CWE-313 — Cleartext Storage in a File or on Disk
CWE-313: Cleartext Storage in a File or on Disk
MITRE CWE weakness
| Kind | Weakness |
| Abstraction | Variant |
| Status | Draft |
| Likelihood of exploit | — |
Description
The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in a file, or on disk.
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: Read Application Data
Mitigations
(none listed)
References
- CWE page: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/313.html
- CWE list: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/index.html