Weakness (CWE)
CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management
The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
How to prevent it (3 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
Follow the principle of least privilege when assigning access rights to entities in a software system.
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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.
Source: MITRE CWE-269
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Critical 9.6
Inappropriate implementation in OS in Google Chrome on ChromeOS prior to 75.0.3770.80 allowed a remote attacker to perf…
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Critical 9.8
Donation Forms by Charitable <= 1.7.0.12 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
The Donation Forms by Charitable plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 1.7.0.12 due to insufficient restriction on the 'update_core_user' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to …
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Critical 9.1
Privilege Escalation in kubepi
KubePi is an opensource kubernetes management panel. A normal user has permission to create/update users, they can become admin by editing the `isadmin` value in the request. As a result any user may take administrative control of KubePi. This issue has been …
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Critical 9.1CVE-2023-30799 Public exploit
MikroTik RouterOS Administrator Privilege Escalation
MikroTik RouterOS stable before 6.49.7 and long-term through 6.48.6 are vulnerable to a privilege escalation issue. A remote and authenticated attacker can escalate privileges from admin to super-admin on the Winbox or HTTP interface. The attacker can abuse t…
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Critical 10.0
XWiki Platform's Mail.MailConfig can be edited by any user with edit rights
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Starting in version 11.8-rc-1 and prior to versions 14.4.8, 14.10.6, and 15.2, `Mail.MailConfig` can be edited by any logged-in user by default. Consequently, they can change the mail obfuscation configuration and vi…
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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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Critical 9.8
Apache InLong: Privilege escalation vulnerability for InLong
Improper Privilege Management Vulnerabilities in Apache Software Foundation Apache InLong.This issue affects Apache InLong: from 1.2.0 through 1.6.0. When the attacker has access to a valid (but unprivileged) account, the exploit can be executed using Burp S…
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Critical 9.9
Rancher Webhook is misconfigured during upgrade process
Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allows Privilege Escalation. A failure in the update logic of Rancher's admission Webhook may lead to the misconfiguration of the Webhook. This component enforces validation rules and security checks…
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Critical 9.3CVE-2022-3405 Public exploit
Code execution and sensitive information disclosure due to excessive privileges assigned to Acronis Agent. The followin…
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Critical 9.1
Improper privilege management vulnerability in CyberPower PowerPanel Business
Improper privilege management vulnerability in default.cmd file in PowerPanel Business Local/Remote for Windows v4.8.6 and earlier, PowerPanel Business Management for Windows v4.8.6 and earlier, PowerPanel Business Local/Remote for Linux 32bit v4.8.6 and earl…
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Critical 9.8
An issue found in WHOv.1.0.28, v.1.0.30, v.1.0.32 allows an attacker to cause a escalation of privileges via the TTMult…
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Critical 9.3
On affected modular platforms running Arista EOS equipped with both redundant supervisor modules and having the redundancy protocol configured with RPR or SSO, an existing unprivileged user can login to the standby supervisor as a root user, leading t ...
On affected modular platforms running Arista EOS equipped with both redundant supervisor modules and having the redundancy protocol configured with RPR or SSO, an existing unprivileged user can login to the standby supervisor as a root user, leading to a priv…
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Critical 9.0
TightVNC before v2.8.75 allows attackers to escalate privileges on the host operating system via replacing legitimate f…
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Critical 9.8
An issue found in POWERAMP audioplayer build 925 bundle play and build 954 allows a remote attacker to gain privileges …
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Critical 9.8
Some smartphones have configuration issues. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause kernel privilege es…
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Critical 10.0CVE-2023-26475 EPSS 64%
XWiki Platform vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in Annotations
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Starting in version 2.3-milestone-1, the annotation displayer does not execute the content in a restricted context. This allows executing anything with the right of the author of any document by annotating the docume…
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Critical 9.8
A piece of Huawei whole-home intelligence software has an Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability. Successful expl…
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Critical 9.8
A piece of Huawei whole-home intelligence software has an Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability. Successful expl…
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Critical 9.8
h3c firewall <= 3.10 ESS6703 has a privilege bypass vulnerability.
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Critical 9.8
Some smartphones have configuration issues. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause privilege escalatio…
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Critical 9.8
WordPress ARMember Plugin <= 5.5.1 is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation
Unauth. Privilege Escalation vulnerability in ARMember premium plugin <= 5.5.1 on WordPress.
