CWE-274

Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges

Medium

Description

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles when it has insufficient privileges to perform an operation, leading to resultant weaknesses.

Potential Impact

Other: Other

Detection Methods

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 havin...

Related Weaknesses

References

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