Weakness (CWE)
CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
The product specifies permissions for a security-critical resource in a way that allows that resource to be read or modified by unintended actors.
How to prevent it (8 mitigations)
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Implementation
When using a critical resource such as a configuration file, check to see if the resource has insecure permissions (such as being modifiable by any regular user) [REF-62], and generate an error or even exit the software if there is a possibility that the resource could have been modified by an unauthorized party.
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Architecture and Design
Divide the software into anonymous, normal, privileged, and administrative areas. Reduce the attack surface by carefully defining distinct user groups, privileges, and/or roles. Map these against data, functionality, and the related resources. Then set the permissions accordingly. This will allow you to maintain more fine-grained control over your resources. [REF-207]
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Architecture and Design, Operation
Run the code in a "jail" or similar sandbox environment that enforces strict boundaries between the process and the operating system. This may effectively restrict which files can be accessed in a particular directory or which commands can be executed by the software.
OS-level examples include the Unix chroot jail, AppArmor, and SELinux. In general, managed code may provide some protection. For example, java.io.FilePermission in the Java SecurityManager allows the software to specify restrictions on file operations.
This may not be a feasible solution, and it only limits the impact to the operating system; the rest of the application may still be subject to compromise.
Be careful to avoid CWE-243 and other weaknesses related to jails.
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Implementation, Installation
During program startup, explicitly set the default permissions or umask to the most restrictive setting possible. Also set the appropriate permissions during program installation. This will prevent you from inheriting insecure permissions from any user who installs or runs the program.
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System Configuration
For all configuration files, executables, and libraries, make sure that they are only readable and writable by the software's administrator.
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Documentation
Do not suggest insecure configuration changes in documentation, especially if those configurations can extend to resources and other programs that are outside the scope of the application.
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Installation
Do not assume that a system administrator will manually change the configuration to the settings that are recommended in the software's manual.
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Operation, System Configuration
Ensure that the software runs properly under the United States Government Configuration Baseline (USGCB) [REF-199] or an equivalent hardening configuration guide, which many organizations use to limit the attack surface and potential risk of deployed software.
Source: MITRE CWE-732
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Medium 6.8
Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in boneIO
boneIO black_debian_images stores the Mosquitto MQTT broker password file at /etc/mosquitto/passwd with world-readable permissions. Any local user can read the password hashes for all MQTT accounts and perform offline dictionary attacks. This issue was fixed …
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High 7.8
Zimbra Collaboration Suite Local Privilege Escalation via Unrestricted zmunbound Sudo Configuration
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the optional dnscache package of Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) allows the Unix zimbra account to access files with root privileges. The passwordless sudo policy permits arbitrary arguments to zmunbound, whose w…
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High 7.8
Zimbra Collaboration Suite Local Privilege Escalation via Unrestricted Postfix Sudo Permissions
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) MTA package allows the Unix zimbra account to execute arbitrary commands as root. The installed sudo policy permits passwordless root execution of Postfix administration comman…
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Critical 9.3
Local Privilege Escalation in CGM CLININET
CGM CLININET is vulnerable to local privilege escalation. The service that processes incoming HL7 messages runs with root privileges, but due to incorrect permissions, its scripts and configuration files can be modified by the uhcapache user. An attacker with…
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Medium 6.8
Insecure File Permissions in CGM CLININET
The CGM CLININET application stores the production database login and password, as well as RabbitMQ broker credentials, in the SysIO.pl configuration file. Insecure file permissions make this file readable by any local account. This issue was fixed in versio…
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High 7.3
WatchGuard Agent Incorrect Permission Assignment in Log Directory Allows Local Log Tampering
