CWE-267
Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions
Description
A particular privilege, role, capability, or right can be used to perform unsafe actions that were not intended, even when it is assigned to the correct entity.
Parent Weaknesses (ChildOf)
Common Consequences
Scope
Impact
Gain Privileges or Assume Identity
Potential Mitigations
Very carefully manage the setting, management, and handling of privileges. Explicitly manage trust zones in the software.
Run your code using the lowest privileges that are required to accomplish the necessary tasks [REF-76]. If possible, create isolated accounts with limited privileges that are only used for a single task. That way, a successful attack will not immediately give the attacker access to the rest of the software or its environment. For example, database applications rarely need to run as the database administrator, especially in day-to-day operations.
CVE-2002-1981Roles have access to dangerous procedures (Accessible entities).
CVE-2002-1671Untrusted object/method gets access to clipboard (Accessible entities).
CVE-2004-2204Gain privileges using functions/tags that should be restricted (Accessible entities).
CVE-2000-0315Traceroute program allows unprivileged users to modify source address of packet (Accessible entities).
CVE-2004-0380Bypass domain restrictions using a particular file that references unsafe URI schemes (Accessible entities).
CVE-2002-1154Script does not restrict access to an update command, leading to resultant disk consumption and filled error logs (Accessible entities).
CVE-2002-1145"public" database user can use stored procedure to modify data controlled by the database owner (Unsafe privileged actions).
CVE-2000-0506User with capability can prevent setuid program from dropping privileges (Unsafe privileged actions).
CVE-2002-2042Allows attachment to and modification of privileged processes (Unsafe privileged actions).
CVE-2000-1212User with privilege can edit raw underlying object using unprotected method (Unsafe privileged actions).
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