Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in a Cookie

Opis

The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in a cookie.

Attackers can use widely-available tools to view the cookie and read the sensitive information. Even if the information is encoded in a way that is not human-readable, certain techniques could determine which encoding is being used, then decode the information.

Skutki

• Confidentiality

  Read Application Data

Przykłady podatności

• CVE-2002-1800 Admin password in cleartext in a cookie.
• CVE-2001-1537 Default configuration has cleartext usernames/passwords in cookie.
• CVE-2001-1536 Usernames/passwords in cleartext in cookies.
• CVE-2005-2160 Authentication information stored in cleartext in a cookie.

Słabość nadrzędna

• CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

Kiedy powstaje

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

Dotyczy

Not Language-Specific

Uwagi

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).