An incorrect permission assignment vulnerability in the WatchGuard Agent's log directory allows a local, authenticated non-administrative user to create, modify, append to, or delete the agent's log files and write other files into the directory. This allows …
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Medium 6.9
Endpoint Security Cleartext Storage of FileVault Recovery Key in Log File
A cleartext storage of sensitive information vulnerability in WatchGuard Endpoint Security's Full Disk Encryption feature for macOS allows a local, unprivileged user or process to obtain a managed computer's FileVault Personal Recovery Key by reading a persis…
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High 7.8
NoMachine Named Pipe Incorrect Permission Assignment Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
NoMachine Named Pipe Incorrect Permission Assignment Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of NoMachine. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-pr…
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High 7.8
Cisco Expressway Series Software Hardening Release: October 2026 - Incorrect Permission Assignment Vulnerabilities
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Expressway Series software engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in software hardening releases that address mul…
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Medium 6.2
Adm-zip before 0.6.1 Privilege Escalation via keepOriginalPermission Setuid Bits
Adm-zip before 0.6.1 contains an incorrect permission assignment vulnerability that allows attackers to set setuid, setgid, or sticky bits on extracted files when keepOriginalPermission is enabled. Attackers can craft zip external file attributes that pass un…
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Medium 4.4
virtualenv: Seeded files retain permissions from an older cache
virtualenv is a tool for creating isolated virtual python environments. Prior to 21.14.9, the app-data copy seeder uses shutil.copy() to copy cached package files into later environments, causing cached source modes to override the current run's umask. A cach…
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High 7.0
Dell Application Store, versions prior to 26.05.0.7, contain an Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource v…
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Medium 5.0
EA Javelin Anticheat Installer Local Privilege Escalation
Incorrect permission assignment (CWE-732) in the standalone installer for EA Javelin Anticheat (versions 1.0.14329371, 1.0.14547437, 1.0.14789537, and 1.0.14940698) on Windows allows a local non-administrative user to elevate privileges to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM…
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Medium 5.5
Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in lomiri-download-manager
Incorrect DBus policy for lomiri-download-manager allows arbitrary user to run arbitrary command as root over DBus
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High 7.8
Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in lomiri-download-manager
Incorrect DBus policy for lomiri-upload-manager (part of lomiri-download-manager) allows arbitrary user to read arbitrary file as root over DBus
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Medium 6.5
Apache Airflow Keycloak provider: Keycloak multi-team provisioning grants every team role global audit-log read
The Apache Airflow Keycloak provider's multi-team provisioning (`_attach_team_permissions`) granted every team role global read access to audit logs. Deployments that enable multi-team mode with the Keycloak auth manager and provision teams through it are aff…
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Medium 5.8
AsyncHttpClient: Resumable download index store is created world-readable and follows a planted symlink
The AsyncHttpClient library allows Java applications to execute HTTP requests and asynchronously process HTTP responses. From 2.0.0 until 2.16.1 and 3.0.12, PropertiesBasedResumableProcessor stores resumable download state at the predictable shared path $java…
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High 8.5
**Privilege Escalation** World-writable crontab path monitored and executed by root-owned process
An incorrect permission assignment for critical resource vulnerability has been reported to affect Notes Station 3. If a local attacker gains a user account, they can then exploit the vulnerability to compromise the security of the system. We have already fix…
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High 8.4
ds-move-files.sh is writable and executed as root
An incorrect permission assignment for critical resource vulnerability has been reported to affect Download Station. If a local attacker gains an administrator account, they can then exploit the vulnerability to compromise the security of the system. We have …
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Medium 6.2
sdbootutil: world-readable debug log
On request the `sdbootutil` script creates a world-readable debug log in /var/log/sdbootutil.log. The log file is created world-readable, however, which means that arbitrary low-privileged users in the system will be able to extract secrets from it.
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High 8.8
MOVEit Transfer Service Directory Writable by Local Users Enables Local Privilege Escalation
Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in Progress MOVEit Transfer. This issue affects MOVEit Transfer: before 2025.1.6 and from 2026.0.0 before 2026.0.4.
