Detalle CWE-1266

CWE-1266

Improper Scrubbing of Sensitive Data from Decommissioned Device
Incomplete
2020-02-24
00h00 +00:00
2025-12-11
00h00 +00:00
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Nombre: Improper Scrubbing of Sensitive Data from Decommissioned Device

The product does not properly provide a capability for the product administrator to remove sensitive data at the time the product is decommissioned. A scrubbing capability could be missing, insufficient, or incorrect.

Informaciones generales

Modos de introducción

Architecture and Design
Policy
Implementation

Plataformas aplicables

Lenguaje

Class: Not Language-Specific (Undetermined)

Sistemas operativos

Class: Not OS-Specific (Undetermined)

Arquitecturas

Class: Not Architecture-Specific (Undetermined)

Tecnologías

Class: Not Technology-Specific (Undetermined)

Consecuencias comunes

Alcance Impacto Probabilidad
ConfidentialityRead Memory

Mitigaciones potenciales

Phases : Architecture and Design
Phases : Policy
Phases : Implementation

Notas de mapeo de vulnerabilidades

Justificación : 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.
Comentario : 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.

Patrones de ataque relacionados

CAPEC-ID Nombre del patrón de ataque
CAPEC-150 Collect Data from Common Resource Locations
An adversary exploits well-known locations for resources for the purposes of undermining the security of the target. In many, if not most systems, files and resources are organized in a default tree structure. This can be useful for adversaries because they often know where to look for resources or files that are necessary for attacks. Even when the precise location of a targeted resource may not be known, naming conventions may indicate a small area of the target machine's file tree where the resources are typically located. For example, configuration files are normally stored in the /etc director on Unix systems. Adversaries can take advantage of this to commit other types of attacks.
CAPEC-37 Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data
An attacker examines a target system to find sensitive data that has been embedded within it. This information can reveal confidential contents, such as account numbers or individual keys/credentials that can be used as an intermediate step in a larger attack.
CAPEC-545 Pull Data from System Resources
An adversary who is authorized or has the ability to search known system resources, does so with the intention of gathering useful information. System resources include files, memory, and other aspects of the target system. In this pattern of attack, the adversary does not necessarily know what they are going to find when they start pulling data. This is different than CAPEC-150 where the adversary knows what they are looking for due to the common location.
CAPEC-546 Incomplete Data Deletion in a Multi-Tenant Environment
An adversary obtains unauthorized information due to insecure or incomplete data deletion in a multi-tenant environment. If a cloud provider fails to completely delete storage and data from former cloud tenants' systems/resources, once these resources are allocated to new, potentially malicious tenants, the latter can probe the provided resources for sensitive information still there.
CAPEC-675 Retrieve Data from Decommissioned Devices

Notas

This entry is still under development and will continue to see updates and content improvements.

Referencias

REF-1080

Security Failures in Secure Devices
Christopher Tarnovsky.
https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-08/Tarnovsky/Presentation/bh-eu-08-tarnovsky.pdf

Envío

Nombre Organización Fecha Fecha de lanzamiento Version
Paul A. Wortman Wells Fargo 2020-05-28 +00:00 2020-02-24 +00:00 4.1

Modificaciones

Nombre Organización Fecha Comentario
CWE Content Team MITRE 2020-08-20 +00:00 updated Potential_Mitigations, Related_Attack_Patterns
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-01-31 +00:00 updated Related_Attack_Patterns
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-04-27 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-06-29 +00:00 updated Mapping_Notes
CWE Content Team MITRE 2025-12-11 +00:00 updated Weakness_Ordinalities