CWE-708: Incorrect Ownership Assignment | Glexia
CWE-708 (Incorrect Ownership Assignment) weakness overview with consequences, detection methods, mitigations, related CVEs and MITRE ATT&CK context.
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CWE-708: Incorrect Ownership Assignment
Incorrect Ownership Assignment 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: An attacker could read and modify data for which they do not have permissions to access directly.
Developer Pattern
CWE-708 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-708, 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-708: Incorrect Ownership Assignment
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.
Developer And Remediation Guidance
How teams prevent and detect this weakness
Causes
- Missing validation
- Unsafe defaults
- Insufficient authorization or memory-safety invariant
Remediation
- Policy: Periodically review the privileges and their owners.
Detection
- Automated Analysis: Use automated tools to check for privilege settings.
Mappings
Related CVEs, CWEs, and ATT&CK context
Related CWEs
ATT&CK Relevance
ATT&CK relevance is shown only when reviewed or responsibly inferred.