Passwords in Active Directory Description Fields Risk
🟠High | Source: The Register — Security Passwords were found stored in plaintext within Active Directory user and computer description fields, making them trivially accessible to any authenticated user on the network. Because AD description fields are readable by all domain users by default, a low-privilege attacker or compromised account could harvest credentials at scale with a simple LDAP query. This represents a significant credential exposure risk in any hybrid or cloud-connected environment where AD is the identity backbone. ...