CWE-318
Overview
- CWE ID
- 318
- CWE Name
- Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Executable
- CWE Abstraction
- Variant
- CWE structure
- Simple
- CWE Status
- Draft
Description
The application stores sensitive information in cleartext in an executable.
Extended Description
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
Related CWEs
| CWE ID | View ID | Nature | Ordinal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 312 | 1000 | ChildOf | Primary |