CWE-276— Incorrect Default Permissions
During installation, installed file permissions are set to allow anyone to modify those files.— MITRE CWE catalog
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- CVE-2019-14602HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82019-11-14
Improper permissions in the installer for the Nuvoton* CIR Driver versions 1.02.1002 and before may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
- CVE-2019-18895HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82019-11-14
Scanguard through 2019-11-12 on Windows has Insecure Permissions for the installation directory, leading to privilege escalation via a Trojan horse executable file.
- CVE-2019-14737HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82019-10-14
Ubisoft Uplay 92.0.0.6280 has Insecure Permissions.
- CVE-2019-17044HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82019-10-14
An issue was discovered in BMC Patrol Agent 9.0.10i. Weak execution permissions on the PatrolAgent SUID binary could allow an attacker with "patrol" privileges to elevate his/her privileges to the ones of the "root" user by specially craft…
- CVE-2019-17043HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82019-10-14
An issue was discovered in BMC Patrol Agent 9.0.10i. Weak execution permissions on the best1collect.exe SUID binary could allow an attacker to elevate his/her privileges to the ones of the "patrol" user by specially crafting a shared libra…
- CVE-2019-2173HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82019-10-11
In startActivityMayWait of ActivityStarter.java, there is a possible incorrect Activity launch due to an incorrect permission check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User inte…
- CVE-2019-2114HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82019-10-11
In the default privileges of NFC, there is a possible local bypass of user interaction requirements on package installation due to a default permission. This could lead to local escalation of privilege by installing an application with no …
- CVE-2019-17365HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82019-10-09
Nix through 2.3 allows local users to gain access to an arbitrary user's account because the parent directory of the user-profile directories is world writable.
- CVE-2019-16913HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82019-10-07
PC Protect Antivirus v4.14.31 installs by default to %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\PCProtect with very weak folder permissions, granting any user full permission "Everyone: (F)" to the contents of the directory and its subfolders. In addition, the p…
- CVE-2018-19592HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82019-09-27
The "CLink4Service" service is installed with Corsair Link 4.9.7.35 with insecure permissions by default. This allows unprivileged users to take control of the service and execute commands in the context of NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM, leading to …
- CVE-2019-12795HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82019-06-11
daemon/gvfsdaemon.c in gvfsd from GNOME gvfs before 1.38.3, 1.40.x before 1.40.2, and 1.41.x before 1.41.3 opened a private D-Bus server socket without configuring an authorization rule. A local attacker could connect to this server socket…
- CVE-2018-11906HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82018-11-27
In all android releases(Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, there is a security concern with default privileged access to ADB and debug-fs.
- CVE-2018-12441HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82018-10-11
The CorsairService Service in Corsair Utility Engine is installed with insecure default permissions, which allows unprivileged local users to execute arbitrary commands via modification of the CorsairService BINARY_PATH_NAME, leading to co…
- CVE-2018-12175HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82018-09-12
Default install directory permissions in Intel Distribution for Python (IDP) version 2018 may allow an unprivileged user to escalate privileges via local access.
- CVE-2018-11453HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82018-08-07
A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC STEP 7 (TIA Portal) and WinCC (TIA Portal) V10, V11, V12 (All versions), SIMATIC STEP 7 (TIA Portal) and WinCC (TIA Portal) V13 (All versions < V13 SP2 Update 2), SIMATIC STEP 7 (TIA Portal) a…
- CVE-2017-3210HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82018-07-24
Applications developed using the Portrait Display SDK, versions 2.30 through 2.34, default to insecure configurations which allow arbitrary code execution. A number of applications developed using the Portrait Displays SDK do not use secur…
- CVE-2018-7535HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82018-07-13
An issue was discovered in TotalAV v4.1.7. An unprivileged user could modify or overwrite all of the product's files because of weak permissions (Everyone:F) under %PROGRAMFILES%, which allows local users to gain privileges or obtain maxim…
- CVE-2017-7794HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82018-06-11
On Linux systems, if the content process is compromised, the sandbox broker will allow files to be truncated even though the sandbox explicitly only has read access to the local file system and no write permissions. Note: This attack only …
- CVE-2018-7533HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82018-03-14
An Incorrect Default Permissions issue was discovered in OSIsoft PI Data Archive versions 2017 and prior. Insecure default configuration may allow escalation of privileges that gives the actor full control over the system.
