CWE-282: Improper Ownership Management | Glexia
CWE-282 (Improper Ownership Management) weakness overview with consequences, detection methods, mitigations, related CVEs and MITRE ATT&CK context.
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CWE-282: Improper Ownership Management
Improper Ownership Management represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.
Executive Impact
- Access Control: Gain Privileges or Assume Identity
Developer Pattern
CWE-282 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.
Automation confidence
high confidence from CWE-282, 4.20.
Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.
Official CWE Definition
CWE-282: Improper Ownership Management
The product assigns the wrong ownership, or does not properly verify the ownership, of an object or resource.
Developer And Remediation Guidance
How teams prevent and detect this weakness
Causes
- This function is part of a privileged program that takes input from users with potentially lower privileges. This code does not confirm that the process to be killed is owned by the requesting user, thus allowing an attacker to kill arbitrary processes.,This function remedies the problem by checking the owner of the process before killing it:
Remediation
- Architecture and Design,Operation: Very carefully manage the setting, management, and handling of privileges. Explicitly manage trust zones in the software.
Detection
- Automated Static Analysis: Automated static analysis, commonly referred to as Static Application Security Testing (SAST), can find some instances of this weakness by analyzing source code (or binary/compiled code) without having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect "sources" (origins of input) with "sinks" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)
Mappings
Related CVEs, CWEs, and ATT&CK context
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ATT&CK Relevance
ATT&CK relevance is shown only when reviewed or responsibly inferred.