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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High 7.8CVE-2022-45988 Public exploit
starsoftcomm CooCare 5.304 allows local attackers to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary commands via a crafted f…
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High 7.8
In Sudo before 1.9.12p2, the sudoedit (aka -e) feature mishandles extra arguments passed in the user-provided environme…
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High 7.8CVE-2022-37706 Public exploit
enlightenment_sys in Enlightenment before 0.25.4 allows local users to gain privileges because it is setuid root, and t…
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High 7.8CVE-2022-42046 Public exploit
wfshbr64.sys and wfshbr32.sys specially crafted IOCTL allows arbitrary user to perform local privilege escalation
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High 7.8CVE-2022-41032 Public exploit
NuGet Client Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
NuGet Client Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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High 7.8CVE-2022-30526 Public exploit
A privilege escalation vulnerability was identified in the CLI command of Zyxel USG FLEX 100(W) firmware versions 4.50 …
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High 8.8CVE-2022-1227 Public exploit
Podman publishes a malicious image to public registries
A privilege escalation flaw was found in Podman. This flaw allows an attacker to publish a malicious image to a public registry. Once this image is downloaded by a potential victim, the vulnerability is triggered after a user runs the 'podman top' command. Th…
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High 8.8
User privilege escalation in MinIO
MinIO is a Kubernetes native application for cloud storage. Prior to version `RELEASE.2021-12-27T07-23-18Z`, a malicious client can hand-craft an HTTP API call that allows for updating policy for a user and gaining higher privileges. The patch in version `REL…
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High 8.8CVE-2020-13519 Public exploit
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the WinRing0x64 Driver IRP 0x9c402088 functionality of NZXT CAM 4.8.0. A…
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High 7.0
Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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High 8.8CVE-2020-23489 Public exploit
AVideo vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management
The import.json.php file before 8.9 for Avideo is vulnerable to a File Deletion vulnerability. This allows the deletion of configuration.php, which leads to certain privilege checks not being in place, and therefore a user can escalate privileges to admin.
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High 7.8
VMware Fusion (11.x before 11.5.2), VMware Remote Console for Mac (11.x and prior before 11.0.1) and Horizon Client for…
KEV Nov 3, 2021 -
High 7.8
An issue was discovered in EyesOfNetwork 5.3. The sudoers configuration is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerabilit…
KEV Nov 3, 2021 -
High 7.8
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) service improperly allow…
KEV Mar 15, 2022 -
High 7.8
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Windows Certificate Dialog when it does not properly enforce user…
KEV Apr 7, 2023 -
High 7.8
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that ws2ifsl.sys (Winsock) handles objects in memory, aka 'Wi…
KEV Nov 3, 2021 -
High 7.8CVE-2017-0358 Public exploit
ntfs-3g: Modprobe influence vulnerability via environment variables
Jann Horn of Google Project Zero discovered that NTFS-3G, a read-write NTFS driver for FUSE, does not scrub the environment before executing modprobe with elevated privileges. A local user can take advantage of this flaw for local root privilege escalation.
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High 7.0CVE-2016-10010 Public exploit
sshd in OpenSSH before 7.4, when privilege separation is not used, creates forwarded Unix-domain sockets as root, which…
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High 7.8
The Client-Server Run-time Subsystem (CSRSS) in Microsoft Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1,…
KEV Mar 28, 2022 -
High 7.8
smss.exe debugging subsystem in Windows NT and Windows 2000 does not properly authenticate programs that connect to oth…
KEV Mar 3, 2022