COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATIONIncomplete

CWE-708

Incorrect Ownership Assignment

The product assigns an owner to a resource, but the owner is outside of the intended control sphere.

Abstraction

Base

Structure

Simple

Likelihood of Exploit

Medium

Understand the problem

What is the problem?

The product assigns an owner to a resource, but the owner is outside of the intended control sphere.

Extended description

This may allow the resource to be manipulated by actors outside of the intended control sphere.

Root cause

How and when does the problem arise?

Lifecycle phase

Architecture and Design

Lifecycle phase

Implementation

REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic.

Lifecycle phase

Operation

Risk

What does successful exploitation lead to?

Read Application DataModify Application Data

Affected security scopes: Confidentiality, Integrity

An attacker could read and modify data for which they do not have permissions to access directly.

Defence

How is it prevented and fixed?

Policy

Policy aşaması savunması

Detail
Periodically review the privileges and their owners.

Verification

How is it detected?

Automated Analysis

Use automated tools to check for privilege settings.