CWE-312 - Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

Description

As sensitive information is stored in cleartext, it is not protected from malicious users' access. Even data made human-unreadable can be easily decoded by attacker having access to the system with the help of certain techiques.
The weakness is introduces during Architecture and Design stage.

Latest vulnerabilities for CWE-312

References

Description of CWE-312 on Mitre website