Weakness (CWE)
CWE-268: Privilege Chaining
Two distinct privileges, roles, capabilities, or rights can be combined in a way that allows an entity to perform unsafe actions that would not be allowed without that combination.
How to prevent it (3 mitigations)
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Architecture and Design
Consider following the principle of separation of privilege. Require multiple conditions to be met before permitting access to a system resource.
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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-268
25 results · Feed
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High 7.8
Privilege chaining issue exists in ServerView Agents for Windows V11.60.04 and earlier. If this vulnerability is exploi…
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High 7.8CVE-2026-3888 Public exploit
Local Privilege Escalation in snapd
Local privilege escalation in snapd on Linux allows local attackers to get root privilege by re-creating snap's private /tmp directory when systemd-tmpfiles is configured to automatically clean up this directory. This issue affects Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS…
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High 7.8
QND Premium/Advance/Standard Ver.11.0.9i and prior contains a privilege escalation vulnerability, which may allow a use…
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High 8.5
Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk® ViewPoint Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
A security issue exists in FactoryTalk ViewPoint version 14.0 or below due to improper handling of MSI repair operations. During a repair, attackers can hijack the cscript.exe console window, which runs with SYSTEM privileges. This can be exploited to spawn a…
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Medium 5.9
IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty bypass security
IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 25.0.0.8 could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions caused by a failure to honor JMS messaging configuration
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High 7.2
Privilege Management for Windows - Elevation of Privilege
Prior to version 25.4.270.0, a local authenticated attacker can manipulate user profile files to add illegitimate challenge response codes into the local user registry under certain conditions. This allows users with the ability to edit their user profile fil…
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High 7.4CVE-2025-49741 Public exploit
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Information Disclosure Vulnerability
No cwe for this issue in Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information over a network.
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Medium 5.1
Cisco Unified Communications Products Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
A vulnerability in multiple Cisco Unified Communications and Contact Center Solutions products could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to excessive permissions that have been …
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Medium 6.0
Harden-Runner Evasion of 'disable-sudo' policy
Harden-Runner is a CI/CD security agent that works like an EDR for GitHub Actions runners. Versions from 0.12.0 to before 2.12.0 are vulnerable to `disable-sudo` bypass. Harden-Runner includes a policy option `disable-sudo` to prevent the GitHub Actions runne…
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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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Critical 10.0
Users can gain privileged access to the host system and cluster with EventSource and Sensor CR
Argo Events is an event-driven workflow automation framework for Kubernetes. A user with permission to create/modify EventSource and Sensor custom resources can gain privileged access to the host system and cluster, even without having direct administrative p…
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High 8.8
OpenVPN version 2.4.0 through 2.6.10 on Windows allows an external, lesser privileged process to create a named pipe wh…
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High 7.2
Privilege Management for Windows – Elevation of Privilege
Prior to 25.2, a local authenticated attacker can elevate privileges on a system with Privilege Management for Windows installed, via the manipulation of COM objects under certain circumstances where an EPM policy allows for automatic privilege elevation of a…
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High 7.8
Privilege chaining issue exists in the installer of e-Tax software(common program). If this vulnerability is exploited,…
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Medium 6.5
silverstripe/framework Privilege Escalation Risk in Member Edit form
A member with the permission `EDIT_PERMISSIONS` and access to the "Security" section is able to re-assign themselves (or another member) to `ADMIN` level. CMS Fields for the member are constructed using DirectGroups instead of Groups relation which results in…
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Medium 6.5
Privilege Chaining in GitLab
A privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in GitLab affecting versions 16.8 prior to 16.8.4 and 16.9 prior to 16.9.2. It was possible for a user with custom role of `manage_group_access_tokens` to rotate group access tokens with owner privileges.
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Medium 6.5
Privilege Chaining in GitLab
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 16.8 before 16.8.2. When a user is assigned a custom role with manage_group_access_tokens permission, they may be able to create group access tokens with Owner privileges, which ma…
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High 8.8
Privilege Chaining in hestiacp/hestiacp
Privilege Chaining in GitHub repository hestiacp/hestiacp prior to 1.8.9.
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Medium 4.9
A vulnerability in the ERS API of Cisco ISE could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to read arbitrary files on th…
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Critical 9.6
Command Authentication Bypass in Z/IP Gateway
A logic error in SiLabs Z/IP Gateway SDK 7.18.02 and earlier allows authentication to be bypassed, remote administration of Z-Wave controllers, and S0/S2 encryption keys to be recovered.
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Medium 6.7
A flaw was found in the Open Cluster Management (OCM) when a user have access to the worker nodes which has the cluster…
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Medium 5.3
Privilege Chaining in cockpit-hq/cockpit
Privilege Chaining in GitHub repository cockpit-hq/cockpit prior to 2.3.8.
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Low 3.3
Sysadmin can override existing configs & bypass restrictions like EnableUploads
One of the API in Mattermost version 6.3.0 and earlier fails to properly protect the permissions, which allows the system administrators to combine the two distinct privileges/capabilities in a way that allows them to override certain restricted configuration…
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Medium 6.3
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in area17/twill
twill is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
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Medium 4.5CVE-2019-3844 Public exploit
It was discovered that a systemd service that uses DynamicUser property can get new privileges through the execution of…