VYPR

CWE-732

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

ClassDraftLikelihood: High

Description

The product specifies permissions for a security-critical resource in a way that allows that resource to be read or modified by unintended actors.

When a resource is given a permission setting that provides access to a wider range of actors than required, it could lead to the exposure of sensitive information, or the modification of that resource by unintended parties. This is especially dangerous when the resource is related to program configuration, execution, or sensitive user data. For example, consider a misconfigured storage account for the cloud that can be read or written by a public or anonymous user.

Hierarchy (View 1000)

Related attack patterns (CAPEC)

CAPEC-1 · CAPEC-122 · CAPEC-127 · CAPEC-17 · CAPEC-180 · CAPEC-206 · CAPEC-234 · CAPEC-60 · CAPEC-61 · CAPEC-62 · CAPEC-642

CVEs mapped to this weakness (623)

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  • CVE-2008-4870Nov 1, 2008
    Dovecot (software)
    Dovecot
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.00

    dovecot 1.0.7 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, and possibly Fedora, uses world-readable permissions for dovecot.conf, which allows local users to obtain the ssl_key_password parameter value.

  • CVE-2008-3789Aug 27, 2008
    Samba (software)
    Samba
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.01

    Samba 3.2.0 uses weak permissions (0666) for the (1) group_mapping.tdb and (2) group_mapping.ldb files, which allows local users to modify the membership of Unix groups.

  • CVE-2008-0884Apr 4, 2008
    Red Hat
    lspp-eal4-config-ibm
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.00

    The Replace function in the capp-lspp-config script in the (1) lspp-eal4-config-ibm and (2) capp-lspp-eal4-config-hp packages before 0.65-2 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 uses lstat instead of stat to determine the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file permissions, leading to a…