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CWE-708: Incorrect Ownership Assignment

Base

The product assigns an owner to a resource, but the owner is outside of the intended control sphere.

This may allow the resource to be manipulated by actors outside of the intended control sphere.

Consequences

  • Confidentiality, Integrity: Read Application Data, Modify Application Data

How to prevent it

  • Policy: Periodically review the privileges and their owners.

Recent advisories

  • GHSA-gfgr-6hrj-85ww — Juju affected by timing ownership claim attack on new external back-end secrets

All advisories for CWE-708

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