Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE Definition / CWE-271

    CWE-271: Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors

    The product does not drop privileges before passing control of a resource to an actor that does not have those privileges.

    Published:19 Jul 2006
    Organization:MITRE
    Modified:29 Jun 2023

    Related Weakness

    CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management