From 43c9189c2b8e7583d84d08fc4227c33124336563 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: shivamrawat101192 <shivam@akto.io>
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2024 13:44:39 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] handling npe for skipping reason stringbuilder

---
 .../src/main/java/com/akto/test_editor/filter/FilterAction.java | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/apps/testing/src/main/java/com/akto/test_editor/filter/FilterAction.java b/apps/testing/src/main/java/com/akto/test_editor/filter/FilterAction.java
index 6e765666e3..c3f3a244af 100644
--- a/apps/testing/src/main/java/com/akto/test_editor/filter/FilterAction.java
+++ b/apps/testing/src/main/java/com/akto/test_editor/filter/FilterAction.java
@@ -1113,7 +1113,7 @@ public Object resolveResponseHeader(FilterActionRequest filterActionRequest, Boo
     public DataOperandsFilterResponse evaluatePrivateVariables(FilterActionRequest filterActionRequest) {
 
         List<BasicDBObject> privateValues = new ArrayList<>();
-        StringBuilder vulnerabilityReasonString = null;
+        StringBuilder vulnerabilityReasonString = new StringBuilder();
         if (filterActionRequest.getOperand().equalsIgnoreCase(TestEditorEnums.DataOperands.REGEX.toString())) {
             if (filterActionRequest.getContextEntities() == null) {
                 return new DataOperandsFilterResponse(false, null, filterActionRequest.getContextEntities(), null);