Description

The product, while copying or cloning a resource, does not set the resource’s permissions or access control until the copy is complete, leaving the resource exposed to other spheres while the copy is taking place.

Modes of Introduction:

– Implementation

Related Weaknesses

CWE-362
CWE-362
CWE-732

Consequences

Confidentiality, Integrity: Read Application Data, Modify Application Data

Potential Mitigations

CVE References

• CVE-2002-0760
  • Archive extractor decompresses files with world-readable permissions, then later sets permissions to what the archive specified.

• CVE-2005-2174
  • Product inserts a new object into database before setting the object’s permissions, introducing a race condition.

• CVE-2006-5214
  • Error file has weak permissions before a chmod is performed.

• CVE-2005-2475
  • Archive permissions issue using hard link.

• CVE-2003-0265
  • Database product creates files world-writable before initializing the setuid bits, leading to modification of executables.