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 →
CVEs classified under CWE-281page 8 of 8
- CVE-2018-3762MEDIUMCVSS 4.3EG 4.32018-07-05
Nextcloud Server before 12.0.8 and 13.0.3 suffers from improper checks of dropped permissions for incoming shares allowing a user to still request previews for files it should not have access to.
- CVE-2017-5033MEDIUMCVSS 4.3EG 4.32017-04-24
Blink in Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.98 for Mac, Windows, and Linux and 57.0.2987.108 for Android failed to correctly propagate CSP restrictions to local scheme pages, which allowed a remote attacker to bypass content security policy …
- CVE-2026-35351MEDIUMCVSS 4.2EG 4.22026-04-22
The mv utility in uutils coreutils fails to preserve file ownership during moves across different filesystem boundaries. The utility falls back to a copy-and-delete routine that creates the destination file using the caller's UID/GID rathe…
- CVE-2024-22404MEDIUMCVSS 4.1EG 4.12024-01-18
Nextcloud files Zip app is a tool to create zip archives from one or multiple files from within Nextcloud. In affected versions users can download "view-only" files by zipping the complete folder. It is recommended that the Files ZIP app i…
- CVE-2024-22401MEDIUMCVSS 4.1EG 4.12024-01-18
Nextcloud guests app is a utility to create guest users which can only see files shared with them. In affected versions users could change the allowed list of apps, allowing them to use apps that were not intended to be used. It is recomme…
- CVE-2023-35938MEDIUMCVSS 4.1EG 4.12023-06-29
Tuleap is a Free & Open Source Suite to improve management of software developments and collaboration. When switching from a project visibility that allows restricted users to `Private without restricted`, restricted users that are projec…
- CVE-2024-36062MEDIUMCVSS 4.0EG 4.02024-11-07
The com.callassistant.android (aka AI Call Assistant & Screener) application 1.174 for Android enables any installed application (with no permissions) to place phone calls without user interaction by sending a crafted intent via the com.ca…
- CVE-2024-21816MEDIUMCVSS 4.0EG 4.02024-03-04
in OpenHarmony v4.0.0 and prior versions allow a local attacker cause information leak through improper preservation of permissions.
- CVE-2023-21464MEDIUMCVSS 4.0EG 4.02023-03-16
Improper access control in Samsung Calendar prior to versions 12.4.02.9000 in Android 13 and 12.3.08.2000 in Android 12 allows local attacker to configure improper status.
- CVE-2024-32020LOWCVSS 3.9EG 3.92024-05-14
Git is a revision control system. Prior to versions 2.45.1, 2.44.1, 2.43.4, 2.42.2, 2.41.1, 2.40.2, and 2.39.4, local clones may end up hardlinking files into the target repository's object database when source and target repository reside…
- CVE-2025-14779LOWCVSS 3.8EG 3.82026-08-06
The Secret Type Management REST API does not correctly isolate access controls when deleting a secret type. The on-delete cascade logic, when triggered, fails to enforce organizational boundaries, leading to the removal of secrets associat…
- CVE-2025-0914LOWCVSS 3.8EG 3.82025-02-27
An improper access control issue in the VQL shell feature in Velociraptor Versions < 0.73.4 allowed authenticated users to execute the execve() plugin in deployments where this was explicitly forbidden by configuring the prevent_execve fla…
- CVE-2024-38361LOWCVSS 3.7EG 3.72024-06-20
Spicedb is an Open Source, Google Zanzibar-inspired permissions database to enable fine-grained authorization for customer applications. Use of an exclusion under an arrow that has multiple resources may resolve to `NO_PERMISSION` when per…
- CVE-2023-25817LOWCVSS 3.5EG 3.52023-03-27
Nextcloud server is an open source, personal cloud implementation. In versions from 24.0.0 and before 24.0.9 a user could escalate their permissions to delete files they were not supposed to deletable but only viewed or downloaded. This is…
- CVE-2025-9615LOWCVSS 3.3EG 3.32026-01-26
A flaw was found in NetworkManager. The NetworkManager package allows access to files that may belong to other users. NetworkManager allows non-root users to configure the system's network. The daemon runs with root privileges and can acce…
- CVE-2025-27563LOWCVSS 3.3EG 3.32025-06-08
in OpenHarmony v5.0.3 and prior versions allow a local attacker cause information leak through get permission.
- CVE-2025-26693LOWCVSS 3.3EG 3.32025-06-08
in OpenHarmony v5.0.3 and prior versions allow a local attacker cause information leak through get permission.
