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CWE-318Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Executable

Category: data-exposure

Description

The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in an executable. Attackers can reverse engineer binary code to obtain secret data. This is especially easy when the cleartext is plain ASCII. 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· 2

CAPEC-37CAPEC-65

References

  1. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/318.html

Exploits (incoming)2

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
AttackPatternSniff Application Codecapec-65100%live
AttackPatternRetrieve Embedded Sensitive Datacapec-37100%live

Related by meaning· 6

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

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