be used with care while deciding the fields in the query results.
- Because passwords use a field schema and they can be exposed if we don’t handle them properly and it is a significant danger to the security of our site.
How to Protect the Password Field in Mongoose/MongoDB.
When working with Mongoose and MongoDB, it is important to protect sensitive data such as passwords. One common concern is ensuring that the password field is not returned in query results, especially when populating collections.
In this article, we’ll explore How to protect the password field in Mongoose/MongoDB so it won’t return in a query when I populate collections by understanding various methods along with the implementation and so on.
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