CWE-318: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Executable

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The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in an executable.

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Attackers can reverse engineer binary code to obtain secret data. This is especially easy when the cleartext is plain ASCII. 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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