CWE-313Cleartext Storage in a File or on Disk

Abstraction: Variant · CVEs in our corpus: 33

The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in a file, or on disk.

The sensitive information could be read by attackers with access to the file, or with physical or administrator access to the raw disk. 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.

Last updated: 15 October 2026 14:21 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: full · 4 mapping(s) from 4 framework(s): STIG oracle linux 8 1 (full) · STIG oracle linux 9 1 (mostly) · STIG rhel 8 1 (mostly) · STIG rhel 9 1 (mostly)

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OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

This weakness contributes to A06:2025 Insecure Design.

Control responseHuman-reviewed

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

Prevent

Stop it (NIST 800-53 / CSF Protect)

SC-28 Protection of Information at Rest
PR.DS-01
SC-28 Protection of Information at Rest

Detect

Catch it (CSF Detect / Respond)

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Harden

Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

8 hardening rules · 6 OS baselines

Validate

Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)

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NIST 800-53 r5 controls PROPOSED for this weakness (1)AI-assisted

These are model PROPOSALS, not graded mappings. They come from controls_to_cwe_proposals, which carries no grade field at all; across the CWE pages 1,540 of 1,722 such associations (89%) have never been graded by anything. The heading said “address” until 2026-09-29, which asserted a relationship the data does not carry. Graded cross-walks are on the framework map, not here.

Control	Title	Family	Why it addresses this CWE
`SC-28`	Protection of Information at Rest	SC	graded full Mandating protection of files and disk-stored data at rest prevents the specific weakness of cleartext storage on disk or in files.

Top CVEs of this weakness type, ranked by Risk Priority

CVE	Risk	CVSS	EPSS	Published
`CVE-2016-6538`	6.8	8.8	0.0106	2018-07-06
`CVE-2025-5098`	6.8	9.1	0.0030	2025-05-23
`CVE-2016-6546`	5.8	7.8	0.0041	2018-07-13
`CVE-2016-6547`	5.8	7.8	0.0041	2018-07-13
`CVE-2026-52783`	5.7	8.2	0.0020	2026-06-26
`CVE-2025-4397`	4.9	6.8	0.0013	2026-05-07
`CVE-2025-64305`	4.8	6.5	0.0014	2026-01-07
`CVE-2026-24349`	4.8	7.1	0.0006	2026-06-09
`CVE-2026-14663`	4.8	6.5	0.0010	2026-08-13
`CVE-2025-36154`	4.5	6.2	0.0010	2025-12-24
`CVE-2019-19291`	4.4	5.3	0.0075	2020-03-10
`CVE-2024-20448`	4.4	6.3	0.0012	2024-10-02
`CVE-2026-5531`	4.4	5.3	0.0032	2026-04-05
`CVE-2023-4066`	4.2	5.5	0.0016	2023-09-27
`CVE-2018-10622`	4.1	5.2	0.0036	2018-08-10
`CVE-2024-6785`	4.1	5.5	0.0011	2024-09-21
`CVE-2024-30406`	4.0	5.5	0.0014	2024-04-12
`CVE-2023-35699`	3.9	5.3	0.0020	2023-07-10
`CVE-2024-5916`	3.6	4.4	0.0025	2024-08-14
`CVE-2026-6598`	3.6	4.3	0.0024	2026-04-20
`CVE-2026-6796`	3.6	4.3	0.0023	2026-04-21
`CVE-2024-38280`	3.5	4.6	0.0015	2024-06-13
`CVE-2024-49762`	3.4	4.6	0.0014	2024-10-24
`CVE-2026-90842`	3.2	3.7	0.0031	2026-09-15
`CVE-2026-5769`	3.1	4.1	0.0007	2026-10-08