CWE-265 Categorie Detail

CWE-265

Privilege Issues
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2006-07-19 +00:00
2023-06-29 +00:00
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Name: Privilege Issues

Weaknesses in this category occur with improper handling, assignment, or management of privileges. A privilege is a property of an agent, such as a user. It lets the agent do things that are not ordinarily allowed. For example, there are privileges which allow an agent to perform maintenance functions such as restart a computer.

CWE Members List

CWE-243: Creation of chroot Jail Without Changing Working Directory Base

CWE-250: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges Base

CWE-266: Incorrect Privilege Assignment Base

CWE-267: Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions Base

CWE-268: Privilege Chaining Base

CWE-270: Privilege Context Switching Error Base

CWE-272: Least Privilege Violation Base

CWE-273: Improper Check for Dropped Privileges Base

CWE-274: Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges Base

CWE-280: Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges Base

CWE-501: Trust Boundary Violation Base

CWE-580: clone() Method Without super.clone() Base

CWE-648: Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs Base

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Vulnerability Mapping Notes

Justification : This entry is a Category. Using categories for mapping has been discouraged since 2019. Categories are informal organizational groupings of weaknesses that can help CWE users with data aggregation, navigation, and browsing. However, they are not weaknesses in themselves.
Comment : See member weaknesses of this category.

Submission

Name Organization Date Date release Version
PLOVER 2006-07-19 +00:00 2006-07-19 +00:00 Draft 3

Modifications

Name Organization Date Comment
CWE Content Team MITRE 2008-09-08 +00:00 updated Description, Relationships, Relationship_Notes, Taxonomy_Mappings, Theoretical_Notes
CWE Content Team MITRE 2008-10-14 +00:00 updated Description, Research_Gaps, Theoretical_Notes
CWE Content Team MITRE 2009-12-28 +00:00 updated Potential_Mitigations
CWE Content Team MITRE 2010-06-21 +00:00 updated Potential_Mitigations
CWE Content Team MITRE 2011-03-29 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2012-10-30 +00:00 updated Potential_Mitigations
CWE Content Team MITRE 2014-07-30 +00:00 updated Detection_Factors
CWE Content Team MITRE 2017-11-08 +00:00 updated Detection_Factors, Potential_Mitigations, Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2020-02-24 +00:00 updated Description, Name, Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-04-27 +00:00 updated Mapping_Notes
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-06-29 +00:00 updated Mapping_Notes