CWE-314

Cleartext Storage in the Registry
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The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in the registry.

Status
draft
Abstraction
variant

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

confidentiality
Impacts
read application data

Potential Mitigations