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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Medium 6.5
Incorrect libcap_net limitation list manipulation
In the case of the cap_net service, when a key present in the old limit was omitted from the new limit, the missing key was treated as "allow any" instead of being rejected. In certain scenarios, an application that had previously restricted a subset of netwo…
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Medium 6.0
Improper privilege management in the KVM key download component could allow an attacker to swap tokens and download sen…
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Medium 6.5
Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets <= 6.5.13 - Authenticated (Author+) Limited Privilege Escalation via register_user
The Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 6.5.13. This is due to insufficient role validation in the 'register_user' function, wh…
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Medium 6.7
Dell ECS versions 3.8.1.0 through 3.8.1.7 and Dell ObjectScale versions prior to 4.3.0.0, contains an improper privileg…
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Medium 5.5
People: Privilege Escalation via Missing Role Ceiling in Mail Domain Invitation
People is an application to handle users and teams, and distribute permissions across La Suite. Prior to version 1.25.0, a user holding the Administrator role on a mail domain could send a crafted invitation request to promote any existing user (including use…
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Medium 6.3
Inappropriate implementation in Canvas in Google Chrome prior to 148.0.7778.96 allowed a remote attacker to bypass same…
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Medium 6.3
Inappropriate implementation in ORB in Google Chrome prior to 148.0.7778.96 allowed a remote attacker to bypass site is…
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Medium 5.2
Local privilege escalation vulnerability in ZTE PROCESS Guard service of the cloud computer client
There is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the ZTE PROCESS Guard service of the cloud computer client, which may allow local arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation and path traversal bypass.
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Medium 5.0
runZero Platform dashboard configuration exposure
An issue that could allow a dashboard configuration to be viewed from outside of the authorized organization scope has been resolved. This is an instance of CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management, and has an estimated CVSS score of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:…
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Medium 4.8
Multiple Vulnerabilities in IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager
IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.2, 4.2.1, 5.0, and 5.1 enables privilege escalation, allowing unauthorized users to perform administrative operations after being demoted. Attackers could access sensitive data, modify system configurations, or…
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Medium 6.2
Missing large page handling in pmap_pkru_update_range()
In order to apply a particular protection key to an address range, the kernel must update the corresponding page table entries. The subroutine which handled this failed to take into account the presence of 1GB largepage mappings created using the shm_create_l…
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Medium 4.4
OpenClaw < 2026.3.31 - Environment Variable Override via Host Exec Policy
OpenClaw before 2026.3.31 contains an environment variable override vulnerability in host exec policy that fails to properly enforce proxy, TLS, Docker, and Git TLS controls. Attackers can bypass security controls by overriding environment variables to circum…
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Medium 5.4
OpenClaw < 2026.4.2 - Authorization Bypass in Session Termination Endpoint
OpenClaw before 2026.4.2 fails to enforce write scopes on the POST /sessions/:sessionKey/kill endpoint in identity-bearing HTTP modes. Read-scoped callers can terminate running subagent sessions by sending requests to this endpoint, bypassing authorization co…
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Medium 6.3
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain appliances, versions 7.7.1.0 through 8.6.0.0 and version 8.7.0.0, LTS2025 release version…
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Medium 6.5
In OpenXiangShan NEMU, insufficient Smstateen permission enforcement allows lower-privileged code to access IMSIC state…
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Medium 5.0
ZTE Red Magic 11 Pro (NX809J) contains a vulnerability that allows non-privileged applications to trigger sensitive operations.
Red Magic 11 Pro (NX809J) contains a vulnerability that allows non-privileged applications to trigger sensitive operations. The vulnerability stems from the lack of validation for applications accessing the service interface. Exploiting this vulnerability, an…
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Medium 5.5CVE-2025-70795 Public exploit
STProcessMonitor 11.11.4.0, part of the Safetica Application suite, allows an admin-privileged user to send crafted IOC…
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Medium 5.5
Universal Plug and Play (upnp.dll) Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Universal Plug and Play (upnp.dll) allows an authorized attacker to disclose information locally.
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Medium 5.5
Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service Denial of Service Vulnerability
Improper privilege management in Microsoft Windows allows an authorized attacker to deny service locally.
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Medium 6.5
OpenClaw < 2026.3.24 - Privilege Escalation via chat.send to Allowlist Persistence
OpenClaw before 2026.3.24 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability where the /allowlist command fails to re-validate gateway client scopes for internal callers, allowing operator.write-scoped clients to mutate channel authorization policy. Attackers can …
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Medium 6.8
Aiven Operator has cross-namespace secret exfiltration via ClickhouseUser connInfoSecretSource
Aiven Operator allows you to provision and manage Aiven Services from your Kubernetes cluster. From 0.31.0 to before 0.37.0, a developer with create permission on ClickhouseUser CRDs in their own namespace can exfiltrate secrets from any other namespace — pro…
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Medium 6.4
Pi-hole has a Local Privilege Escalation (post-compromise, pihole -> root).
