CWE-648 Detail

CWE-648

Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs
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2008-01-30
00h00 +00:00
2025-12-11
00h00 +00:00
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Nome: Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs

The product does not conform to the API requirements for a function call that requires extra privileges. This could allow attackers to gain privileges by causing the function to be called incorrectly.

General Informations

Modes Of Introduction

Architecture and Design
Implementation
Operation

Piattaforme applicabili

Linguaggio

Class: Not Language-Specific (Undetermined)

Conseguenze comuni

Ambito Impatto Probabilità
Access ControlGain Privileges or Assume Identity

Note: An attacker may be able to elevate privileges.
ConfidentialityRead Application Data

Note: An attacker may be able to obtain sensitive information.
Integrity
Confidentiality
Availability		Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands

Note: An attacker may be able to execute code.

Esempi osservati

Riferimenti Descrizione

CVE-2003-0645

A Unix utility that displays online help files, if installed setuid, could allow a local attacker to gain privileges when a particular file-opening function is called.

Potential Mitigations

Phases : Implementation
Before calling privileged APIs, always ensure that the assumptions made by the privileged code hold true prior to making the call.
Phases : Architecture and Design
Know architecture and implementation weaknesses of the privileged APIs and make sure to account for these weaknesses before calling the privileged APIs to ensure that they can be called safely.
Phases : Implementation
If privileged APIs make certain assumptions about data, context or state validity that are passed by the caller, the calling code must ensure that these assumptions have been validated prior to making the call.
Phases : Implementation
If privileged APIs do not shed their privilege prior to returning to the calling code, then calling code needs to shed these privileges immediately and safely right after the call to the privileged APIs. In particular, the calling code needs to ensure that a privileged thread of execution will never be returned to the user or made available to user-controlled processes.
Phases : Implementation
Only call privileged APIs from safe, consistent and expected state.
Phases : Implementation
Ensure that a failure or an error will not leave a system in a state where privileges are not properly shed and privilege escalation is possible (i.e. fail securely with regards to handling of privileges).

Note sulla mappatura delle vulnerabilità

Giustificazione : This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.
Commento : Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

Pattern di attacco correlati

CAPEC-ID Nome del pattern di attacco
CAPEC-107 Cross Site Tracing
Cross Site Tracing (XST) enables an adversary to steal the victim's session cookie and possibly other authentication credentials transmitted in the header of the HTTP request when the victim's browser communicates to a destination system's web server.
CAPEC-234 Hijacking a privileged process
An adversary gains control of a process that is assigned elevated privileges in order to execute arbitrary code with those privileges. Some processes are assigned elevated privileges on an operating system, usually through association with a particular user, group, or role. If an attacker can hijack this process, they will be able to assume its level of privilege in order to execute their own code.

Invio

Nome Organizzazione Data Data di rilascio Version
Evgeny Lebanidze Cigital 2008-01-30 +00:00 2008-01-30 +00:00 Draft 8

Modifiche

Nome Organizzazione Data Commento
CWE Content Team MITRE 2008-09-08 +00:00 updated Common_Consequences, Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2008-10-14 +00:00 updated Description, Potential_Mitigations
CWE Content Team MITRE 2009-05-27 +00:00 updated Name, Related_Attack_Patterns
CWE Content Team MITRE 2009-10-29 +00:00 updated Common_Consequences
CWE Content Team MITRE 2010-04-05 +00:00 updated Related_Attack_Patterns
CWE Content Team MITRE 2010-12-13 +00:00 updated Common_Consequences, Description
CWE Content Team MITRE 2011-03-29 +00:00 updated Description, Potential_Mitigations
CWE Content Team MITRE 2011-06-01 +00:00 updated Common_Consequences
CWE Content Team MITRE 2012-05-11 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2012-10-30 +00:00 updated Potential_Mitigations
CWE Content Team MITRE 2014-07-30 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2017-11-08 +00:00 updated Applicable_Platforms, Enabling_Factors_for_Exploitation, Observed_Examples, Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2018-03-27 +00:00 updated Observed_Examples
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-01-31 +00:00 updated Description
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-04-27 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-06-29 +00:00 updated Mapping_Notes, Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2025-12-11 +00:00 updated Weakness_Ordinalities
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