CWE-214

Invocation of Process Using Visible Sensitive Information
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A process is invoked with sensitive command-line arguments, environment variables, or other elements that can be seen by other processes on the operating system.

Status
incomplete
Abstraction
base

Many operating systems allow a user to list information about processes that are owned by other users. Other users could see information such as command line arguments or environment variable settings. When this data contains sensitive information such as credentials, it might allow other users to launch an attack against the product or related resources.

Common Consequences

confidentiality
Impacts
read application data

Potential Mitigations

Functional Areas

program invocation