Pi-hole is a Linux network-level advertisement and Internet tracker blocking application. Version 6.4 has a local privilege-escalation vulnerability allows code execution as root from the low-privilege pihole account. Important context: the pihole account use…
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Medium 4.7
util-linux: TOCTOU Race Condition in util-linux mount(8) - Loop Device Setup
util-linux is a random collection of Linux utilities. Prior to version 2.41.4, a TOCTOU (Time-of-Check-Time-of-Use) vulnerability has been identified in the SUID binary /usr/bin/mount from util-linux. The mount binary, when setting up loop devices, validates …
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Medium 6.3
himmelblau: NSS fake-primary group lookup reintroduces name collision risk
Himmelblau is an interoperability suite for Microsoft Azure Entra ID and Intune. From versions 2.0.0-alpha to before 2.3.9 and 3.0.0-alpha to before 3.1.1, there is a conditional local privilege escalation vulnerability in an edge-case naming collision. Only …
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Medium 6.3
Discourse: Vulnerability in discourse-subscriptions plugin allowing users to self-grant to higher tier subscriptions
Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. From versions 2026.1.0-latest to before 2026.1.3, 2026.2.0-latest to before 2026.2.2, and 2026.3.0-latest to before 2026.3.0, a user may be able to purchase a lower tier subscription but grant themselves the be…
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Medium 6.3
ClearanceKit: Managed and user-defined policy rules not enforced between opfilter start and first policy modification
ClearanceKit intercepts file-system access events on macOS and enforces per-process access policies. Prior to version 4.2.14, two related startup defects created a window during which only the single compile-time baseline rule was enforced by opfilter. All ma…
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Medium 4.0
A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.7.5, macOS Sono…
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Medium 6.2
A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in Xcode 26.4. An app may be able t…
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Medium 6.5
Vikunja Desktop: Any frontend XSS escalates to Remote Code Execution due to nodeIntegration
Vikunja is an open-source self-hosted task management platform. Starting in version 0.21.0 and prior to version 2.2.0, the Vikunja Desktop Electron wrapper enables `nodeIntegration` in the renderer process without `contextIsolation` or `sandbox`. This means a…
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Medium 5.5
systemd: Local unprivileged user can trigger an assert
systemd, a system and service manager, (as PID 1) hits an assert and freezes execution when an unprivileged IPC API call is made with spurious data. On version v249 and older the effect is not an assert, but stack overwriting, with the attacker controlled con…
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Medium 6.5
App Builder – Create Native Android & iOS Apps On The Flight <= 5.5.10 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via 'role' Parameter
The App Builder – Create Native Android & iOS Apps On The Flight plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 5.5.10. This is due to the `verify_role()` function in `AuthTrails.php` explicitly whitelisting t…
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Medium 5.9
OpenClaw < 2026.3.2 - Missing Owner Flag Validation in Discord Voice Transcript Handler
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.3.2 fail to pass the senderIsOwner flag when processing Discord voice transcripts in agentCommand, causing the flag to default to true. Non-owner voice participants can exploit this omission to access owner-only tools including…
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Medium 5.5
During an internal security assessment, a potential vulnerability was discovered in Lenovo PC Manager that could allow …
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Medium 4.7
StudioCMS: REST API Missing Rank Check Allows Admin to Create Peer Admin Accounts
StudioCMS is a server-side-rendered, Astro native, headless content management system. Prior to 0.4.3, the REST API createUser endpoint uses string-based rank checks that only block creating owner accounts, while the Dashboard API uses indexOf-based rank comp…
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Medium 6.7
Dell Alienware Command Center (AWCC), versions prior to 6.12.24.0, contain an Improper Privilege Management vulnerabili…
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Medium 6.0
Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Command Injection Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the lockdown mechanism of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform arbitrary commands as root. This vulnerability is due to insufficient restrictions on remediation modul…
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Medium —
OpenClaw's owner-only gateway tool access checks were incomplete in specific authenticated DM flows
## Summary In authenticated non-owner DM sessions, a narrow tool-invocation path could reach broader-than-intended owner-only gateway actions. ## Impact This requires an authenticated non-owner sender in a DM session and a specific tool invocation path. No un…
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Medium 6.2
VMware Aria Operations privilege escalation vulnerability
VMware Aria Operations contains a privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with privileges in vCenter to access Aria Operations may leverage this vulnerability to obtain administrative access in VMware Aria Operations. To remediate CVE-2026-22721…
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Medium 6.3
JingDong JD Cloud Box AX6600 jdcapp_rpc controlDevice get_status privileges management
A vulnerability was identified in JingDong JD Cloud Box AX6600 up to 4.5.1.r4533. Affected is the function set_stcreenen_deabled_status/get_status of the file /f/service/controlDevice of the component jdcapp_rpc. The manipulation leads to Remote Privilege Esc…
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Medium 6.3
JingDong JD Cloud Box AX6600 jdcweb_rpc jdcapi cast_streen privileges management
A vulnerability was determined in JingDong JD Cloud Box AX6600 up to 4.5.1.r4533. This impacts the function cast_streen of the file /jdcapi of the component jdcweb_rpc. Executing a manipulation of the argument File can lead to Remote Privilege Escalation. The…