Least Privilege Violation

Properties

id: d3f:CWE-272

name
Least Privilege Violation
definition
The elevated privilege level required to perform operations such as chroot() should be dropped immediately after the operation is performed.
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Neighbors

CWE-272 has no direct neighbors in this release.

Inferred Relationships

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