Cyber Resilience

CWE · MITRE source

CWE-1230Exposure of Sensitive Information Through Metadata

Abstraction: Base · CVEs in our corpus: 25

The product prevents direct access to a resource containing sensitive information, but it does not sufficiently limit access to metadata that is derived from the original, sensitive information.

Developers might correctly prevent unauthorized access to a database or other resource containing sensitive information, but they might not consider that portions of the original information might also be recorded in metadata, search indices, statistical reports, or other resources. If these resources are not also restricted, then attackers might be able to extract some or all of the original information, or otherwise infer some details. For example, an attacker could specify search terms that are known to be unique to a particular person, or view metadata such as activity or creation dates in order to identify usage patterns.

Last updated: 04 July 2026 00:28 UTC

Cumulative inbound coverage

How completely the frameworks we cross-walk collectively cover this — the verdict is the strongest single mapping (overlapping partials are not summed); breadth shows the corroboration behind it.

Collective: mostly · 7 mapping(s) from 2 framework(s): ASVS 5.0 4 (mostly) · ATT&CK 3 (partial)

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NIST 800-53 r5 controls that address this weakness (1)AI

Control Title Family Why it addresses this CWE
AU-13Monitoring for Information DisclosureAUIdentifies sensitive information exposed via metadata during disclosure monitoring.

MITRE ATT&CK techniques this weakness enables

Our own two-way CWE↔ATT&CK cross-walk — a direct mapping with no public source (the CWE→CAPEC→ATT&CK chain leaves most top weaknesses, incl. XSS and SQLi, mapped to nothing). Drafted by Grok and spot-checked by Claude Opus 4.8.

Direction: other covers this; this covers other (F/M/P = full / mostly / partial).

Top CVEs of this weakness type, ranked by Risk Priority

CVE Risk CVSS EPSS Published
CVE-2024-532915.57.50.00302024-12-25
CVE-2024-90995.58.10.00552025-03-20
CVE-2025-03305.57.50.00522025-03-20
CVE-2025-47324 UPD5.57.50.00172025-08-06
CVE-2025-130845.57.60.00242025-11-26
CVE-2023-19743.56.50.00602023-04-11
CVE-2023-324883.55.30.00322023-08-16
CVE-2023-69623.55.30.00442024-05-02
CVE-2024-89103.54.30.00312024-09-25
CVE-2024-49395 UPD3.55.30.00292024-11-12
CVE-2024-475173.56.80.00392025-01-10
CVE-2024-103243.54.30.00262025-01-24
CVE-2025-265273.55.30.00342025-02-24
CVE-2025-19213.56.50.00322025-03-05
CVE-2024-94473.56.50.00572025-03-20
CVE-2025-48941 UPD3.55.30.00282025-06-02
CVE-2026-276613.54.30.00262026-03-10
CVE-2026-290553.55.30.00312026-03-26
CVE-2026-49270 UPD3.55.90.00332026-06-01
CVE-2026-45544 UPD3.54.30.00222026-06-01
CVE-2025-59601 UPD3.56.50.00112026-06-01
CVE-2023-504581.53.50.00192025-07-10
CVE-2025-8713 UPD1.53.10.00212025-08-14
CVE-2025-31959 UPD1.53.50.00142026-05-06