CWE - CWE-264: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (4.4)

Category ID: 264

Status: Obsolete

Summary

Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features that are used to perform access control.

Membership

Nature	Type	ID	Name
MemberOf	View - a subset of CWE entries that provides a way of examining CWE content. The two main view structures are Slices (flat lists) and Graphs (containing relationships between entries).	635	Weaknesses Originally Used by NVD from 2008 to 2016

Notes

Maintenance

This entry heavily overlaps other categories and has been marked obsolete.

Maintenance

This entry is a Category, but various sources map to it anyway despite CWE guidance that Categories should not be mapped. Future mappings should use an appropriate weakness going forward.

References

[REF-7] Michael Howard and David LeBlanc. "Writing Secure Code". Chapter 7, "How Tokens, Privileges, SIDs, ACLs, and Processes Relate" Page 218. 2nd Edition. Microsoft Press. 2002-12-04. <https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/store/writing-secure-code-9780735617223>.

Content History

Submissions
Submission Date	Submitter	Organization
2006-07-19	PLOVER
2006-07-19
Modifications
Modification Date	Modifier	Organization
2008-09-08	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2008-09-08	updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2010-02-16	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2010-02-16	updated References
2011-03-29	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2011-03-29	updated Relationships
2012-10-30	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2012-10-30	updated Potential_Mitigations
2014-07-30	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2014-07-30	updated Detection_Factors
2015-12-07	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2015-12-07	updated Relationships
2017-11-08	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2017-11-08	updated Applicable_Platforms, Detection_Factors, Potential_Mitigations, References, Related_Attack_Patterns, Relationships
2018-03-27	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2018-03-27	updated References
2019-06-20	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2019-06-20	updated Relationships
2020-02-24	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2020-02-24	updated Maintenance_Notes, Relationships

Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE CATEGORY: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls


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