Weakness · Medium
CWE-525: Use of Web Browser Cache Containing Sensitive Information
What it is
The web application does not use an appropriate caching policy that specifies the extent to which each web page and associated form fields should be cached.
- Severity (our rating)
- Medium
- Likelihood of exploit
- Not rated by MITRE
- Introduced during
- Implementation
- Exploited in the wild
- No CVE in CISA's catalog
What an attacker can do
- Read Application Data (Confidentiality)
How to prevent it
Architecture and Design
- Protect information stored in cache.
- Use a restrictive caching policy for forms and web pages that potentially contain sensitive information.
- Do not store unnecessarily sensitive information in the cache.
- Consider using encryption in the cache.
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