CWE-312BaseDraft
Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
The product stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere.
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CVE-2021-36782A Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allows authenticated Cluster Owners, Cluster Members, Project Owners, Project Members and User Base to use the Kubernetes API to retrieve plaintext version of sensitive data. This issue affects: SUSE Rancher Rancher versions prior to 2.5.16; Rancher versions prior to 2.6.7.
CVE-2025-65826The mobile application was found to contain stored credentials for the network it was developed on. If an attacker retrieved this, and found the physical location of the Wi-Fi network, they could gain unauthorized access to the Wi-Fi network of the vendor. Additionally, if an attacker were located in close physical proximity to the device when it was first set up, they may be able to force the device to auto-connect to an attacker-controlled access point by setting the SSID and password to the same as which was found in the firmware file.
CVE-2025-30124An issue was discovered on Marbella KR8s Dashcam FF 2.0.8 devices. When a new SD card is inserted into the dashcam, the existing password is written onto the SD card in cleartext automatically. An attacker with temporary access to the dashcam can switch the SD card to steal this password.
CVE-2024-46340TL-WR845N(UN)_V4_201214, TP-Link TL-WR845N(UN)_V4_200909, and TL-WR845N(UN)_V4_190219 was discovered to transmit user credentials in plaintext after executing a factory reset.
CVE-2023-33373Connected IO v2.1.0 and prior keeps passwords and credentials in clear-text format, allowing attackers to exfiltrate the credentials and use them to impersonate the devices.
CVE-2023-31069An issue was discovered in TSplus Remote Access through 16.0.2.14. Credentials are stored as cleartext within the HTML source code of the login page.
CVE-2023-2809Plaintext credential usage vulnerability in Sage 200 Spain 2023.38.001 version, the exploitation of which could allow a remote attacker to extract SQL database credentials from the DLL application. This vulnerability could be linked to known techniques to obtain remote execution of MS SQL commands and escalate privileges on Windows systems because the credentials are stored in plaintext.
CVE-2022-26148An issue was discovered in Grafana through 7.3.4, when integrated with Zabbix. The Zabbix password can be found in the api_jsonrpc.php HTML source code. When the user logs in and allows the user to register, one can right click to view the source code and use Ctrl-F to search for password in api_jsonrpc.php to discover the Zabbix account password and URL address.
CVE-2021-29954Proxy functionality built into Hubs Cloud’s Reticulum software allowed access to internal URLs, including the metadata service. This vulnerability affects Hubs Cloud < mozillareality/reticulum/1.0.1/20210428201255.
CVE-2020-5723The UCM6200 series 1.0.20.22 and below stores unencrypted user passwords in an SQLite database. This could allow an attacker to retrieve all passwords and possibly gain elevated privileges.
CVE-2020-15332Zyxel CloudCNM SecuManager 3.1.0 and 3.1.1 has weak /opt/axess/etc/default/axess permissions.
CVE-2019-9873In several versions of JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, creating Task Servers configurations leads to saving a cleartext unencrypted record of the server credentials in the IDE configuration files. The issue has been fixed in the following versions: 2019.1, 2018.3.5, 2018.2.8, and 2018.1.8.
CVE-2019-9823In several JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA versions, creating remote run configurations of JavaEE application servers leads to saving a cleartext record of the server credentials in the IDE configuration files. The issue has been fixed in the following versions: 2018.3.5, 2018.2.8, 2018.1.8.
CVE-2019-19228Fronius Solar Inverter devices before 3.14.1 (HM 1.12.1) allow attackers to bypass authentication because the password for the today account is stored in the /tmp/web_users.conf file.
CVE-2019-18868Blaauw Remote Kiln Control through v3.00r4 allows an unauthenticated attacker to access MySQL credentials in cleartext in /engine/db.inc, /lang/nl.bak, or /lang/en.bak.