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Excess Privileges.

      

Excess Privileges.

  

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Kavungya
This is a situation where users in a system have excess privileges--more privileges than they ought to have. If a cracker breaks into one user's account, he can compromise and damage that user's files, but he can't ordinarily get beyond the boundaries of the user's account to damage the rest of the system.
An ordinary user on an ordinary system doesn't need to be able to modify all of the files on that system. And yet, in many systems, a user has the system privileges that entitle him to do just that. The user may never actually want to change anyone else's files--he may not even know that he is allowed to--but nevertheless the privileges are there. If an intruder gets access to the system through the user's account, he can exploit this weakness.
Kavungya answered the question on May 17, 2019 at 09:13


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