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CWE-277: Insecure Inherited Permissions

Official CWE-277 CWE context with Glexia analysis, remediation guidance, related CVEs, and ATT&CK context.

Release 4.20weaknessDraft
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Glexia's Take

CWE-277: Insecure Inherited Permissions

Insecure Inherited Permissions represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.

Executive Impact

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

Developer Pattern

CWE-277 is the kind of defect developers can usually prevent with explicit validation, safer framework defaults, and tests that exercise hostile input or unsafe state transitions.

Confidence

high confidence from CWE-277, 4.20.

Official CWE Definition

CWE-277: Insecure Inherited Permissions

A product defines a set of insecure permissions that are inherited by objects that are created by the program.

Type
weakness
Abstraction
Variant
Status
Draft
Source
MITRE CWE definition

Developer And Remediation Guidance

How teams prevent and detect this weakness

Causes

  • Missing validation
  • Unsafe defaults
  • Insufficient authorization or memory-safety invariant

Remediation

  • Architecture and Design,Operation: Very carefully manage the setting, management, and handling of privileges. Explicitly manage trust zones in the software.
  • Architecture and Design: [object Object]

Detection

  • Code review
  • SAST
  • DAST
  • Focused regression tests

Mappings

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ATT&CK Relevance

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