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Critical 9.1CVE-2022-41923 Public exploit
Grails Spring Security Core plugin vulnerable to privilege escalation
Grails Spring Security Core plugin is vulnerable to privilege escalation. The vulnerability allows an attacker access to one endpoint (i.e. the targeted endpoint) using the authorization requirements of a different endpoint (i.e. the donor endpoint). In some …
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Critical 9.8
A potential security vulnerability has been identified in OMEN Gaming Hub and in HP Command Center which may allow esca…
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Critical 9.8
Dolibarr vulnerable to privilege escalation
Dolibarr Open Source ERP & CRM for Business before v14.0.1 allows attackers to escalate privileges via a crafted API.
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Critical 9.6
Vela Insecure Defaults
Vela is a Pipeline Automation (CI/CD) framework built on Linux container technology written in Golang. In Vela Server and Vela Worker prior to version 0.16.0 and Vela UI prior to version 0.17.0, some default configurations for Vela allow exploitation and cont…
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Critical 9.8
Symantec Endpoint Detection and Response (SEDR) Appliance, prior to 4.7.0, may be susceptible to a privilege escalation…
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Critical 9.8
Improper Privilege Management in tooljet/tooljet
Account Takeover :: when see the info i can see the hash pass i can creaked it ............... Account Takeover :: when see the info i can see the forgot_password_token the hacker can send the request and changed the pass
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Critical 9.8
The location module has a vulnerability of bypassing permission verification.Successful exploitation of this vulnerabil…
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Critical 9.9
Improper access control allows admin privilege escalation in Argo CD
All unpatched versions of Argo CD starting with v1.0.0 are vulnerable to an improper access control bug, allowing a malicious user to potentially escalate their privileges to admin-level.
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Critical 9.9
Secheron SEPCOS Control and Protection Relay
The www-data (Apache web server) account is configured to run sudo with no password for many commands (including /bin/sh and /bin/bash).
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Critical 9.0
Improper Privilege Management in nocodb/nocodb
Improper Privilege Management in GitHub repository nocodb/nocodb prior to 0.91.7+.
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Critical 9.8CVE-2022-31267 EPSS 18%
Unescaped control characters in Gitblit
Gitblit 1.9.2 allows privilege escalation via the Config User Service: a control character can be placed in a profile data field, such as an emailAddress%3Atext 'attacker@example.com\n\trole = "#admin"' value.
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Critical 9.9
Improper Privilege Management in polonel/trudesk
Improper Privilege Management in GitHub repository polonel/trudesk prior to 1.2.2.
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Critical 9.8
aEnrich a+HRD - Broken Access Control
aEnrich a+HRD has inadequate privilege restrictions, an unauthenticated remote attacker can use the API function to upload and execute malicious scripts to control the system or disrupt service.
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Critical 10.0
Sandbox bypass leading to arbitrary code execution in Deno
Deno is a runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript. The versions of Deno between release 1.18.0 and 1.20.2 (inclusive) are vulnerable to an attack where a malicious actor controlling the code executed in a Deno runtime could bypass all permission checks and exec…
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Critical 9.8
Improper Privilege Management in Open Web Analytics
Open Web Analytics (OWA) before 1.7.4 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to obtain sensitive user information, which can be used to gain admin privileges by leveraging cache hashes. This occurs because files generated with '<?php (instead of the intend…
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Critical 9.9
All Dell EMC Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub versions contain a privilege escalation vulnerability. A r…
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Critical 9.8
Improper Privilege Management in Gitea
An issue exsits in Gitea through 1.15.7, which could let a malicious user gain privileges due to client side cookies not being deleted and the session remains valid on the server side for reuse.
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Critical 9.8
exacqVision Web Service
Under certain configurations an unauthenticated remote user could be given access to credentials stored in the exacqVision Server.
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Critical 9.8
Apache Airflow: Variable Import endpoint missed authentication check
The variable import endpoint was not protected by authentication in Airflow >=2.0.0, <2.1.3. This allowed unauthenticated users to hit that endpoint to add/modify Airflow variables used in DAGs, potentially resulting in a denial of service, information disclo…