- CVE-2024-54516LOWCVSS 3.3EG 3.32025-01-27
A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.2, macOS Sonoma 14.7.2. An app may be able to approve a launch daemon without user consent.
- CVE-2024-22177LOWCVSS 3.3EG 3.32024-04-02
in OpenHarmony v3.2.4 and prior versions allow a local attacker cause apps crash through get permission.
- CVE-2023-1386LOWCVSS 3.3EG 3.32023-07-24
A flaw was found in the 9p passthrough filesystem (9pfs) implementation in QEMU. When a local user in the guest writes an executable file with SUID or SGID, none of these privileged bits are correctly dropped. As a result, in rare circumst…
- CVE-2022-31237LOWCVSS 3.3EG 3.32022-08-22
Dell PowerScale OneFS, versions 9.2.0 up to and including 9.2.1.12 and 9.3.0.5 contain an improper preservation of permissions vulnerability in SyncIQ. A low privileged local attacker may potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to …
- CVE-2021-20263LOWCVSS 3.3EG 3.32021-03-09
A flaw was found in the virtio-fs shared file system daemon (virtiofsd) of QEMU. The new 'xattrmap' option may cause the 'security.capability' xattr in the guest to not drop on file write, potentially leading to a modified, privileged exec…
- CVE-2019-19620LOWCVSS 3.3EG 3.32019-12-06
In SecureWorks Red Cloak Windows Agent before 2.0.7.9, a local user can bypass the generation of telemetry alerts by removing NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM permissions from a file. This is limited in scope to the collection of process-execution tele…
- CVE-2013-6335LOWCVSS v2 3.3EG 3.32014-08-26
The Backup-Archive client in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) for Space Management 5.x and 6.x before 6.2.5.3, 6.3.x before 6.3.2, 6.4.x before 6.4.2, and 7.1.x before 7.1.0.3 on Linux and AIX, and 5.x and 6.x before 6.1.5.6 on Solaris and…
- CVE-2020-13282LOWCVSS 3.1EG 3.12020-08-13
For GitLab before 13.0.12, 13.1.6, 13.2.3 after a group transfer occurs, members from a parent group keep their access level on the subgroup leading to improper access.
- CVE-2021-41089LOWCVSS 2.8EG 2.82021-10-04
Moby is an open-source project created by Docker to enable software containerization. A bug was found in Moby (Docker Engine) where attempting to copy files using `docker cp` into a specially-crafted container can result in Unix file permi…
- CVE-2024-47270LOWCVSS 2.7EG 2.72026-05-27
Improper preservation of permissions vulnerability in Archiving Push functionality in Synology Surveillance Station before 9.2.2-11575 and 9.2.2-9575 allows remote authenticated users with administrator privileges to limited file write via…
- CVE-2024-32882LOWCVSS 2.7EG 2.72024-05-02
Wagtail is an open source content management system built on Django. In affected versions if a model has been made available for editing through the `wagtail.contrib.settings` module or `ModelViewSet`, and the `permission` argument on `Fie…
- CVE-2022-41963LOWCVSS 2.7EG 2.72022-12-16
BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system. Versions prior to 2.4.3 contain a whiteboard grace period that exists to handle delayed messages, but this grace period could be used by attackers to take actions in the few seconds …
- CVE-2020-13308LOWCVSS 2.7EG 2.72020-09-15
A vulnerability was discovered in GitLab versions before 13.1.10, 13.2.8 and 13.3.4. A user without 2 factor authentication enabled could be prohibited from accessing GitLab by being invited into a project that had 2 factor authentication …
- CVE-2019-18458LOWCVSS 2.7EG 2.72019-11-26
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition through 12.4. It has Insecure Permissions (issue 2 of 4).
- CVE-2021-39897LOWCVSS 2.6EG 2.62021-11-05
Improper access control in GitLab CE/EE version 10.5 and above allowed subgroup members with inherited access to a project from a parent group to still have access even after the subgroup is transferred
- CVE-2025-32697UnratedEG not assessed2025-04-10
Improper Preservation of Permissions vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki. This vulnerability is associated with program files includes/editpage/IntroMessageBuilder.Php, includes/Permissions/PermissionManager.Php, includes/Permi…
- CVE-2025-32696UnratedEG not assessed2025-04-10
Improper Preservation of Permissions vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki. This vulnerability is associated with program files includes/actions/RevertAction.Php, includes/api/ApiFileRevert.Php. This issue affects MediaWiki: bef…
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