CWE-315

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in a Cookie
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The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in a cookie.

Status
draft
Abstraction
variant

Attackers can use widely-available tools to view the cookie and read the sensitive information. 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

Detection Methods

automated static analysis

Potential Mitigations