CWE Reference

CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Official CWE-200 CWE context with Glexia analysis, remediation guidance, related CVEs, and ATT&CK context.

Release starter-2026-05weaknessDraft

Glexia's Take

CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.

Executive Impact

Privacy breach
Credential exposure
Regulatory impact

Developer Pattern

CWE-200 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.

Confidence

medium confidence from CWE-200, starter-2026-05.

Official CWE Definition

CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Exposure of Sensitive Information is a software weakness pattern tracked by CWE 200. The local starter record is replaced by the official MITRE CWE import when the sync pipeline runs.

Type: weakness
Abstraction: Class
Status: Draft
Source: MITRE CWE definition

Developer And Remediation Guidance

How teams prevent and detect this weakness

Causes

Returning stack traces or tokens in client-visible responses.

Remediation

Data minimization
Access control
Encryption
Secrets redaction

Detection

Code review
Secret scanning
Log review

Mappings

Related CVEs, CWEs, and ATT&CK context

Related CWEs

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Related CVEs

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ATT&CK Relevance

ATT&CK relevance is shown only when reviewed or responsibly inferred.