CWE•Variant•Draft•12 recent CVEs
CWE-316Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Memory
Description
The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in memory.
Common consequences
- Confidentiality→Read MemoryMemory could be read by attackers with administrator privileges, which may be a concern in some threat models. However, even without admin privileges, swapping could cause the memory to be written to disk and leave it accessible to physical
Related CWEs
Recent CVEs classified under this CWE
CVE-2026-714552026-10-26CVE-2025-565657.62026-09-16CVE-2026-774072026-09-16CVE-2026-536042026-09-04CVE-2026-751376.12026-09-02CVE-2026-751356.12026-09-02CVE-2026-278752026-08-21CVE-2026-86365.52026-06-22CVE-2025-617134.22025-11-18CVE-2025-46182025-11-14CVE-2025-428885.52025-11-11CVE-2014-23662014-07-19