COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATIONDraft

CWE-318

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Executable

The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in an executable.

Soyutlama

Variant

Yapı

Simple

Sömürü İhtimali

Medium

Problemi anla

Problem nedir?

The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in an executable.

Genişletilmiş açıklama

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.

Kök neden

Problem nasıl ve ne zaman oluşur?

Yaşam döngüsü evresi

Implementation

Risk

Başarılı sömürü neye yol açar?

Read Application Data

Etkilenen güvenlik alanları: Confidentiality

Savunma

Nasıl önlenir ve çözülür?

  • Follow secure coding guidelines for input handling and boundary checking.
  • Enforce strict security reviews and automated static analysis (SAST) checks.