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Home/CWEs/CWE-359
Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-359: Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor

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The product does not properly prevent a person's private, personal information from being accessed by actors who either (1) are not explicitly authorized to access the information or (2) do not have the implicit consent of the person about whom the information is collected.

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▪References & documentation

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/359.htmlNVD CWE listing

▪ How attackers exploit CWE-359

MITRE ATT&CK techniques associated with this weakness class (mapped via MITRE CAPEC). A vulnerability of this type could let an adversary carry out:

T1005Data from Local SystemcollectionT1111Multi-Factor Authentication Interceptioncredential-accessT1555Credentials from Password Storescredential-accessT1606Forge Web Credentialscredential-access

Step-by-step: how CWE-359 gets exploited

A stage-by-stage walkthrough of the attack, mapped to the real MITRE ATT&CK tactics for this weakness — what the attacker is trying to do, what's at risk (what can be stolen or damaged), and how you defend. Understanding the playbook is how you shut it down.

  1. 1
    Credential accesscredential-access

    Steal passwords, tokens, keys, and session material.

    At risk / what's stolen

    Passwords, API keys, session tokens, SSH/TLS keys, and secrets in memory, env, or config.

    How you defend

    Secret managers, short-lived tokens, and no secrets in code/env/logs.

  2. 2
    Collectioncollection

    Gather the valuable data before taking it out.

    At risk / what's stolen

    Databases, files, customer records, source code, and business data.

    How you defend

    Data-access monitoring, encryption at rest, and least-privilege data access.

This is a defensive, conceptual walkthrough for education — stages reflect MITRE ATT&CK tactics associated with this weakness class, not a working exploit. Not every attack uses every stage.

▪ Related CVEs

No CVEs in the Gold index currently reference CWE-359. New matches appear here as the crawler indexes them.