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CWE-278: Insecure Preserved Inherited Permissions

Variant Incomplete

A product inherits a set of insecure permissions for an object, e.g. when copying from an archive file, without user awareness or involvement.

How to prevent it (2 mitigations)

  1. Architecture and Design, Operation

    Very carefully manage the setting, management, and handling of privileges. Explicitly manage trust zones in the software.

  2. Architecture and Design

    Compartmentalize the system to have "safe" areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.

    Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

Source: MITRE CWE-278

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  • Medium 6.7
    CVE-2026-71477

    mise: Incorrect file ownership, when installed by the root user using `install.sh`

    mise manages dev tools like node, python, cmake, and terraform. Prior to 2026.7.1, release tar archives record mise/bin/mise with user and group ID 1001 and packaging/standalone/install.envsubst extracts and moves it without normalizing ownership, allowing a …

    jdx mise
  • High 7.3
    CVE-2026-6265

    Local Privilege Escalation in Cerberus FTP Server =< 2025.4.2

    Insecure preserved inherited permissions vulnerability in Cerberus FTP Server on Windows allows Privilege Escalation.This issue has been resolved in Cerberus FTP Server: 2026.1

    Cerberus Cerberus FTP Server
  • High 7.2
    CVE-2025-2947

    IBM i privilege escalation

    IBM i 7.6  contains a privilege escalation vulnerability due to incorrect profile swapping in an OS command.  A malicious actor can use the command to elevate privileges to gain root access to the host operating system.

    IBM i
  • High 8.8
    CVE-2024-36538

    Insecure permissions in chaos-mesh v2.6.3 allows attackers to access sensitive data and escalate privileges by obtainin…

  • High 8.8
    CVE-2024-37769

    Insecure permissions in 14Finger v1.1 allow attackers to escalate privileges from normal user to Administrator via a cr…

  • Low 3.6
    CVE-2024-38531

    Nix sandbox escape

    Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. A build process has access to and can change the permissions of the build directory. After creating a setuid binary in a globally accessible loc…

    NixOS Nix nix nix Debian Ubuntu
  • High 7.8
    CVE-2023-38497 Public exploit

    Cargo not respecting umask when extracting crate archives

    Cargo downloads the Rust project’s dependencies and compiles the project. Cargo prior to version 0.72.2, bundled with Rust prior to version 1.71.1, did not respect the umask when extracting crate archives on UNIX-like systems. If the user downloaded a crate c…

    rust-lang cargo rustc rust Debian Ubuntu Alpine crates.io
  • Critical 9.3
    CVE-2019-14910

    Keycloak Authentication Error

    A vulnerability was found in keycloak 7.x, when keycloak is configured with LDAP user federation and StartTLS is used instead of SSL/TLS from the LDAP server (ldaps), in this case user authentication succeeds even if invalid password has entered.

    org.keycloak:keycloak-parent Maven