Weakness (CWE)
CWE-267: Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions
A particular privilege, role, capability, or right can be used to perform unsafe actions that were not intended, even when it is assigned to the correct entity.
How to prevent it (2 mitigations)
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Architecture and Design, Operation
Very carefully manage the setting, management, and handling of privileges. Explicitly manage trust zones in the software.
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Architecture and Design, Operation
Run your code using the lowest privileges that are required to accomplish the necessary tasks [REF-76]. If possible, create isolated accounts with limited privileges that are only used for a single task. That way, a successful attack will not immediately give the attacker access to the rest of the software or its environment. For example, database applications rarely need to run as the database administrator, especially in day-to-day operations.
Source: MITRE CWE-267
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High 7.2
Custom Formatters - Critical - Remote code execution - SA-CONTRIB-2026-225
Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions vulnerability in Drupal Custom Formatters allows Privilege Escalation. This issue affects Custom Formatters versions: from 0.0.0 to 4.2.1.
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High 8.1
Asterisk: ARI setChannelVar bypasses live_dangerously and permits FILE() writes
Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit. Prior to Asterisk 20.20.1, 21.12.3, 22.10.1, 23.4.1 and Certified Asterisk 20.7-cert11, 22.8-cert3, an authenticated Asterisk REST Interface (ARI) attacker with read-only privileges may…
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Low 3.1
Webform - Moderately critical - Cross-site scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2026-161
Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions vulnerability in Drupal Webform allows Stored XSS. This issue affects Webform versions: from 0.0.0 to 6.2.12, from 6.3.0 to 6.3.1.
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Medium 4.6
Webform - Moderately critical - Cross-site scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2026-162
Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions vulnerability in Drupal Webform allows Stored XSS. This issue affects Webform versions: from 0.0.0 to 6.2.12, from 6.3.0 to 6.3.1.
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Medium 5.4
Webform - Moderately critical - Cross-site scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2026-166
Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions vulnerability in Drupal Webform allows Stored XSS. This issue affects Webform versions: from 0.0.0 to 6.2.12, from 6.3.0 to 6.3.1.
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Medium 4.3
Editoria11y Accessibility Checker - Moderately critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2026-185
Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions vulnerability in Drupal Editoria11y Accessibility Checker allows Privilege Escalation. This issue affects Editoria11y Accessibility Checker versions: from 0.0.0 to 2.2.23, from 3.0.0 to 3.0.9.
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High 8.8
Colorful iGameCenter Dispatch AMDRyzenMasterDriver.sys MmMapIoSpace privilege defined with unsafe actions
A flaw has been found in Colorful iGameCenter 2.0.0.82. Affected by this vulnerability is the function MmMapIoSpace in the library AMDRyzenMasterDriver.sys of the component Dispatch Handler. This manipulation of the argument SystemBuffer causes privilege defi…
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Critical 9.1
Foreman: excessive permissions for viewer role on preview
A flaw was found in Foreman. This vulnerability allows an authenticated user with low-level Viewer permissions to cause unauthorized information disclosure by submitting requests to template preview endpoints. By exploiting this issue, the user can access sen…
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Low 3.3
IBM i is Affected By Obtaining Sensitive Information Vulnerability in OpenSSH []
IBM i 7.6, and 7.5 could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain information from a privileged file when using SSH.
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Low 3.3
Content Moderation Notifications - Moderately critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2026-107
Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions vulnerability in Drupal Content Moderation Notifications allows Privilege Escalation. This issue affects Content Moderation Notifications versions: from 0.0.0 to 3.9.0.
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High 7.5
DS8900F and DS8A00 Privilege Escalation
IBM System Storage DS8A00 10.1.3.0 through 10.11.35.0 and IBM DS8900F 89.40.83.0 through 89.44.25.0 could allow an authenticated user to create a user with privileged user roles due to improper privileged defined with unsafe actions.
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High 8.8
Odh-training-operator-rhel9: [trainer v2 security] trn-02: rhoai overlay aggregates trainjobs crud into standard edit clusterrole
A flaw was found in the Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) overlay for the training operator. The RHOAI overlay incorrectly aggregates `trainjobs` management permissions into the native Kubernetes `edit ClusterRole`. This allows any user with `edit ClusterRole` per…
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Critical 9.0
Multicluster-operators-subscription: multicluster-operators-subscription: namespace edit user can deploy cluster-scoped clusterrolebinding and become cluster-admin via application subscription
A flaw was found in the Application Subscription controller (multicluster-operators-subscription) of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (ACM). A user with namespace-scoped "edit" privileges in an ACM hub namespace can create a Channel resource…
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Medium 5.1
TFA Basic Plugins - Access Bypass
An access bypass vulnerability in Drupal TFA Basic Plugins allows users with the administer users permission to view or generate recovery codes for other users. This issue affects TFA Basic Plugins: from 7.x-1.0 through 7.x-1.2.
