Cyber Resilience

CWE · MITRE source

CWE-201Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data

Abstraction: Base · CVEs in our corpus: 379

The code transmits data to another actor, but a portion of the data includes sensitive information that should not be accessible to that actor.

Last updated: 11 August 2026 21:18 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: partial · 1 mapping(s) from 1 framework(s): CAPEC 1 (partial)

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OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

This weakness contributes to A01:2025 Broken Access Control.

Control responseHuman-reviewed

Answering this weakness across the control lifecycle, from our framework cross-walks.

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53 / CSF Protect)
  • SI-20 Tainting
  • PR.DS-02
  • PR.DS-10
  • PR.PS-06
Detect
Catch it (CSF Detect / Respond)
  • DE.CM-09
Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 1 hardening rule · 1 OS baseline
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V14.2.3

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

Control Title Family Why it addresses this CWE
SI-20TaintingSIEmbedding taints allows detection when sensitive data is inserted into outbound or sent data streams.

Top CVEs of this weakness type, ranked by Risk Priority

CVE Risk CVSS EPSS Published
CVE-2018-17245 7.69.80.01522018-12-20
CVE-2020-26085 7.49.90.02242021-01-07
CVE-2025-49408 7.410.00.00492025-08-20
CVE-2020-27134 7.39.90.01652020-12-11
CVE-2020-27127 7.29.90.01342020-12-11
CVE-2020-27132 7.29.90.01432020-12-11
CVE-2020-27133 7.29.90.01122020-12-11
CVE-2026-39912 6.99.10.00582026-04-09
CVE-2025-41118 6.89.10.00412026-04-15
CVE-2026-42880 6.89.60.00512026-05-07
CVE-2025-580986.68.30.01522025-12-05
CVE-2023-48240 6.59.00.00712023-11-20
CVE-2025-48749 6.49.10.00372025-05-28
CVE-2025-60188 6.47.50.03482025-11-06
CVE-2016-10518 6.27.50.02022018-05-31
CVE-2016-10519 6.27.50.01642018-05-31
CVE-2021-26566 6.28.30.01492021-02-26
CVE-2024-32825 6.27.50.02022024-04-24
CVE-2025-3529 6.28.20.00392025-04-23
CVE-2026-244776.27.50.01572026-01-27
CVE-2023-3399 6.18.50.00452023-11-06
CVE-2024-3502 6.18.10.00402024-11-14
CVE-2025-62039 6.17.50.01252025-11-06
CVE-2026-5483 6.18.50.00492026-04-10
CVE-2026-46481 6.18.30.00242026-06-08