VYPR

CWE-526

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in an Environment Variable

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Description

The product uses an environment variable to store unencrypted sensitive information.

Information stored in an environment variable can be accessible by other processes with the execution context, including child processes that dependencies are executed in, or serverless functions in cloud environments. An environment variable's contents can also be inserted into messages, headers, log files, or other outputs. Often these other dependencies have no need to use the environment variable in question. A weakness that discloses environment variables could expose this information.

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CVEs mapped to this weakness (21)

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  • CVE-2014-2377Sep 15, 2014
    risk 0.00cvss epss 0.02

    Ecava IntegraXor SCADA Server Stable 4.1.4360 and earlier and Beta 4.1.4392 and earlier allows remote attackers to discover full pathnames via an application tag.