stop over-reporting world-writable directories #6936
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Fix world-writable audit false positives by expanding generic permissions with MapGenericMask and then checking only concrete write bits. The earlier check looked for FILE_GENERIC_WRITE/generic masks directly, which shares bits with read permissions and could flag an Everyone read ACE as writable.