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Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory

CWE-538 · Base · Draft

The product places sensitive information into files or directories that are accessible to actors who are allowed to have access to the files, but not to the sensitive information.

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Weakness Relationships

Where this weakness sits in the CWE hierarchy. Walk up to broader classes or down to more specific variants.
Parent of this (broader)
ChildOfCWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Children (more specific)
ParentOfCWE-532 · Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
ParentOfCWE-540 · Inclusion of Sensitive Information in Source Code
ParentOfCWE-651 · Exposure of WSDL File Containing Sensitive Information
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Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

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How adversaries exploit this weakness, per MITRE CAPEC.
CAPEC-95WSDL Scanning
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CVEs With This Weakness

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A sample of the 84 CVEs tagged with this weakness.
CVECVE-2026-7071
CVECVE-2026-6160
CVECVE-2026-33705
CVECVE-2026-2817
CVECVE-2026-23838
CVECVE-2026-21672
CVECVE-2025-8452
CVECVE-2025-68429
CVECVE-2025-61138
CVECVE-2025-58458
CVECVE-2025-57734
CVECVE-2025-57734
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Nuclei Scanner Templates

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Open-source Nuclei templates that detect this weakness class - an actionable scan-for-it pivot. Licensed under the ProjectDiscovery / Nuclei terms.
mediumCoveralls Configuration File Exposure
mediumMagento Debug Log - Exposure
lowWordPress Wordfence - WAF Logs and Data Disclosure
lowApache mod_negotiation - Pseudo Directory Listing
lowPostman Collection Exposure
lowJoe Editor DEADJOE File - Exposure
lowPython Requirements File Disclosure
lowPython History File Disclosure
infoCakefile - Exposure
External lookups - second-class, for what we don’t hold ourselves
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