Security Resilience

CWE · MITRE source

CWE-267Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions

Abstraction: Base · CVEs in our corpus: 71

A particular privilege, role, capability, or right can be used to perform unsafe actions that were not intended, even when it is assigned to the correct entity.

Last updated: 14 October 2026 20:41 UTC

Cumulative inbound coverage

How completely the frameworks we cross-walk collectively cover this — the verdict is the strongest single mapping (overlapping partials are not summed); breadth shows the corroboration behind it.

Collective: partial · 6 mapping(s) from 3 framework(s): STIG ubuntu 22 04 3 (partial) · ATT&CK 2 (partial) · STIG oracle linux 9 1 (partial)

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Control responseHuman-reviewed

Answering this weakness across the control lifecycle, from our framework cross-walks.

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53 / CSF Protect)
  • PR.AA-05
  • AC-5 Separation of Duties
  • AC-6 Least Privilege
Detect
Catch it (CSF Detect / Respond)

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Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 10 hardening rules · 4 OS baselines
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V13.2.2
  • V3.7.3
  • V9.2.2
  • V9.2.3

NIST 800-53 r5 controls PROPOSED for this weakness (0)AI-assisted

These are model PROPOSALS, not graded mappings. They come from controls_to_cwe_proposals, which carries no grade field at all; across the CWE pages 1,540 of 1,722 such associations (89%) have never been graded by anything. The heading said “address” until 2026-09-29, which asserted a relationship the data does not carry. Graded cross-walks are on the framework map, not here.

Control Title Family Why it addresses this CWE
No NIST controls proposed yet.

Top CVEs of this weakness type, ranked by Risk Priority

CVE Risk CVSS EPSS Published
CVE-2025-41244 KEV 8.57.80.08442025-09-29
CVE-2026-296467.49.80.00682026-04-20
CVE-2023-22647 7.19.90.00722023-06-01
CVE-2020-29396 7.08.80.03112020-12-22
CVE-2021-32739 6.88.80.01142021-07-15
CVE-2023-2983 6.78.80.00922023-05-30
CVE-2024-55968 6.78.80.01022025-01-28
CVE-2025-23015 6.78.80.01012025-02-04
CVE-2026-18951 6.78.80.00922026-08-10
CVE-2025-26467 6.68.80.00522025-08-25
CVE-2021-44547 6.59.10.00692023-04-25
CVE-2025-14349 6.58.80.00412026-02-13
CVE-2026-27314 6.58.80.00342026-04-07
CVE-2023-44218 6.48.80.00222023-10-03
CVE-2024-39866 6.48.80.00242024-07-09
CVE-2026-23526 6.48.80.00292026-01-21
CVE-2026-0945 6.48.80.00252026-02-04
CVE-2026-10090 6.49.00.00582026-08-05
CVE-2026-966596.49.10.00332026-10-01
CVE-2021-23166 6.38.70.00652023-04-25
CVE-2021-23186 6.38.70.00642023-04-25
CVE-2023-43746 6.38.70.00532023-10-10
CVE-2024-42365 6.17.40.04662024-08-08
CVE-2026-2459 6.18.10.00352026-02-24
CVE-2026-42406 6.18.70.00252026-05-13