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
78 results · Feed
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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 …
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Medium 4.1
In Wing FTP Server through 7.4.4, the administrative web interface (listening by default on port 5466) runs as root or …
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Medium 6.5
Two-factor Authentication (TFA) - Less critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2025-085
Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions vulnerability in Drupal Two-factor Authentication (TFA) allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Two-factor Authentication (TFA): from 0.0.0 before 1.11.0.
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High 8.5
Privilege Chaining in Delphix
An attacker with knowledge of creating user accounts during VM deployment on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using the OS Login feature, can login via SSH gaining command-line control of the operating system. This allows an attacker to gain access to sensitive da…
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High 8.8
Apache Cassandra: User with MODIFY permission on ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser via unsafe actions
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 …
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High 8.8CVE-2024-55968 Public exploit
An issue was discovered in DTEX DEC-M (DTEX Forwarder) 6.1.1. The com.dtexsystems.helper service, responsible for handl…
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High 7.8
Incorrect permissions in Ivanti Secure Access Client before 22.7R4 allows a local authenticated attacker to escalate th…
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High 7.3
Incorrect permissions in Ivanti Secure Access Client before version 22.7R4 allows a local authenticated attacker to cre…
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High 7.1
Improper authorization in Ivanti Secure Access Client before version 22.7R3 allows a local authenticated attacker to mo…
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High 7.8
Excessive binary privileges in Ivanti Connect Secure before version 22.7R2.3 (Not Applicable to 9.1Rx) and Ivanti Polic…
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Medium 5.5
Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions in GitLab
A privilege escalation issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 16.6 prior to 17.1.7, from 17.2 prior to 17.2.5, and from 17.3 prior to 17.3.2. A user assigned the Admin Group Member custom role could have escalated their pr…
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Medium 5.4
Untrusted search path vulnerability in B&R APROL
An untrusted search path vulnerability in B&R APROL <= R 4.4-00P3 may be used by an authenticated local attacker to get other users to execute arbitrary code under their privileges.
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High 7.3
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the AprolConfigureCCServices of B&R APROL
An untrusted search path vulnerability in the AprolConfigureCCServices of B&R APROL <= R 4.2.-07P3 and <= R 4.4-00P3 may allow an authenticated local attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
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Medium 6.7
Cisco NX-OS Bash Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability
A vulnerability in Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker with privileges to access the Bash shell to execute arbitrary code as root on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient security restrictions when ex…
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High 7.4CVE-2024-42365 Public exploit
Asterisk allows `Write=originate` as sufficient permissions for code execution / `System()` dialplan
Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange (PBX) and telephony toolkit. Prior to asterisk versions 18.24.2, 20.9.2, and 21.4.2 and certified-asterisk versions 18.9-cert11 and 20.7-cert2, an AMI user with `write=originate` may change all configuration …
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High 8.8
A vulnerability has been identified in SINEMA Remote Connect Server (All versions < V3.2 SP1). The affected application…
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High 7.8
In v4l2_smfc_qbuf of smfc-v4l2-ioctls.c, there is a possible out of bounds write due to a missing bounds check. This co…
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Medium 4.7
Dell Command | Monitor, versions prior to 10.9, contain an arbitrary folder deletion vulnerability. A locally authentic…
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Medium 6.5
Sielco Radio Link and Analog FM Transmitters Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions
The application suffers from a privilege escalation vulnerability. A user with read permissions can elevate privileges by sending a HTTP POST to set a parameter.
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High 8.7
BIG-IP Appliance mode external monitor vulnerability
When running in Appliance mode, an authenticated user assigned the Administrator role may be able to bypass Appliance mode restrictions, utilizing BIG-IP external monitor on a BIG-IP system. A successful exploit can allow the attacker to cross a security bou…
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High 8.8
A flaw within the SonicWall NetExtender Pre-Logon feature enables an unauthorized user to gain access to the host Windo…
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High 7.5
Dell PowerScale OneFS, versions 8.2.2.x-9.5.0.x, contains an improper privilege management vulnerability. A remote atta…
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Critical 9.9
Rancher vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via manipulation of Secrets
An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allowed standard users to leverage their existing permissions to manipulate Kubernetes secrets in the local cluster, resulting in the secret being deleted, but their read-level permissions to the …
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Medium 6.5
Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions in pimcore/pimcore
Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions in GitHub repository pimcore/pimcore prior to 10.5.23.
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High 8.7
A sandboxing issue in Odoo Community 15.0 and Odoo Enterprise 15.0 allows authenticated administrators to executed arbi…
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High 8.7
A sandboxing issue in Odoo Community 15.0 and earlier and Odoo Enterprise 15.0 and earlier allows authenticated adminis…
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High 8.7
A sandboxing issue in Odoo Community 15.0 and earlier and Odoo Enterprise 15.0 and earlier allows authenticated adminis…
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Medium 6.8
A sandboxing issue in Odoo Community 15.0 and earlier and Odoo Enterprise 15.0 and earlier allows authenticated adminis…
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Medium 6.1
Information Disclosure vulnerability in SAP Authenticator for Android
SAP Authenticator for Android - version 1.3.0, allows the screen to be captured, if an authorized attacker installs a malicious app on the mobile device. The attacker could extract the currently views of the OTP and the secret OTP alphanumeric token during th…
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Medium 5.7
Unwanted debug tool
Debug tool in Secomea SiteManager allows logged-in administrator to modify system state in an unintended manner.
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Unscored —
A vulnerability has been identified in Teamcenter V12.4 (All versions < V12.4.0.8), Teamcenter V13.0 (All versions < V1…
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High 8.8
Results of queries for ApiListener objects include the ticket salt which allows in turn to steal (more privileged) identities
Icinga is a monitoring system which checks the availability of network resources, notifies users of outages, and generates performance data for reporting. From version 2.4.0 through version 2.12.4, a vulnerability exists that may allow privilege escalation fo…
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Critical 9.9
A sandboxing issue in Odoo Community 11.0 through 13.0 and Odoo Enterprise 11.0 through 13.0, when running with Python …
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Medium 6.5
Ericssonlg iPECS Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of iPECS could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to get administrator permission. The vulnerability is due to insecure permission when handling session cookies. An attacker could exploit this vulnera…
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Medium 6.6
Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions in Keycloak
A flaw was found in the Keycloak admin console, where the realm management interface permits a script to be set via the policy. This flaw allows an attacker with authenticated user and realm management permissions to configure a malicious script to trigger an…
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Medium 6.6
Keycloak code execution via UMA policy abuse
A flaw was found in Keycloak’s user-managed access interface, where it would permit a script to be set in the UMA policy. This flaw allows an authenticated attacker with UMA permissions to configure a malicious script to trigger and execute arbitrary code wit…
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Medium 5.9
A flaw was found in the grub2-set-bootflag utility of grub2. A local attacker could run this utility under resource pre…
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Medium 5.5
A race condition was found in util-linux before 2.32.1 in the way su handled the management of child processes. A local…