CWE-274Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges

Abstraction: Base · CVEs in our corpus: 42

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles when it has insufficient privileges to perform an operation, leading to resultant weaknesses.

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 · 3 mapping(s) from 2 framework(s): STIG oracle linux 9 2 (partial) · STIG rhel 9 1 (partial)

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OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

This weakness contributes to A10:2025 Mishandling of Exceptional Conditions.

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-3 Access Enforcement
AC-24 Access Control Decisions
AC-25 Reference Monitor

Detect

Catch it (CSF Detect / Respond)

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Harden

Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

5 hardening rules · 3 OS baselines

Validate

Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)

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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-2025-29365`	7.3	9.8	0.0050	2025-08-22
`CVE-2025-20156`	7.2	9.9	0.0119	2025-01-22
`CVE-2024-0105`	6.2	8.9	0.0027	2024-11-01
`CVE-2020-7264`	6.1	8.8	0.0026	2020-05-08
`CVE-2020-7265`	6.1	8.8	0.0026	2020-05-08
`CVE-2020-7266`	6.1	8.8	0.0026	2020-05-08
`CVE-2020-7267`	6.1	8.8	0.0026	2020-05-08
`CVE-2023-35928`	6.1	8.4	0.0098	2023-06-23
`CVE-2024-21648`	6.1	8.0	0.0051	2024-01-09
`CVE-2023-39375`	6.0	7.5	0.0077	2023-09-27
`CVE-2022-45101`	5.9	7.3	0.0082	2023-02-01
`CVE-2024-0106`	5.9	8.7	0.0017	2024-11-01
`CVE-2020-24676`	5.8	7.8	0.0043	2020-12-22
`CVE-2021-35534`	5.8	7.2	0.0179	2021-11-18
`CVE-2024-46974`	5.6	7.8	0.0016	2025-01-31
`CVE-2020-7289`	5.5	7.8	0.0034	2020-05-08
`CVE-2020-7283`	5.5	7.5	0.0062	2020-07-03
`CVE-2024-41942`	5.5	7.2	0.0059	2024-08-08
`CVE-2020-7285`	5.4	7.8	0.0025	2020-05-08
`CVE-2020-7286`	5.4	7.8	0.0025	2020-05-08
`CVE-2020-7287`	5.4	7.8	0.0025	2020-05-08
`CVE-2020-7288`	5.4	7.8	0.0025	2020-05-08
`CVE-2020-7290`	5.4	7.8	0.0025	2020-05-08
`CVE-2020-7291`	5.4	7.8	0.0025	2020-05-08
`CVE-2022-23511`	5.2	7.1	0.0052	2022-12-12