VYPR

CWE-269

Improper Privilege Management

ClassDraftLikelihood: Medium

Description

The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

Hierarchy (View 1000)

Related attack patterns (CAPEC)

CAPEC-122 · CAPEC-233 · CAPEC-58

CVEs mapped to this weakness (3,702)

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  • CVE-2004-1349Oct 4, 2004
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.01

    gzip before 1.3 in Solaris 8, when called with the -f or -force flags, will change the permissions of files that are hard linked to the target files, which allows local users to view or modify these files.

  • CVE-2002-0080Mar 15, 2002
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.01

    rsync, when running in daemon mode, does not properly call setgroups before dropping privileges, which could provide supplemental group privileges to local users, who could then read certain files that would otherwise be disallowed.