- CVE-2017-15131HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82018-01-09
It was found that system umask policy is not being honored when creating XDG user directories, since Xsession sources xdg-user-dirs.sh before setting umask policy. This only affects xdg-user-dirs before 0.15.5 as shipped with Red Hat Enter…
- CVE-2016-6914HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82017-12-27
Ubiquiti UniFi Video before 3.8.0 for Windows uses weak permissions for the installation directory, which allows local users to gain SYSTEM privileges via a Trojan horse taskkill.exe file.
- CVE-2017-14427HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82017-09-13
D-Link DIR-850L REV. A (with firmware through FW114WWb07_h2ab_beta1) and REV. B (with firmware through FW208WWb02) devices have 0666 /var/run/storage_account_root permissions.
- CVE-2017-14425HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82017-09-13
D-Link DIR-850L REV. A (with firmware through FW114WWb07_h2ab_beta1) and REV. B (with firmware through FW208WWb02) devices have 0666 /var/etc/hnapasswd permissions.
- CVE-2017-14424HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82017-09-13
D-Link DIR-850L REV. A (with firmware through FW114WWb07_h2ab_beta1) and REV. B (with firmware through FW208WWb02) devices have 0666 /var/passwd permissions.
- CVE-2017-11156HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82017-08-14
Synology Download Station 3.8.x before 3.8.5-3475 and 3.x before 3.5-2984 uses weak permissions (0777) for ui/dlm/btsearch directory, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code by uploading an executable via unspecif…
- CVE-2017-7968HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82017-05-19
An Incorrect Default Permissions issue was discovered in Schneider Electric Wonderware InduSoft Web Studio v8.0 Patch 3 and prior versions. Upon installation, Wonderware InduSoft Web Studio creates a new directory and two files, which are …
- CVE-2016-5425HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82016-10-13
The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, Fedora, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and possibly other Linux distributions uses weak permissions for /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain root privileges by le…
- CVE-2016-3943HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82016-04-18
Panda Endpoint Administration Agent before 7.50.00, as used in Panda Security for Business products for Windows, uses a weak ACL for the Panda Security/WaAgent directory and sub-directories, which allows local users to gain SYSTEM privileg…
- CVE-2015-7378HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82016-04-18
Panda Security URL Filtering before 4.3.1.9 uses a weak ACL for the "Panda Security URL Filtering" directory and installed files, which allows local users to gain SYSTEM privileges by modifying Panda_URL_Filteringb.exe.
- CVE-2005-1941HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82005-06-08
SilverCity before 0.9.5-r1 installs (1) cgi-styler-form.py, (2) cgi-styler.py, and (3) source2html.py with read and write world permissions, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code.
- CVE-2002-1844HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82002-12-31
Microsoft Windows Media Player (WMP) 6.3, when installed on Solaris, installs executables with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to delete or modify the executables to gain privileges.
