Vulnerabilities > Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2010-05-28 CVE-2010-2116 Incorrect Permission Assignment FOR Critical Resource vulnerability in Mcafee Email Gateway and Secure Mail
The web interface in McAfee Email Gateway (formerly IronMail) 6.7.1 allows remote authenticated users, with only Read privileges, to gain Write privileges to modify configuration via the save action in a direct request to admin/systemWebAdminConfig.do.
network
low complexity
mcafee CWE-732
6.5
2009-11-24 CVE-2009-3897 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in Dovecot
Dovecot 1.2.x before 1.2.8 sets 0777 permissions during creation of certain directories at installation time, which allows local users to access arbitrary user accounts by replacing the auth socket, related to the parent directories of the base_dir directory, and possibly the base_dir directory itself.
local
low complexity
dovecot CWE-732
5.5
2009-11-16 CVE-2009-3939 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in multiple products
The poll_mode_io file for the megaraid_sas driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.31.6 and earlier has world-writable permissions, which allows local users to change the I/O mode of the driver by modifying this file.
7.1
2009-10-26 CVE-2009-3611 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in multiple products
common/snapshots.py in Back In Time (aka backintime) 0.9.26 changes certain permissions to 0777 before deleting the files in an old backup snapshot, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading these files, or interfere with backup integrity by modifying files that are shared across snapshots.
local
low complexity
le-web fedoraproject CWE-732
7.1
2009-09-30 CVE-2009-3489 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0
Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 installs the Adobe Active File Monitor V8 service with an insecure security descriptor, which allows local users to (1) stop the service via the stop command, (2) execute arbitrary commands as SYSTEM by using the config command to modify the binPath variable, or (3) restart the service via the start command.
local
low complexity
adobe CWE-732
7.8
2009-09-30 CVE-2009-3482 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in Trustport Antivirus and PC Security
TrustPort Antivirus before 2.8.0.2266 and PC Security before 2.0.0.1291 use weak permissions (Everyone: Full Control) for files under %PROGRAMFILES%, which allows local users to gain privileges by replacing executables with Trojan horse programs.
local
low complexity
trustport CWE-732
7.8
2009-09-22 CVE-2009-3289 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in multiple products
The g_file_copy function in glib 2.0 sets the permissions of a target file to the permissions of a symbolic link (777), which allows user-assisted local users to modify files of other users, as demonstrated by using Nautilus to modify the permissions of the user home directory.
local
low complexity
gnome opensuse suse CWE-732
7.8
2009-03-31 CVE-2009-1073 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in Debian Linux and Nss-Ldap
nss-ldapd before 0.6.8 uses world-readable permissions for the /etc/nss-ldapd.conf file, which allows local users to obtain a cleartext password for the LDAP server by reading the bindpw field.
local
low complexity
debian CWE-732
5.5
2009-03-30 CVE-2009-0115 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in multiple products
The Device Mapper multipathing driver (aka multipath-tools or device-mapper-multipath) 0.4.8, as used in SUSE openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), Fedora, and possibly other operating systems, uses world-writable permissions for the socket file (aka /var/run/multipathd.sock), which allows local users to send arbitrary commands to the multipath daemon.
7.8
2009-02-13 CVE-2009-0141 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in Apple mac OS X and mac OS X Server
XTerm in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.6, when used with luit, creates tty devices with insecure world-writable permissions, which allows local users to write to the Xterm of another user.
local
low complexity
apple CWE-732
5.5