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Setuid Binary

An executable with the set-user-ID bit, which runs with the privileges of the file's owner (often root) rather than the user who launched it. Setuid programs are a classic target for privilege escalation because any input they trust becomes a path to elevated code execution.

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Why Insecure File Permissions Let a Low-Privileged User Become Root

A privileged process, content it trusts, and a location an ordinary user can write to. That is the whole bug class behind CWE-276, and why it keeps surfacing in agents that run as root.

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