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CWE-314Cleartext Storage in the Registry

Category: data-exposure

Description

The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in the registry. Attackers can read the information by accessing the registry key. 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

Related CAPEC attack patterns· 1

CAPEC-37

References

  1. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/314.html

Exploits (incoming)1

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
AttackPatternRetrieve Embedded Sensitive Datacapec-37100%live

Related by meaning· 6

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

CWE
Cleartext Storage in a File or on Disk
CWE
Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Executable
CWE
Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in GUI
CWE
Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
CWE
Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in a Cookie
CWE
Plaintext Storage of a Password
Sourced from MITRE CWE 4.20. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.