Cyber Resilience

CWE · MITRE source

CWE-313Cleartext Storage in a File or on Disk

Abstraction: Variant · CVEs in our corpus: 31

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: 20 August 2026 13:14 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 that address this weakness (1)AI-assisted

Control Title Family Why it addresses this CWE
SC-28Protection of Information at RestSCMandating 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 6.88.80.01062018-07-06
CVE-2025-5098 6.89.10.00292025-05-23
CVE-2016-6546 5.87.80.00412018-07-13
CVE-2016-6547 5.87.80.00412018-07-13
CVE-2026-527835.68.20.00132026-06-26
CVE-2025-4397 4.96.80.00132026-05-07
CVE-2026-146634.96.50.00112026-08-13
CVE-2025-64305 4.86.50.00152026-01-07
CVE-2026-24349 4.87.10.00062026-06-09
CVE-2025-361544.56.20.00092025-12-24
CVE-2019-19291 4.45.30.00752020-03-10
CVE-2024-204484.46.30.00122024-10-02
CVE-2026-5531 4.35.30.00202026-04-05
CVE-2023-4066 4.25.50.00152023-09-27
CVE-2018-10622 4.15.20.00362018-08-10
CVE-2024-67854.15.50.00112024-09-21
CVE-2024-30406 4.05.50.00142024-04-12
CVE-2023-35699 3.95.30.00202023-07-10
CVE-2024-59163.64.40.00252024-08-14
CVE-2024-38280 3.54.60.00152024-06-13
CVE-2026-65983.54.30.00152026-04-20
CVE-2026-67963.54.30.00152026-04-21
CVE-2024-49762 3.44.60.00142024-10-24
CVE-2023-0114 2.73.30.00142023-01-07
CVE-2025-14836 2.42.70.00202025-12-17