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CWE-708 — Incorrect Ownership Assignment

provenance: imported · CWE: CWE-708

CWE-708: Incorrect Ownership Assignment

MITRE CWE weakness

Kind Weakness
Abstraction Base
Status Incomplete
Likelihood of exploit

Description

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

This may allow the resource to be manipulated by actors outside of the intended control sphere.

Common consequences

  • Confidentiality, Integrity: Read Application Data, Modify Application Data

Mitigations

Policy — Periodically review the privileges and their owners.

References

  • CWE page: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/708.html
  • CWE list: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/index.html