CWE - CWE-264: CWE CATEGORY: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (4.18)

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CWE CATEGORY: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Category ID: 264

Vulnerability Mapping: PROHIBITED This CWE ID must not be used to map to real-world vulnerabilities

Summary

Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features that are used to perform access control.

Membership

Nature	Type	ID	Name
MemberOf	ViewView - a subset of CWE entries that provides a way of examining CWE content. The two main view structures are Slices (flat lists) and Graphs (containing relationships between entries).	635	Weaknesses Originally Used by NVD from 2008 to 2016
MemberOf	CategoryCategory - a CWE entry that contains a set of other entries that share a common characteristic.	1345	OWASP Top Ten 2021 Category A01:2021 - Broken Access Control

Vulnerability Mapping Notes

Usage: PROHIBITED

(this CWE ID must not be used to map to real-world vulnerabilities)

Reason: Category

Rationale:

This entry is a Category. Using categories for mapping has been discouraged since 2019. Categories are informal organizational groupings of weaknesses that can help CWE users with data aggregation, navigation, and browsing. However, they are not weaknesses in themselves [REF-1287]. This CWE ID may have become widely-used because of NIST's usage in NVD from 2008 to 2016 (see CWE-635 view, updated to the CWE-1003 view in 2016).

Comments:

Some weakness-oriented alternatives might be found as descendants under Improper Access Control (CWE-284). Note: use of CWE-284 is Discouraged; see CWE-284's Mapping Notes.

Notes

Maintenance

This entry heavily overlaps other categories and has been marked obsolete.

References

[REF-7] Michael Howard and David LeBlanc. "Writing Secure Code". Chapter 7, "How Tokens, Privileges, SIDs, ACLs, and Processes Relate" Page 218. 2nd Edition. Microsoft Press. 2002年12月04日. <https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/store/writing-secure-code-9780735617223>.

[REF-1287] MITRE. "Supplemental Details - 2022 CWE Top 25". Details of Problematic Mappings. 2022年06月28日. <https://cwe.mitre.org/top25/archive/2022/2022_cwe_top25_supplemental.html#problematicMappingDetails>. URL validated: 2024年11月17日.

Content History

Submissions
Submission Date	Submitter	Organization
2006年07月19日 (CWE Draft 3, 2006年07月19日)	PLOVER
2006年07月19日 (CWE Draft 3, 2006年07月19日)
Modifications
Modification Date	Modifier	Organization
2008年09月08日	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2008年09月08日	updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2010年02月16日	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2010年02月16日	updated References
2011年03月29日	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2011年03月29日	updated Relationships
2012年10月30日	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2012年10月30日	updated Potential_Mitigations
2014年07月30日	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2014年07月30日	updated Detection_Factors
2015年12月07日	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2015年12月07日	updated Relationships
2017年11月08日	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2017年11月08日	updated Applicable_Platforms, Detection_Factors, Potential_Mitigations, References, Related_Attack_Patterns, Relationships
2018年03月27日	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2018年03月27日	updated References
2019年06月20日	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2019年06月20日	updated Relationships
2020年02月24日	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2020年02月24日	updated Maintenance_Notes, Relationships
2021年10月28日	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2021年10月28日	updated Relationships
2022年10月13日	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2022年10月13日	updated Maintenance_Notes, References
2023年06月29日	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2023年06月29日	updated Mapping_Notes

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