CWE-708 20 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-708: Incorrect Ownership Assignment

Overview

CWE-708 (Incorrect Ownership Assignment) 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

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

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-2026-40196 2026-04-17 HomeBox is a home inventory and organization system. Versions prior to 0.25.0 contain a vulnerability where the defaultGroup ID remained permanently assigned to a user after being invited to a group, …
CVE-2026-32691 2026-03-18 A race condition in the secrets management subsystem of Juju versions 3.0.0 through 3.6.18 allows an authenticated unit agent to claim ownership of a newly initialized secret. Between generating a Juj…
CVE-2025-5467 2025-12-10 It was discovered that process_crash() in data/apport in Canonical's Apport crash reporting tool may create crash files with incorrect group ownership, possibly exposing crash information beyond expec…
CVE-2025-14262 2025-12-08 A wrong permission check in KNIME Business Hub before version 1.17.0 allowed an authenticated user to save jobs of other users as if there were saved by the job owner. The attacker must have permissio…
CVE-2025-5069 2025-09-26 An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.10 before 18.2.7, 18.3 before 18.3.3, and 18.4 before 18.4.1 that could have allowed an authenticated user to gain unauthori…
CVE-2024-52561 2025-06-03 A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Snapshot functionality of Parallels Desktop for Mac version 20.1.1 (build 55740). When a snapshot of a virtual machine is deleted, a root service ver…
CVE-2024-45426 2025-02-25 Incorrect ownership assignment in some Zoom Workplace Apps may allow a privileged user to conduct an information disclosure via network access.
CVE-2024-45417 2025-02-25 Uncontrolled resource consumption in the installer for some Zoom apps for macOS before version 6.1.5 may allow a privileged user to conduct a disclosure of information via local access.
CVE-2024-9633 2024-11-14 An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 16.3 before 17.4.2, all versions starting from 17.5 before 17.5.4, all versions starting from 17.6 before 17.6.2. This…
CVE-2023-29122 2024-11-05 Under certain conditions, access to service libraries is granted to account they should not have access to.
CVE-2024-41773 2024-08-20 IBM Global Configuration Management 7.0.2 and 7.0.3 could allow an authenticated user to archive a global baseline due to improper access controls.
CVE-2023-41881 2023-10-11 vantage6 is privacy preserving federated learning infrastructure. When a collaboration is deleted, the linked resources (such as tasks from that collaboration) should be deleted. This is partly to man…
CVE-2023-4008 2023-08-03 An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 15.9 before 16.0.8, all versions starting from 16.1 before 16.1.3, all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.2.2. It w…
CVE-2023-20044 2023-01-20 A vulnerability in Cisco CX Cloud Agent of could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate their privileges. This vulnerability is due to insecure file permissions. An attacker could exploi…
CVE-2023-20043 2023-01-20 A vulnerability in Cisco CX Cloud Agent of could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate their privileges. This vulnerability is due to insecure file permissions. An attacker could exploi…
CVE-2022-33737 2022-07-06 The OpenVPN Access Server installer creates a log file readable for everyone, which from version 2.10.0 and before 2.11.0 may contain a random generated admin password
CVE-2022-22189 2022-04-14 An Incorrect Ownership Assignment vulnerability in Juniper Networks Contrail Service Orchestration (CSO) allows a locally authenticated user to have their permissions elevated without authentication t…
CVE-2021-26248 2021-11-19 Philips MRI 1.5T and MRI 3T Version 5.3 through 5.8.1 does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
CVE-2021-32726 2021-07-12 Nextcloud Server is a Nextcloud package that handles data storage. In versions prior to 19.0.13, 20.011, and 21.0.3, webauthn tokens were not deleted after a user has been deleted. If a victim reused …
CVE-2021-32689 2021-07-12 Nextcloud Talk is a fully on-premises audio/video and chat communication service. In versions prior to 11.2.2, if a user was able to reuse an earlier used username, they could get access to any chat m…

Content submission

Name
CWE Content Team
Organization
MITRE
Date
2008-09-09
Version
1.0
Comment
Note: this date reflects when the entry was first published. Draft versions of this entry were provided to members of the CWE community and modified between Draft 9 and 1.0.

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2008-07-01 Eric Dalci 1.0 updated Potential_Mitigations, Time_of_Introduction
2009-03-10 CWE Content Team 1.3 updated Relationships
2009-05-27 CWE Content Team 1.4 updated Description
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences, Maintenance_Notes, Other_Notes
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Common_Consequences, Relationships
2012-10-30 CWE Content Team 2.3 updated Observed_Examples, Potential_Mitigations
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Applicable_Platforms, Modes_of_Introduction, Relationships
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Relationships
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, Observed_Examples, Potential_Mitigations, Weakness_Ordinalities
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