CWE-314 — Cleartext Storage in the Registry
CWE-314: Cleartext Storage in the Registry
MITRE CWE weakness
| Kind | Weakness |
| Abstraction | Variant |
| Status | Draft |
| Likelihood of exploit | — |
Description
The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in the registry.
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: Read Application Data
Mitigations
(none listed)
References
- CWE page: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/314.html
- CWE list: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/index.html
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