Variant weakness
Draft
CWE-277: Insecure Inherited Permissions
A product defines a set of insecure permissions that are inherited by objects that are created by the program.
Last updated
65
Recorded CVEs
With this primary weakness
0
KEVs
In the CISA KEV catalog
Not rated
Likelihood of exploit
Per MITRE
Variant
Abstraction
MITRE classification
Overview
CWE-277 (Insecure Inherited Permissions) is a variant-level software weakness catalogued by MITRE in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE). It describes a recurring type of mistake that can lead to exploitable security vulnerabilities.
Real-world CVEs
65 recorded CVEs are caused by CWE-277 (Insecure Inherited Permissions). The highest-severity and most recent are shown first. 5 new CWE-277 CVEs have been recorded so far in 2026 (15 in 2025).