Vendors and Products

CPE, which stands for Common Platform Enumeration, is a standardized scheme for naming hardware, software, and operating systems. CPE provides a structured naming scheme to uniquely identify and classify information technology systems, platforms, and packages based on certain attributes such as vendor, product name, version, update, edition, and language.

Name: Exposure of Sensitive Information Through Data Queries

When trying to keep information confidential, an attacker can often infer some of the information by using statistics.

CWE Description

In situations where data should not be tied to individual users, but a large number of users should be able to make queries that "scrub" the identity of users, it may be possible to get information about a user -- e.g., by specifying search terms that are known to be unique to that user.

General Informations

Modes Of Introduction

Architecture and Design
Implementation

Applicable Platforms

Language

Class: Not Language-Specific (Undetermined)

Common Consequences

Scope	Impact	Likelihood
Confidentiality	Read Files or Directories, Read Application Data Note: Sensitive information may possibly be leaked through data queries accidentally.

Observed Examples

References	Description
CVE-2022-41935	Wiki product allows an adversary to discover filenames via a series of queries starting with one letter and then iteratively extending the match.

Potential Mitigations

Phases : Architecture and Design
This is a complex topic. See the [REF-1492] for a good discussion of best practices.

Vulnerability Mapping Notes

Justification : This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.
Comment : Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

Notes

References

REF-18

The CLASP Application Security Process
Secure Software, Inc..
https://cwe.mitre.org/documents/sources/TheCLASPApplicationSecurityProcess.pdf

REF-1492

Translucent Databases
Peter Wayner.
https://www.wayner.org/books/td

Submission

Name	Organization	Date	Date release	Version
CLASP		2006-07-19 +00:00	2006-07-19 +00:00	Draft 3

Modifications

Name	Organization	Date	Comment
Eric Dalci	Cigital	2008-07-01 +00:00	updated Time_of_Introduction
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2008-09-08 +00:00	updated Common_Consequences, Description, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2011-03-29 +00:00	updated Name
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2011-06-01 +00:00	updated Common_Consequences
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2012-05-11 +00:00	updated Related_Attack_Patterns, Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2013-02-21 +00:00	updated Potential_Mitigations
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2014-07-30 +00:00	updated Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2017-05-03 +00:00	updated Related_Attack_Patterns
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2017-11-08 +00:00	updated Applicable_Platforms
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2020-02-24 +00:00	updated Maintenance_Notes, Name, References, Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-04-27 +00:00	updated Relationships, Type
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-06-29 +00:00	updated Mapping_Notes
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-10-26 +00:00	updated Observed_Examples
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2025-12-11 +00:00	updated Demonstrative_Examples, Potential_Mitigations, References, Weakness_Ordinalities

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CWE-202 Detail

CWE-202