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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
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.