Szczegóły CWE-316

The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in memory.

Sposoby wprowadzenia

Architecture and Design : OMISSION: This weakness is caused by missing a security tactic during the architecture and design phase.

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Class: Not Language-Specific (Undetermined)

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Notatki

This could be a resultant weakness, e.g. if the compiler removes code that was intended to wipe memory.
Different people use "cleartext" and "plaintext" to mean the same thing: the lack of encryption. However, within cryptography, these have more precise meanings. Plaintext is the information just before it is fed into a cryptographic algorithm, including already-encrypted text. Cleartext is any information that is unencrypted, although it might be in an encoded form that is not easily human-readable (such as base64 encoding).

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