CWE

CWE-318 – Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Executable

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Description

The application stores sensitive information in cleartext in an executable.

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.

Modes of Introduction:

– Architecture and Design

 

 

Related Weaknesses

CWE-312

 

Consequences

Confidentiality: Read Application Data

 

Potential Mitigations

CVE References

  • CVE-2005-1794
    • Product stores RSA private key in a DLL and uses it to sign a certificate, allowing spoofing of servers and Adversary-in-the-Middle (AITM) attacks.
  • CVE-2001-1527
    • administration passwords in cleartext in executable
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