CWE-318

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Executable

The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in an executable.

CVE-2022-34388 (GCVE-0-2022-34388)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-10 20:18
Modified
2025-03-26 15:30
CWE
  • CWE-318 - Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Executable
Summary
Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs (version 3.11.4 and prior) and  SupportAssist for Business PCs (version 3.2.0 and prior) contain information disclosure vulnerability. A local malicious user with low privileges could exploit this vulnerability to view and modify sensitive information in the database of the affected application.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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No mitigation information available for this CWE.

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