OWASP Top Ten 2010 Category A7 - Insecure Cryptographic Storage
A category in the Common Weakness Enumeration published by The MITRE Corporation.
Summary
Categories in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) group entries based on some common characteristic or attribute.
Weaknesses in this category are related to the A7 category in the OWASP Top Ten 2010.
Weaknesses
The product stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere.
The product stores or transmits sensitive data using an encryption scheme that is theoretically sound, but is not strong enough for the level of protection required.
The product does not encrypt sensitive or critical information before storage or transmission.
The product uses a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm or protocol.
The product uses a one-way cryptographic hash against an input that should not be reversible, such as a password, but the product does not also use a salt as part of t...
Concepts
Deprecated or Obsolete
CWE nodes in this view (graph) are associated with the OWASP Top Ten, as released in 2010. This view is considered obsolete as a newer version of the OWASP Top Ten is ...
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