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CWE-284 Individual Dictionary Definition (Draft 9)
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| Status: Incomplete 284 (Weakness Class) | | Description | Summary Improper administration of the permissions to the users of a system can result in
unintended access to sensitive files. An access control list (ACL) represents who/what has
permissions to a given object. Different operating systems implement (ACLs) in different ways. In
UNIX, there are three types of permissions: read, write, and execute. Users are divided into three
classes for file access: owner, group owner, and all other users where each class has a separate
set of rights. In Windows NT, there are four basic types of permissions for files: "No access",
"Read access", "Change access", and "Full control". Windows NT extends the concept of three types
of users in UNIX to include a list of users and groups along with their associated permissions. A
user can create an object (file) and assign specified permissions to that object. | | Affected Resource | File/Directory | | Potential Mitigations | Very carefully manage the setting, management and handling of privileges. Explicitly
manage trust zones in the software. Design: Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design
and that the compartmentalization serves to allow for and further reinforce privilege
separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least
privilege to decide when it is appropriate to use and to drop system privileges. | | Context Notes | This item needs more work. Possible sub-categories include: -Trusted group includes
undesired entities - Group can perform undesired actions - ACL parse error does not fail closed. | | Relationships | | | Source Taxonomies | PLOVER - Access Control List (ACL) errors | | Related Attack Patterns | | CAPEC-ID | Attack Pattern Name |
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