CWE-313

Cleartext Storage in a File or on Disk
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The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in a file, or on disk.

Status
draft
Abstraction
variant

The sensitive information could be read by attackers with access to the file, or with physical or administrator access to the raw disk. 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