CWE-220: Storage of File With Sensitive Data Under FTP Root | Glexia
CWE-220 (Storage of File With Sensitive Data Under FTP Root) weakness overview with consequences, detection methods, mitigations, related CVEs and MITRE ATT&CK…
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CWE-220: Storage of File With Sensitive Data Under FTP Root
Storage of File With Sensitive Data Under FTP Root represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.
Executive Impact
- Confidentiality: Read Application Data
Developer Pattern
CWE-220 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-220, 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-220: Storage of File With Sensitive Data Under FTP Root
The product stores sensitive data under the FTP server root with insufficient access control, which might make it accessible to untrusted parties.
Developer And Remediation Guidance
How teams prevent and detect this weakness
Causes
- Missing validation
- Unsafe defaults
- Insufficient authorization or memory-safety invariant
Remediation
- Implementation,System Configuration: Avoid storing information under the FTP root directory.
- System Configuration: Access control permissions should be set to prevent reading/writing of sensitive files inside/outside of the FTP directory.
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.