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Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Memory

CVE-2021-32942

Severity Medium
Score 6.6/10

Summary

The vulnerability could expose cleartext credentials from AVEVA InTouch Runtime 2020 R2 and all prior versions (WindowViewer) if an authorized, privileged user creates a diagnostic memory dump of the process and saves it to a non-protected location.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-316 - Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Memory

The application stores sensitive information in cleartext in memory.

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published