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High 8.9CVE-2026-9560 Public exploit
Privilege escalation via background service of OpenVPN Connect 3.5.1 through 3.8.1 on macOS allows attackers to execute…
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Medium 6.5
BIG-IP and BIG-IQ privilege escalation vulnerability
A vulnerability exists in BIG-IP and BIG-IQ systems where a highly privileged, authenticated attacker with at least the Certificate Manager role can modify configuration objects that allow running arbitrary commands. Note: Software versions which have rea…
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Critical 9.8
In OpenXiangShan NEMU prior to 55295c4, when running with RVH (Hypervisor extension) enabled, a VS-mode guest write to …
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High 8.8
Apache Cassandra: Privilege escalation via ADD IDENTITY authorization bypass
Privilege escalation in Apache Cassandra 5.0 on an mTLS environment using MutualTlsAuthenticator allows a user with only CREATE permission to associate their own certificate identity with an arbitrary role, including a superuser role, and authenticate as that…
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High 7.6
A vulnerability exists in REB500 for an authenticated user with low-level privileges to access and alter the content of…
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High 7.4
A vulnerability exists in REB500 for an authenticated user with Installer role to access and alter the contents of dire…
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High 8.8
Business Logic Error in Universal Software's FlexCity/Kiosk
Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions, Missing Authentication for Critical Function vulnerability in Universal Software Inc. FlexCity/Kiosk allows Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs, Privilege Escalation. This issue affects FlexCity/Kios…
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Medium 5.4
Role Delegation - Moderately critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2026-002
Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions vulnerability in Drupal Role Delegation allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects Role Delegation: from 1.3.0 before 1.5.0.
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Medium 5.4
Mini site - Moderately critical - Cross-Site Scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2025-117
Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions vulnerability in Drupal Mini site allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Mini site: from 0.0.0 before 3.0.2.
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High 8.5
CVAT vulnerable to privilege escalation of users with staff status
CVAT is an open source interactive video and image annotation tool for computer vision. In versions 1.0.0 through 2.54.0, users that have the staff status may freely change their permissions, including giving themselves superuser status and joining the admin …
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Medium 6.5
Kiteworks MFT has a Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions
Kiteworks MFT orchestrates end-to-end file transfer workflows. Prior to version 9.1.0, an unfavourable definition of roles and permissions in Kiteworks MFT on managing Connections could lead to unexpected escalation of privileges for authorized users. This is…
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High 8.2CVE-2025-62641 Public exploit
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that a…
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High 8.2
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that a…
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High 8.2
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that a…
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Medium 6.0
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that a…
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High 8.2
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that a…
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High 8.2
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that a…
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Low 2.7
Vulnerability in the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Kit product of Oracle Systems (component: Naming Subsystem). The supp…
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Low 2.7
Vulnerability in the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Kit product of Oracle Systems (component: Block Storage). The support…
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Medium 4.9
Vulnerability in the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Kit product of Oracle Systems (component: Filesystems). The supported…
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Medium 4.9
Vulnerability in the Oracle Health Sciences Data Management Workbench product of Oracle Health Sciences Applications (c…
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Medium 6.5
Vulnerability in the Oracle BI Publisher product of Oracle Analytics (component: Web Service API). Supported versions t…
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Medium 5.5
Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Filesystem). The supported version that is af…
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High 7.8
VMSA-2025-0015: VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools updates address multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-41244,CVE-2025-41245, CVE-2025-41246)
VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious local actor with non-administrative privileges having access to a VM with VMware Tools installed and managed by Aria Operations with SDMP enabled may explo…
KEV Oct 30, 2025 -
Medium 6.5
Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions in GitLab
A privilege escalation issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.6 prior to 18.2.7, 18.3 prior to 18.3.3, and 18.4 prior to 18.4.1 that could have allowed a developer with specific group management permissions to escalate their pri…
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High 8.8
Apache Cassandra: User with MODIFY permission on ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser via unsafe actions (4.0.16 only)
Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions vulnerability in Apache Cassandra. An user with MODIFY permission ON ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser within a targeted Cassandra cluster via unsafe actions to a system resource. Operators granting data …