CWE-842
Placement of User into Incorrect Group
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Description
The product or the administrator places a user into an incorrect group.
If the incorrect group has more access or privileges than the intended group, the user might be able to bypass intended security policy to access unexpected resources or perform unexpected actions. The access-control system might not be able to detect malicious usage of this group membership.
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CVEs mapped to this weakness (2)
| CVE | Sev | Risk | CVSS | EPSS | KEV | Published | Description |
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| CVE-2024-9412 | Hig | 0.55 | — | 0.00 | Oct 8, 2024 | An improper authorization vulnerability exists in the Rockwell Automation affected products that could allow an unauthorized user to sign in. While removal of all role mappings is unlikely, it could occur in the case of unexpected or accidental removal by the administrator. If exploited, an unauthorized user could access data they previously but should no longer have access to. | |
| CVE-2026-6970 | Hig | 0.40 | — | 0.00 | Apr 27, 2026 | authd prior to version 0.6.4 contains a logic error in primary group ID assignment that can lead to local privilege escalation. When a user's primary group ID (GID) differs from their UID, either because the account was created with authd prior to version 0.5.4 or because the primary group was manually changed via the `authctl group set-gid` command, and the user's identity provider record is updated, authd incorrectly resets the user's primary group ID to their UID upon next login. This causes newly created files and directories to be owned by the wrong group, causing denial of service issues, and potentially granting unintended access to other local users and allowing local privilege escalation. |