CWE-315 8 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-315: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in a Cookie

Overview

CWE-315 (Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in a Cookie) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.

Security impact
Security impact: Depends on product and context; use CVE records, severity scores, and MITRE guidance to prioritize.

Description

The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in a cookie.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language Not Language-Specific Undetermined

Related CVEs in this database

These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.

CVE Published Summary
CVE-2026-25818 2026-03-13 HMS Networks Ewon Flexy with firmware before 15.0s4, Cosy+ with firmware 22.xx before 22.1s6, and Cosy+ with firmware 23.xx before 23.0s3 have weak entropy for authentication cookies, allowing an atta…
CVE-2025-8528 2025-08-04 A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Exrick xboot up to 3.3.4. Affected is an unknown function of the file /xboot/permission/getMenuList. The manipulation leads to cleartext sto…
CVE-2025-4537 2025-05-11 A vulnerability was found in yangzongzhuan RuoYi-Vue up to 3.8.9 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file ruoyi-ui/jsencrypt.js and ruoyi-ui/logi…
CVE-2024-41290 2024-10-02 FlatPress CMS v1.3.1 1.3 was discovered to use insecure methods to store authentication data via the cookie's component.
CVE-2024-8644 2024-09-27 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in a Cookie vulnerability in Oceanic Software ValeApp allows Protocol Manipulation, : JSON Hijacking (aka JavaScript Hijacking). This issue affects ValeApp:…
CVE-2024-24768 2024-02-05 1Panel is an open source Linux server operation and maintenance management panel. The HTTPS cookie that comes with the panel does not have the Secure keyword, which may cause the cookie to be sent in …
CVE-2021-34564 2021-08-31 Any cookie-stealing vulnerabilities within the application or browser would enable an attacker to steal the user's credentials to the PEPPERL+FUCHS WirelessHART-Gateway 3.0.9.
CVE-2018-19941 2020-12-31 A vulnerability has been reported to affect QNAP NAS. If exploited, this vulnerability allows an attacker to access sensitive information stored in cleartext inside cookies via certain widely-availabl…

Previous names

  • Plaintext Storage in Cookie (2008-04-11)
  • Plaintext Storage in a Cookie (2013-07-17)

Content submission

Name
PLOVER
Date
2006-07-19
Version
Draft 3

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2008-07-01 Sean Eidemiller 1.0 added/updated demonstrative examples
2008-07-01 Eric Dalci 1.0 updated Time_of_Introduction
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Demonstrative_Examples, Relationships
2013-07-17 CWE Content Team 2.5 updated Applicable_Platforms, Demonstrative_Examples, Description, Name, Observed_Examples, Potential_Mitigations, Terminology_Notes
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Demonstrative_Examples, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Modes_of_Introduction, Relationships
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Relationships
2021-10-28 CWE Content Team 4.6 updated Relationships
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Description
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Detection_Factors, Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Relationships, Weakness_Ordinalities

Contributions

Type Name Date Comment
Content Camille Gouttebroze 2024-10-28 reported a syntax error in demox 1
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