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
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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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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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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
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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High 8.8
Privilege Chaining in hestiacp/hestiacp
Privilege Chaining in GitHub repository hestiacp/hestiacp prior to 1.8.9.