CWE-313: Cleartext Storage in a File or on Disk

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The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in a file, or on disk.

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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.

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