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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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  • 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…

  • 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 chromium-rust Debian Ubuntu Alpine crates.io