VYPR

CWE-314

Cleartext Storage in the Registry

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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.

Hierarchy (View 1000)

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Related attack patterns (CAPEC)

CAPEC-37

CVEs mapped to this weakness (1)

  • CVE-2023-2335MedApr 27, 2023
    risk 0.42cvss 6.5epss 0.00

    Plaintext Password in Registry vulnerability in 42gears surelock windows surelockwinsetupv2.40.0.Exe on Windows (Registery modules) allows Retrieve Admin user credentials This issue affects surelock windows: from 2.3.12 through 2.40.0.