CWE-316: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in… | Glexia
CWE-316 (Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Memory) weakness overview with consequences, detection methods, mitigations, related CVEs and MITRE ATT&CK…
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CWE-316: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Memory
Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Memory represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.
Executive Impact
- Confidentiality: Read Memory
Developer Pattern
CWE-316 is the kind of defect developers can usually prevent with explicit validation, safer framework defaults, and tests that exercise hostile input or unsafe state transitions.
Automation confidence
high confidence from CWE-316, 4.20.
Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.
Official CWE Definition
CWE-316: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Memory
The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in memory.
Developer And Remediation Guidance
How teams prevent and detect this weakness
Causes
- Missing validation
- Unsafe defaults
- Insufficient authorization or memory-safety invariant
Remediation
- Use safe APIs
- Centralize the control
- Add regression tests
- Review logs and telemetry for attempted abuse
Detection
- Code review
- SAST
- DAST
- Focused regression tests
Mappings
Related CVEs, CWEs, and ATT&CK context
ATT&CK Relevance
ATT&CK relevance is shown only when reviewed or responsibly inferred.