Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE Definition / CWE-272

    CWE-272: Least Privilege Violation

    The elevated privilege level required to perform operations such as chroot() should be dropped immediately after the operation is performed.

    Published:19 Jul 2006
    Organization:MITRE
    Modified:9 Sep 2025

    Related Weakness

    CWE-271: Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors