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CWE-708: Incorrect Ownership Assignment

Base Incomplete

The product assigns an owner to a resource, but the owner is outside of the intended control sphere.

How to prevent it (1 mitigation)
  1. Policy

    Periodically review the privileges and their owners.

Source: MITRE CWE-708

23 results · Feed

  • Medium 4.0

    The multi-user installer in Nix before 2.35.3 sets the ownership of store contents to the user (who invoked the install…

  • Low 3.8

    PostgreSQL ALTER TABLE ALTER TYPE resets extended statistics ownership

    Incorrect ownership assignment in PostgreSQL ALTER TABLE ALTER TYPE command reassigns ownership of dependent statistics objects to the current user. This wrongly allows the table owner to run DROP STATISTICS and ALTER STATISTICS via this improper ownership. I…

  • High 8.1

    HomeBox has Unauthorized API Access via Retained defaultGroup ID After Group Access Revocation

    HomeBox is a home inventory and organization system. Versions prior to 0.25.0 contain a vulnerability where the defaultGroup ID remained permanently assigned to a user after being invited to a group, even after their access to that group was revoked. While th…

  • Medium 5.3

    Timing ownership claim attack on new external back-end secrets

    A race condition in the secrets management subsystem of Juju versions 3.0.0 through 3.6.18 allows an authenticated unit agent to claim ownership of a newly initialized secret. Between generating a Juju Secret ID and creating the secret's first revision, an at…

  • Low 1.9

    Ubuntu Apport Insecure File Permissions Vulnerability

    It was discovered that process_crash() in data/apport in Canonical's Apport crash reporting tool may create crash files with incorrect group ownership, possibly exposing crash information beyond expected or intended groups.

  • Medium 5.3

    Jobs can be saved as workflows with wrong permissions on KNIME Business Hub

    A wrong permission check in KNIME Business Hub before version 1.17.0 allowed an authenticated user to save jobs of other users as if there were saved by the job owner. The attacker must have permissions to access the jobs but then they were saved into the cat…

  • Low 3.5

    Incorrect Ownership Assignment in GitLab

    An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.10 before 18.2.7, 18.3 before 18.3.3, and 18.4 before 18.4.1 that could have allowed an authenticated user to gain unauthorized access to confidential issues by creating a project wit…

  • High 7.8

    A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Snapshot functionality of Parallels Desktop for Mac version 20.1.1 (…

  • Medium —

    Lemmy user purging users or communities or banning users can delete images they didn't upload/exclusively use

    ### Summary An improper uploaded media ownership check can result in inadvertent deletion of media when a user is banned with content removal or purged. This can lead to deletion of media that was not uploaded by the banned/purged user. This also applies to p…

  • Medium 6.0

    Zoom Apps for macOS - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

    Uncontrolled resource consumption in the installer for some Zoom apps for macOS before version 6.1.5 may allow a privileged user to conduct a disclosure of information via local access.

  • Medium 4.9

    Zoom Workplace Apps - Incorrect Ownership Assignment

    Incorrect ownership assignment in some Zoom Workplace Apps may allow a privileged user to conduct an information disclosure via network access.

  • Low 3.1

    Incorrect Ownership Assignment in GitLab

    An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 16.3 before 17.4.2, all versions starting from 17.5 before 17.5.4, all versions starting from 17.6 before 17.6.2. This issue allows an attacker to create a group with a name mat…

  • Medium 6.7

    Incorrect file ownership of privileged service's libraries in Enel X JuiceBox

    Under certain conditions, access to service libraries is granted to account they should not have access to.

  • Medium 6.5

    IBM Global Configuration Management incorrect ownership assignment

    IBM Global Configuration Management 7.0.2 and 7.0.3 could allow an authenticated user to archive a global baseline due to improper access controls.

  • Low 3.7

    Deleting a collaboration should also delete linked resources

    vantage6 is privacy preserving federated learning infrastructure. When a collaboration is deleted, the linked resources (such as tasks from that collaboration) should be deleted. This is partly to manage data properly, but also to prevent a potential (but unl…

  • Medium 5.3

    Incorrect Ownership Assignment in GitLab

    An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 15.9 before 16.0.8, all versions starting from 16.1 before 16.1.3, all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.2.2. It was possible to takeover GitLab Pages with unique domain URL…

  • Medium 6.7

    A vulnerability in Cisco CX Cloud Agent of could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate their privileges. Th…

  • Medium 6.7

    A vulnerability in Cisco CX Cloud Agent of could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate their privileges. Th…

  • Unscored —

    The OpenVPN Access Server installer creates a log file readable for everyone, which from version 2.10.0 and before 2.11…

  • High 7.3

    Contrail Service Orchestration: An authenticated local user may have their permissions elevated via the device via management interface without authentication

    An Incorrect Ownership Assignment vulnerability in Juniper Networks Contrail Service Orchestration (CSO) allows a locally authenticated user to have their permissions elevated without authentication thereby taking control of the local system they are currentl…

  • Medium 5.9

    Philips MRI 1.5T and 3T Incorrect Ownership Assignment

    Philips MRI 1.5T and MRI 3T Version 5.3 through 5.8.1 does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.

  • High 7.1

    Webauthn tokens not removed after user has been deleted

    Nextcloud Server is a Nextcloud package that handles data storage. In versions prior to 19.0.13, 20.011, and 21.0.3, webauthn tokens were not deleted after a user has been deleted. If a victim reused an earlier used username, the previous user could gain acce…

  • High 8.1

    Nextcloud Talk not properly disassociating users from chats after account deletion

    Nextcloud Talk is a fully on-premises audio/video and chat communication service. In versions prior to 11.2.2, if a user was able to reuse an earlier used username, they could get access to any chat message sent to the previous user with this username. The is…