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Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-318

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Executable

Category: VariantCVE: 1

Description

The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in an executable.

Extended Description

Attackers can reverse engineer binary code to obtain secret data. This is especially easy when the cleartext is plain ASCII. 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.

CVE vulnerabilities with CWE-318 (1)

7.1

CVSS

HIGH

CVE-2022-34388

Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs (version 3.11.4 and prior) and SupportAssist for Business PCs (version 3.2.0 and prior) contain information disclosure vulnerability. A local malicious user with low privileges could exploit this vulnerability to view and modify sensitive information in the database of the affected application.

pub. 2023-02-11

Information

ID: CWE-318

Type: Variant

Vulnerabilities: 1

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