VYPR

CWE-273

Improper Check for Dropped Privileges

BaseIncompleteLikelihood: Medium

Description

The product attempts to drop privileges but does not check or incorrectly checks to see if the drop succeeded.

If the drop fails, the product will continue to run with the raised privileges, which might provide additional access to unprivileged users.

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CVEs mapped to this weakness (41)

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  • CVE-2015-0278May 18, 2015
    risk 0.00cvss epss 0.03

    libuv before 0.10.34 does not properly drop group privileges, which allows context-dependent attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.