CWE-318
Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Executable
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The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in an executable.
Status
draft
Abstraction
variant
Affected Platforms
Extended Description
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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.
Technical Details
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Common Consequences
confidentiality
Impacts
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