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CWE-313Cleartext Storage in a File or on Disk

Category: data-exposure

Description

The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in a file, or on disk. The sensitive information could be read by attackers with access to the file, or with physical or administrator access to the raw disk. Even if the information is encoded in a way that is not human-readable, certain techniques could determine which encoding is being used, then decode the information.

Common consequences· 1

  • Confidentiality — Read Application Data

References

  1. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/313.html

(incoming)1

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
VulnerabilityCVE-2025-5098cve-2025-50980%live

Related by meaning· 6

Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.

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Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in GUI
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Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Executable
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Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
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Cleartext Storage in the Registry
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Plaintext Storage of a Password
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Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Memory
Sourced from MITRE CWE 4.20. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.