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CWE-515: Covert Storage Channel

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A covert storage channel transfers information through the setting of bits by one program and the reading of those bits by another. What distinguishes this case from that of ordinary operation is that the bits are used to convey encoded information.

What the weakness is: CWE-515 at MITRE. All weaknesses

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