- CVE-2001-0497HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82001-07-21
dnskeygen in BIND 8.2.4 and earlier, and dnssec-keygen in BIND 9.1.2 and earlier, set insecure permissions for a HMAC-MD5 shared secret key file used for DNS Transactional Signatures (TSIG), which allows attackers to obtain the keys and pe…
- CVE-2022-25992HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.82023-02-16
Insecure inherited permissions in the Intel(R) oneAPI Toolkits oneapi-cli before version 0.2.0 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
- CVE-2022-36397HIGHCVSS 7.3EG 7.82023-02-16
Incorrect default permissions in the software installer for some Intel(R) QAT drivers for Linux before version 4.17 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
- CVE-2026-44469HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.82026-05-26
The affected product extracts installation files to a temporary directory with incorrect default permissions during administrative installation. A low-privileged local attacker can exploit a TOCTOU race condition with a practical time wind…
- CVE-2023-25542HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.82023-04-06
Dell Trusted Device Agent, versions prior to 5.3.0, contain(s) an improper installation permissions vulnerability. An unauthenticated local attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to escalated privileges.
- CVE-2022-45153HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.82023-02-15
An Incorrect Default Permissions vulnerability in saphanabootstrap-formula of SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for SAP Applications 15-SP1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP5; openSUSE Leap 15.4 allows local attackers to escalate to r…
- CVE-2022-33922HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.82022-10-12
Dell GeoDrive, versions prior to 2.2, contains Insecure File and Folder Permissions vulnerabilities. A low privilege attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to the execution of arbitrary code in the SYSTEM security c…
- CVE-2017-13311HIGHCVSS 6.7EG 7.82024-11-15
In the read() function of ProcessStats.java, there is a possible read/write serialization issue leading to a permissions bypass. This could lead to local escalation of privilege where an app can start an activity with system privileges wit…
- CVE-2023-41231HIGHCVSS 6.7EG 7.82024-02-14
Incorrect default permissions in some ACAT software maintained by Intel(R) before version 2.0.0 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
- CVE-2023-40154HIGHCVSS 6.7EG 7.82024-02-14
Incorrect default permissions in the Intel(R) SUR for Gameplay Software before version 2.0.1901 may allow privillaged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
- CVE-2023-34315HIGHCVSS 6.7EG 7.82024-02-14
Incorrect default permissions in some Intel(R) VROC software before version 8.0.8.1001 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
- CVE-2023-28739HIGHCVSS 6.7EG 7.82024-02-14
Incorrect default permissions in some Intel(R) Chipset Driver Software before version 10.1.19444.8378 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
- CVE-2022-36377HIGHCVSS 6.7EG 7.82022-11-11
Insecure inherited permissions in some Intel(R) Wireless Adapter Driver installation software for Intel(R) NUC Kits & Mini PCs before version 22.190.0.3 for Windows may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privil…
- CVE-2022-42464HIGHCVSS 6.7EG 7.82022-10-14
OpenHarmony-v3.1.2 and prior versions, 3.0.6 and prior versions have a Kernel memory pool override vulnerability in /dev/mmz_userdev device driver. The impact depends on the privileges of the attacker. The unprivileged process run on the d…
- CVE-2022-28702HIGHCVSS 6.1EG 7.82022-06-02
Incorrect Default Permissions vulnerability in ABB e-Design allows attacker to install malicious software executing with SYSTEM permissions violating confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the target machine.
- CVE-2021-43986HIGHCVSS 6.0EG 7.82022-04-20
The setup program for the affected product configures its files and folders with full access, which may allow unauthorized users permission to replace original binaries and achieve privilege escalation.
- CVE-2024-49736HIGHCVSS 5.5EG 7.82025-01-21
In onClick of MainClear.java, there is a possible way to trigger factory reset without explicit user consent due to a logic error in the code. This could lead to local denial of service with no additional execution privileges needed. User …
- CVE-2022-25815HIGHCVSS 5.5EG 7.82022-03-10
PendingIntent hijacking vulnerability in Weather application prior to SMR Mar-2022 Release 1 allows local attackers to perform unauthorized action without permission via hijacking the PendingIntent.
- CVE-2022-25814HIGHCVSS 5.5EG 7.82022-03-10
PendingIntent hijacking vulnerability in Wearable Manager Installer prior to SMR Mar-2022 Release 1 allows local attackers to perform unauthorized action without permission via hijacking the PendingIntent.
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