CWE-842Placement of User into Incorrect Group

Abstraction: Base · CVEs in our corpus: 12

The product or the administrator places a user into an incorrect group.

If the incorrect group has more access or privileges than the intended group, the user might be able to bypass intended security policy to access unexpected resources or perform unexpected actions. The access-control system might not be able to detect malicious usage of this group membership.

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: mostly · 5 mapping(s) from 3 framework(s): STIG windows server 2016 2 (mostly) · STIG windows server 2019 2 (mostly) · STIG windows 10 1 (mostly)

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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-2 Account Management

Detect

Catch it (CSF Detect / Respond)

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Harden

Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

6 hardening rules · 4 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-2024-25632`	6.5	8.6	0.0040	2024-10-01
`CVE-2024-10082`	6.2	8.7	0.0048	2024-11-06
`CVE-2022-3650`	5.8	7.8	0.0033	2023-01-17
`CVE-2023-25575`	5.7	7.7	0.0060	2023-02-28
`CVE-2026-73439`	5.6	7.5	0.0036	2026-09-16
`CVE-2022-31007`	5.4	4.9	0.2695	2022-05-31
`CVE-2022-2990`	5.4	7.1	0.0035	2022-09-13
`CVE-2022-2989`	5.3	7.1	0.0032	2022-09-13
`CVE-2022-45097`	5.0	6.3	0.0041	2023-02-01
`CVE-2026-102585`	3.5	4.3	0.0020	2026-09-30