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 7.8
Windows Remote Desktop Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Improper privilege management in Windows Remote Desktop allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
KEV Feb 10, 2026 -
High 7.8
Windows Error Reporting Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Error Reporting Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
KEV Jun 13, 2024 -
High 8.8
In onCreate of WindowState.java, there is a possible way to launch a background activity due to a logic error in the co…
KEV Sep 13, 2023 -
High 8.8
MinIO is vulnerable to privilege escalation on Linux/MacOS
Minio is a Multi-Cloud Object Storage framework. Prior to RELEASE.2023-03-20T20-16-18Z, an attacker can use crafted requests to bypass metadata bucket name checking and put an object into any bucket while processing `PostPolicyBucket`. To carry out this attac…
KEV Sep 19, 2023 -
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 7.8
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