CWE-281— Improper Preservation of Permissions
The product does not preserve permissions or incorrectly preserves permissions when copying, restoring, or sharing objects, which can cause them to have less restrictive permissions than intended.— MITRE CWE catalog
384 active CVEs classified under this weakness category. Sourced from NVD, GHSA, and vendor advisories. Full definition on MITRE →
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- CVE-2017-8465HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82017-06-15
Microsoft Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allow an attacker to run processes in an elevated context when the Windows kernel improperly handles objects i…
- CVE-2001-0195HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82001-03-26
sash before 3.4-4 in Debian GNU/Linux does not properly clone /etc/shadow, which makes it world-readable and could allow local users to gain privileges via password cracking.
- CVE-2022-26024HIGHCVSS 6.7EG 7.82022-11-11
Improper access control in the Intel(R) NUC HDMI Firmware Update Tool for NUC7i3DN, NUC7i5DN and NUC7i7DN before version 1.78.2.0.7 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
- CVE-2024-53934HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72025-01-06
The com.windymob.callscreen.ringtone.callcolor.colorphone (aka Color Phone Call Screen Themes) application through 1.1.2 for Android enables any application (with no permissions) to place phone calls without user interaction by sending a c…
- CVE-2021-21379HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72021-03-12
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. In affected versions of XWiki Platform, the `{{wikimacrocontent}}` executes the content with the rights of the wiki macro author inste…
- CVE-2020-26246HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72020-12-03
Pimcore is an open source digital experience platform. In Pimcore before version 6.8.5 it is possible to modify & create website settings without having the appropriate permissions.
- CVE-2024-40805HIGHCVSS 7.1EG 7.72024-07-29
A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6, macOS Sonoma 14.6, tvOS 17.6, watchOS 10.6. An app may be able to bypass Privacy preferences.
- CVE-2024-40824HIGHCVSS 5.5EG 7.72024-07-29
This issue was addressed through improved state management. This issue is fixed in iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6, macOS Sonoma 14.6, tvOS 17.6, watchOS 10.6. An app may be able to bypass Privacy preferences.
- CVE-2023-45859HIGHCVSS 7.6EG 7.62024-02-28
In Hazelcast through 4.1.10, 4.2 through 4.2.8, 5.0 through 5.0.5, 5.1 through 5.1.7, 5.2 through 5.2.4, and 5.3 through 5.3.2, some client operations don't check permissions properly, allowing authenticated users to access data stored in …
- CVE-2022-36062HIGHCVSS 3.8EG 7.62022-09-22
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. In versions prior to 8.5.13, 9.0.9, and 9.1.6, Grafana is subject to Improper Preservation of Permissions resulting in privilege escalation on some folders where Admin is…
- CVE-2026-40767HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52026-06-15
Unauthenticated Broken Access Control in wpForo Forum < 3.0.2 versions.
- CVE-2024-12125HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52025-11-06
A flaw was found in the 3scale Developer Portal. When creating or updating an account in the Developer Portal UI it is possible to modify fields explicitly configured as read-only or hidden, allowing an attacker to modify restricted inform…
- CVE-2025-43701HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52025-06-10
Improper Preservation of Permissions vulnerability in Salesforce OmniStudio (FlexCards) allows exposure of Custom Settings data. This impacts OmniStudio: before version 254.
- CVE-2025-43700HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52025-06-10
Improper Preservation of Permissions vulnerability in Salesforce OmniStudio (FlexCards) allows exposure of encrypted data. This impacts OmniStudio: before Spring 2025.
- CVE-2025-43697HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52025-06-10
Improper Preservation of Permissions vulnerability in Salesforce OmniStudio (DataMapper) allows exposure of encrypted data. This impacts OmniStudio: before Spring 2025
- CVE-2024-57698HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52025-04-29
An issue in modernwms v.1.0 allows an attacker view the MD5 hash of the administrator password and other attributes without authentication, even after initial configuration and password change. This happens due to excessive exposure of inf…
- CVE-2021-3978HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52025-01-29
When copying files with rsync, octorpki uses the "-a" flag 0, which forces rsync to copy binaries with the suid bit set as root. Since the provided service definition defaults to root ( https://github.com/cloudflare/cfrpki/blob/master/pack…
- CVE-2024-54557HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52025-01-27
A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.2, macOS Sonoma 14.7.2, macOS Ventura 13.7.2. An attacker may gain access to protected parts of the file system.
- CVE-2024-56317HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52024-12-18
In Matter (aka connectedhomeip or Project CHIP) through 1.4.0.0, the WriteAcl function deletes all existing ACL entries first, and then attempts to recreate them based on user input. If input validation fails during decoding, the process s…
- CVE-2024-37575HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52024-12-04
The Mister org.mistergroup.shouldianswer application 1.4.264 for Android enables any installed application (with no permissions) to place phone calls without user interaction by sending a crafted intent via the org.mistergroup.shouldianswe…
- CVE-2024-10458HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52024-10-29
A permission leak could have occurred from a trusted site to an untrusted site via `embed` or `object` elements. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 132, Firefox ESR < 128.4, Firefox ESR < 115.17, Thunderbird < 128.4, and Thunderbird < 13…
- CVE-2024-44149HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52024-09-17
A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15. An app may be able to access protected user data.
- CVE-2024-40770HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52024-09-17
A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15. A non-privileged user may be able to modify restricted network settings.
