CWE-279 25 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-279: Incorrect Execution-Assigned Permissions

Overview

CWE-279 (Incorrect Execution-Assigned Permissions) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.

Security impact
Security impact: Depends on product and context; use CVE records, severity scores, and MITRE guidance to prioritize.

Description

While it is executing, the product sets the permissions of an object in a way that violates the intended permissions that have been specified by the user.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language Not Language-Specific Undetermined

Related CVEs in this database

These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.

CVE Published Summary
CVE-2026-4948 2026-03-27 A flaw was found in firewalld. A local unprivileged user can exploit this vulnerability by mis-authorizing two runtime D-Bus (Desktop Bus) setters, setZoneSettings2 and setPolicySettings. This mis-aut…
CVE-2026-20062 2026-03-04 A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software in multiple context mode could allow an authenticated, local attacker with administrative privileges in o…
CVE-2025-12801 2026-03-04 A vulnerability was recently discovered in the rpc.mountd daemon in the nfs-utils package for Linux, that allows a NFSv3 client to escalate the privileges assigned to it in the /etc/exports file at mo…
CVE-2025-14025 2026-01-08 A flaw was found in Ansible Automation Platform (AAP). Read-only scoped OAuth2 API Tokens in AAP, are enforced at the Gateway level for Gateway-specific operations. However, this vulnerability allows …
CVE-2025-36228 2025-12-26 IBM Aspera Faspex 5 5.0.0 through 5.0.14.1 may allow inconsistent permissions between the user interface and backend API allowed users to access features that appeared disabled, potentially leading to…
CVE-2025-13663 2025-12-11 Under certain circumstances, the Quartus Prime Pro Installer for Windows does not check the permissions of the Quartus target installation directory if the target installation directory already exists…
CVE-2024-25621 2025-11-06 containerd is an open-source container runtime. Versions 0.1.0 through 1.7.28, 2.0.0-beta.0 through 2.0.6, 2.1.0-beta.0 through 2.1.4 and 2.2.0-beta.0 through 2.2.0-rc.1 have an overly broad default p…
CVE-2025-30001 2025-10-10 Incorrect Execution-Assigned Permissions vulnerability in Apache StreamPark. This issue affects Apache StreamPark: from 2.1.4 before 2.1.6. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.1.6, which f…
CVE-2025-58437 2025-09-06 Coder allows organizations to provision remote development environments via Terraform. In versions 2.22.0 through 2.24.3, 2.25.0 and 2.25.1, Coder can be compromised through insecure session handling…
CVE-2025-26422 2025-09-04 In dump of WindowManagerService.java, there is a possible way of running dumpsys without the required permission due to a missing permission check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege wit…
CVE-2025-23263 2025-07-17 NVIDIA DOCA-Host and Mellanox OFED contain a vulnerability in the VGT+ feature, where an attacker on a VM might cause escalation of privileges and denial of service on the VLAN.
CVE-2025-23233 2025-05-13 Incorrect execution-assigned permissions for some Edge Orchestrator software for Intel(R) Tiber™ Edge Platform may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via adjacen…
CVE-2025-22843 2025-05-13 Incorrect execution-assigned permissions for some Edge Orchestrator software for Intel(R) Tiber™ Edge Platform may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local a…
CVE-2025-20612 2025-05-13 Incorrect execution-assigned permissions for some Edge Orchestrator software for Intel(R) Tiber™ Edge Platform may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via adjacen…
CVE-2024-39286 2025-02-12 Incorrect execution-assigned permissions in the Linux kernel mode driver for the Intel(R) 800 Series Ethernet Driver before version 1.15.4 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable informa…
CVE-2024-11220 2024-12-06 A local low-level user on the server machine with credentials to the running OAS services can create and execute a report with an rdlx file on the server system itself. Any code within the rdlx file o…
CVE-2024-37025 2024-11-13 Incorrect execution-assigned permissions in some Intel(R) Advanced Link Analyzer Standard Edition software installer before version 23.1.1 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalat…
CVE-2024-37734 2024-06-26 An issue in OpenEMR 7.0.2 allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges viaa crafted POST request using the noteid parameter.
CVE-2023-50914 2024-04-30 A Privilege Escalation issue in the inter-process communication procedure from GOG Galaxy (Beta) 2.0.67.2 through v2.0.71.2 allows authentictaed users to change the DACL of arbitrary system directorie…
CVE-2023-4665 2023-09-15 Incorrect Execution-Assigned Permissions vulnerability in Saphira Saphira Connect allows Privilege Escalation. This issue affects Saphira Connect: before 9.

Previous names

  • Insecure Execution-assigned Permissions (2009-05-27)

Content submission

Name
PLOVER
Date
2006-07-19
Version
Draft 3

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2008-07-01 Eric Dalci 1.0 updated Time_of_Introduction
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2008-11-24 CWE Content Team 1.1 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2009-05-27 CWE Content Team 1.4 updated Description, Name
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2011-09-13 CWE Content Team 2.1 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2012-10-30 CWE Content Team 2.3 updated Potential_Mitigations
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships
2017-05-03 CWE Content Team 2.11 updated Related_Attack_Patterns
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Applicable_Platforms, Modes_of_Introduction, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2019-01-03 CWE Content Team 3.2 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2020-12-10 CWE Content Team 4.3 updated Potential_Mitigations
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Description
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Detection_Factors, Weakness_Ordinalities
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