Saying "you can read /etc/shadow by doing X, Y, and Z" is okay -- it's a permanent record there was a flaw. Saying "here's your root password hash" is not ok; even once the flaw is fixed, that hash is still floating around out there. I'd take advantage of the edit period and remove that from your comment; it's just not cool. The OP should definitely change the root password on the box regardless.

Well one easy way to increase security would for this to stop running as root.

Please, don't ever run your application code as root. Less so when it's facing the Internet.

No problem I think I could fix it.

Can you show us how you read the content of the file. Just want to learn more