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There is no good reason to log the database password into a log file. The culprit is lines like these:
echo >&2 "Database Password: $MAUTIC_DB_PASSWORD"
Reference doc: https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Logging_Cheat_Sheet.html#data-to-exclude