CWE-261—Weak Encoding for Password

名称

Weak Encoding for Password

描述

Obscuring a password with a trivial encoding does not protect the password.

Password management issues occur when a password is stored in plaintext in an application's properties or configuration file. A programmer can attempt to remedy the password management problem by obscuring the password with an encoding function, such as base 64 encoding, but this effort does not adequately protect the password.

常见后果

范围：

Access Control

影响：

Gain Privileges or Assume Identity

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