CWE-282

Improper Ownership Management

High

Description

The product assigns the wrong ownership, or does not properly verify the ownership, of an object or resource.

Potential Impact

Access Control: Gain Privileges or Assume Identity

How to Fix

Architecture and Design

Very carefully manage the setting, management, and handling of privileges. Explicitly manage trust zones in the software.

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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