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Medium 5.8
Gitea local code execution through writable Git hooks
Gitea creates server-side Git hook directories and scripts with mode 0777 and relies on the process umask to restrict access. With a permissive umask such as 0000 or 0002, another local user who can reach the repository storage may modify a hook or add an exe…
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Medium 5.3
Insecure Default File Permissions in Okta RADIUS Agent Windows Installer
The Okta RADIUS Agent Windows installer assigns write permissions to the NT SERVICE\ALL SERVICES and CREATOR OWNER security principals on the directories containing the agent configuration, AES encryption key, and logs. These permissions allow any local servi…
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High 7.8
Windows Container Isolation FS Filter Driver (unionfs.sys) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Improper access control in Windows Container Isolation FS Filter Driver (unionfs.sys) allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
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High 7.8
Windows Mobile Broadband Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Incorrect permission assignment for critical resource in Windows Mobile Broadband allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
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High 7.8
An incorrect permission assignment for critical resource issue exists in AssetView, AssetView CLOUD, and AssetView Clou…
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High 8.9
Code for IBMi: Uses IBM i components with blind check allowing arbitrary code execution
Code for IBMi is a Visual Studio Code extension for maintaining and compiling ILE languages on the IBMi platform. Prior to 3.0.1, IBMi components implementing IBMiComponent were accepted after checking that a procedure existed without reliably verifying compo…
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High 7.1
Incorrect log file permissions in Progress MarkLogic Server
Progress MarkLogic Server 12.x releases before 12.1.0 and 11.x releases before 11.3.7 assign overly permissive operating-system permissions to certain log files, which could allow a local user to read or alter log data. The corrected default permissions apply…
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High 7.8
Edgeless Systems Contrast 1.8.0 before 1.24.1 World-Writable Containerd Config Privilege Escalation
Edgeless Systems Contrast 1.8.0 before 1.24.1 contains an incorrect permissions vulnerability where the node installer writes the containerd config world-writable (0666). Local unprivileged users on the node can modify the containerd config, for example overw…
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Medium 6.6
FreeRDP 2.0.0 before 3.32.0 Insecure Private Key Permissions in winpr-makecert
FreeRDP from 2.0.0 before 3.32.0 contains an insecure permission vulnerability in winpr-makecert that creates unencrypted private keys without owner-only file modes. Local users on multi-user Unix hosts can read world-readable key files or open PFX files prot…
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Medium 4.4
FreeRDP 3.0.0 before 3.32.0 Insecure Permissions on Soft-Smartcard Private Key File
FreeRDP from 3.0.0 before 3.32.0 contains an incorrect permission assignment vulnerability that allows local users to read private keys written by crypto_write_pem without owner-only permissions. Attackers on multi-user Unix hosts can enumerate the shared tem…
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Medium 5.5
GenOffice through 0.11.505 Insecure Permissions in HTTP MCP Server File Store
GenOffice through 0.11.505 contains an incorrect permissions vulnerability in its HTTP MCP server file store that allows local unprivileged users to read uploaded and generated documents. Attackers can list the world-readable genoffice-mcp-http directory unde…
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High 8.4
MariaDB: Insecure $HOME in MariaDB rpm packages
MariaDB server is a community developed fork of MySQL server. From 10.6.1 until 10.6.28, 10.11.19, 11.4.13, 11.8.9, 12.3.3, and 13.0.2, MariaDB RPM packages created the dedicated mysql service account with the database data directory as its home directory. A …
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Medium 6.3
Dell Secure Connect Gateway (SCG) Policy Manager, versions prior to 5.34.00.16, contains an Incorrect Permission Assign…
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High 7.8
World-accessible IPC shared memory with predictable name in TightVNC Server
Incorrect permission assignment in GlavSoft TightVNC Server for Windows before 2.8.88 allows a local authenticated user to read or overwrite the inter-process communication handles used between the TightVNC service and its desktop server process. The named sh…
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High 7.0
An improper file permission and missing authorization vulnerability exists in the diagnostic kernel module subsystem of…
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Medium 6.3
Incorrect Permission Assignment for App Key Value Store Collections in Splunk Secure Gateway
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.4.3, 10.2.7, 10.0.10, and 9.4.15, and Splunk Secure Gateway versions below 3.10.11, 3.9.25, and 3.8.72, an authenticated user who does not hold the "admin" or "sc_admin" Splunk roles could modify Splunk Secure Gateway al…
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High 8.1
Gitea tag delete route deletes releases without release permission
The Gitea web route for deleting tags (`POST /{owner}/{repo}/tags/delete`) requires only write access to the Code unit, but shares its handler with release deletion and did not check that the target was a plain tag. A collaborator with Code write access and w…
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High 8.2
Dell System Update, versions prior to 2.3.0.0, contains an Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulner…
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High 8.4
Quasar Framework: Development TLS private keys are cached with overly permissive filesystem permissions
Quasar Framework is a framework for building high-performance Vue.js user interfaces. Prior to @quasar/ssl-certificate 2.1.0, @quasar/cli 5.0.4, and @quasar/app-vite 3.3.0, the @quasar/ssl-certificate utility cached a combined private key and certificate PEM …