- CVE-2024-27795HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52024-09-17
A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15. A camera extension may be able to access the internet.
- CVE-2024-33892HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52024-08-02
Insecure Permissions vulnerability in Cosy+ devices running a firmware 21.x below 21.2s10 or a firmware 22.x below 22.1s3 are susceptible to leaking information through cookies. This is fixed in version 21.2s10 and 22.1s3
- CVE-2023-52373HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52024-02-18
Vulnerability of permission verification in the content sharing pop-up module.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause unauthorized file sharing.
- CVE-2022-48301HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52023-02-09
The bundle management module lacks permission verification in some APIs. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may restore the pre-installed apps that have been uninstalled.
- CVE-2022-48295HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52023-02-09
The IHwAntiMalPlugin interface lacks permission verification. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to filling problems (batch installation of applications).
- CVE-2020-18329HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52023-01-26
An issue was discovered in Rehau devices that use a pCOWeb card BIOS v6.27, BOOT v5.00, web version v2.2, allows attackers to gain full unauthenticated access to the configuration and service interface.
- CVE-2021-3523HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52022-04-27
A flaw was found in 3Scale APICast in versions prior to 2.11.0, where it incorrectly identified connections for reuse. This flaw allows an attacker to bypass security restrictions for an API request when hosting multiple APIs on the same I…
- CVE-2021-37044HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52021-12-08
There is a Permission control vulnerability in Huawei Smartphone.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service availability.
- CVE-2021-37006HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52021-11-23
There is a Improper Preservation of Permissions vulnerability in Huawei Smartphone.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will cause the confidentiality of users is affected.
- CVE-2021-30482HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52021-05-11
In JetBrains UpSource before 2020.1.1883, application passwords were not revoked correctly
- CVE-2020-8190HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-07-10
Incorrect file permissions in Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway before versions 13.0-58.30, 12.1-57.18, 12.0-63.21, 11.1-64.14 and 10.5-70.18 allows privilege escalation.
- CVE-2019-20846HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-06-19
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.18.0. It has weak permissions for server-local file storage.
- CVE-2019-20843HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-06-19
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.18.0, 5.17.2, 5.16.4, 5.15.4, and 5.9.7. There are weak permissions for configuration files.
- CVE-2020-13763HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52020-06-02
In Joomla! before 3.9.19, the default settings of the global textfilter configuration do not block HTML inputs for Guest users.
- CVE-2005-1920HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52005-07-26
The (1) Kate and (2) Kwrite applications in KDE KDE 3.2.x through 3.4.0 do not properly set the same permissions on the backup file as were set on the original file, which could allow local users and possibly remote attackers to obtain sen…
- CVE-2002-2323HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52002-12-31
Sun PC NetLink 1.0 through 1.2 does not properly set the access control list (ACL) for files and directories that use symbolic links and have been restored from backup, which could allow local or remote attackers to bypass intended access …
- CVE-2001-1515HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52001-12-31
Macintosh clients, when using NT file system volumes on Windows 2000 SP1, create subdirectories and automatically modify the inherited NTFS permissions, which may cause the directories to have less restrictive permissions than intended.
- CVE-2024-44211HIGHCVSS 5.5EG 7.52024-12-20
This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.1. An app may be able to access user-sensitive data.
- CVE-2021-45446HIGHCVSS 5.0EG 7.52022-11-02
A vulnerability in Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server versions before 9.2.0.2 and 8.3.0.25 does not cascade the hidden property to the children of the Home folder. This directory listing provides an attacker with the co…
- CVE-2009-5054HIGHCVSS v2 7.5EG 7.52011-02-03
Smarty before 3.0.0 beta 4 does not consider the umask value when setting the permissions of files, which might allow attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via standard filesystem operations.
- CVE-2019-13668HIGHCVSS 7.4EG 7.42019-11-25
Insufficient policy enforcement in developer tools in Google Chrome prior to 77.0.3865.75 allowed a remote attacker to leak cross-origin data via a crafted HTML page.
- CVE-2017-8494HIGHCVSS 7.3EG 7.32017-06-15
Microsoft Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allow a locally-authenticated attacker to run a specially crafted application on a targeted system when Windows Secure Kernel Mode fails to properly handle objects in…
- CVE-2024-23464HIGHCVSS 7.2EG 7.22024-08-06
In certain cases, Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) can be disabled by PowerShell commands with admin rights. This affects Zscaler Client Connector on Windows <4.2.1
- CVE-2026-88016HIGHCVSS 7.1EG 7.12026-09-10
rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to 1.75.1, when backend/local runs with --links, a source .rclonelink object can plant a symlink in the destination and lat…
- CVE-2026-35341HIGHCVSS 7.1EG 7.12026-04-22
A vulnerability in uutils coreutils mkfifo allows for the unauthorized modification of permissions on existing files. When mkfifo fails to create a FIFO because a file already exists at the target path, it fails to terminate the operation …
- CVE-2023-25646HIGHCVSS 7.1EG 7.12024-06-20
There is an unauthorized access vulnerability in ZTE H388X. If H388X is caused by brute-force serial port cracking,attackers with common user permissions can use this vulnerability to obtain elevated permissions on the affected device by p…
- CVE-2023-31926HIGHCVSS 7.1EG 7.12023-08-02
System files could be overwritten using the less command in Brocade Fabric OS before Brocade Fabric OS v9.1.1c and v9.2.0.
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