Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-277

Allowed

Insecure Inherited Permissions

Abstraction: Variant · Status: Draft

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A product defines a set of insecure permissions that are inherited by objects that are created by the program.

51 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.

CVE-2018-25111 (GCVE-0-2018-25111)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-31 00:00 – Updated: 2025-06-02 15:50
VLAI
Summary
django-helpdesk before 1.0.0 allows Sensitive Data Exposure because of os.umask(0) in models.py.
Severity
5.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-06-02 15:19 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-277 - Insecure Inherited Permissions
Assigner
mitre CNA
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
django-helpdesk Project django-helpdesk Affected: 0 , < 1.0.0 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:django-helpdesk_project:django-helpdesk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Mitigation MIT-1
Architecture and Design Operation

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

Mitigation MIT-46
Architecture and Design

Strategy: Separation of Privilege

  • Compartmentalize the system to have "safe" areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

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