Compound weakness
Composite
Draft
CWE-689: Permission Race Condition During Resource Copy
The product, while copying or cloning a resource, does not set the resource's permissions or access control until the copy is complete, leaving the resource exposed to other spheres while the copy is taking place.
Last updated
3
Recorded CVEs
With this primary weakness
0
KEVs
In the CISA KEV catalog
Not rated
Likelihood of exploit
Per MITRE
Compound
Abstraction
MITRE classification
Overview
CWE-689 (Permission Race Condition During Resource Copy) is a compound-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
3 recorded CVEs are caused by CWE-689 (Permission Race Condition During Resource Copy). The highest-severity and most recent are shown first. 0 new CWE-689 CVEs have been recorded so far in 2026 (2 in 2025).