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
Vulnerabilities in IBM AIX and PowerVM VIOS
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges due to improper privilege management.
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High 7.0
Vulnerabilities in IBM AIX and PowerVM VIOS
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges due to improper privilege management.
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Critical 9.8
JSON Options <= 0.0.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Options Update
The JSON Options WordPress plugin through 0.0.4 does not have any capability check or nonce verification on one of its actions, which runs on every request and is available to unauthenticated users, allowing them to update arbitrary WordPress options. This ca…
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High 7.5
Improper Access Control through Scheduled Searches in Splunk AI Toolkit
In Splunk AI Toolkit versions below 6.0.0, a user that holds a role with the schedule_search capability could cause a scheduled search to load and deserialize a model file through the apply search command. The improper access control is possible because Splun…
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High 8.8
Improper Privilege Management through PDF Attachments for Email Alert Actions in Splunk Enterprise
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.4.2, 10.2.6, 10.0.9, and 9.4.14, a user that holds a role with the schedule_search capability could configure Portable Document Format (PDF) attachments in the email alert action workflow. When the email alert action run…
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High 8.8
Improper Privilege Management on the Management Port in Splunk Enterprise for Windows
In Splunk Enterprise for Windows versions below 10.4.2, 10.2.6, 10.0.9, 9.4.13, and 9.3.14, a local user with access to the Windows host could bind to the management port before Splunk Enterprise starts, intercept authentication tokens from child processes, a…
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High 8.8
Privilege Escalation through Scheduled Search Alert Action Configuration in Splunk Enterprise
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.4.2, 10.2.6, 10.0.9, and 9.4.14, a user that holds a role with the schedule_search capability could run arbitrary Search Processing Language (SPL) commands with the highest level of system privilege and read every creden…
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High 7.8
Vulnerabilities in IBM AIX and PowerVM VIOS
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a local attacker to obtain root privileges due to improper enforcement of RBAC authentication roles.
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High 8.8
Vulnerabilities in IBM AIX and PowerVM VIOS
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code due to command injection via crafted Router Advertisements.
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High 8.8
Wekan: a low-privilege board member escalates to board admin and takes over a private board via the `sort` collection-allow rule
Wekan is open source kanban built with Meteor. Prior to 9.89, the second Boards.allow({ update }) rule in server/permissions/boards.js called canUpdateBoardSort in server/lib/utils.js, which authorized any board member whenever fieldNames included sort. Becau…
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High 7.8
Vulnerabilities in IBM AIX and PowerVM VIOS
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges due to improper privilege management.
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Medium 5.3
Dell PowerPath, version 7.2 through to 8.0 SP1, contains an Improper Privilege Management vulnerability. A low privileg…
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Medium 5.5
Renovate 42.68.1 before 42.96.3 and 43.0.0 before 43.4.4 Environment Variable Exposure
Renovate versions from 42.68.1 before 42.96.3 and from 43.0.0 before 43.4.4, including the renovate/renovate Docker images, and Mend Renovate CE/EE images (renovate-ce, renovate-ee-server, renovate-ee-worker) from 13.3.0 before 13.6.0, fail to restrict enviro…
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High 7.2
Dell OpenManage Enterprise, versions prior to 4.7.0, contains an Improper Privilege Management vulnerability. A high pr…
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Medium 5.5
linuxfabrik-lib: Arbitrary root file read via live --test argument (lib.lftest) across sudoers-whitelisted plugins (LPE)
linuxfabrik-lib provides Python modules for database access, caching, shell execution, and API integrations, and Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins uses its shared testing helper across check plugins. Prior to linuxfabrik-lib 6.1.0 and Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plug…
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Medium 5.5
Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins: Arbitrary root file disclosure via unconfined --filename in logfile plugin (sudoers LPE)
Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins provides monitoring plugins for Icinga, Nagios, and related systems. Prior to version 7.0.0, check-plugins/logfile/logfile accepted a free-form --filename path and opened it as root when invoked through the shipped nagios or ici…
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High 8.8
Vulnerability in the Oracle Hyperion Financial Management product of Oracle Hyperion (component: Security). The support…
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High 8.8
Vulnerability in the Oracle Virtual Directory product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: Virtual Directory Server)…
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Medium 5.8
Submariner-operator: operator clusterrole grants cluster-wide create/update on all configmaps
A flaw was found in the Submariner operator. This vulnerability allows for the exposure of a long-lived broker service account (SA) bearer token within the Submariner Custom Resource (CR) specification. An attacker with access to the cluster's etcd database o…
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High 8.7
Managed-serviceaccount: managed-serviceaccount: hub addon-manager clusterrole grants cluster-wide secret read/write and csr approval
A flaw was found in managed-serviceaccount. A compromised addon-manager pod, due to its ClusterRole granting excessive permissions, can read any secret across all namespaces. Additionally, it can approve arbitrary Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs), which co…
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High 7.0
CodeWhale before 0.8.64 Privilege Escalation via exec_shell_interact
CodeWhale versions >= 0.3.10 and < 0.8.64 (published as deepseek-tui >= 0.3.10 and < 0.8.41 on npm and 0.3.10 through 0.8.41 on crates.io, and as codewhale / codewhale-tui >= 0.8.41 and < 0.8.64) contain a vulnerability in the exec_shell_interact (alias exec_…
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Critical 9.8
Privilege escalation in the Enterprise Policies component
Privilege escalation in the Enterprise Policies component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, and Thunderbird 153.1.
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High 8.8
Privilege escalation in the Request Handling component
Privilege escalation in the Request Handling component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, and Thunderbird 153.1.
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High 8.8
Privilege escalation in the Downloads API component
Privilege escalation in the Downloads API component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, and Thunderbird 153.1.
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High 8.8
Privilege escalation in the Application Update component
Privilege escalation in the Application Update component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Thunderbird 154, Firefox ESR 153.2, and Thunderbird 153.2.
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High 8.8
Privilege escalation in the Shell Integration component
Privilege escalation in the Shell Integration component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 140.14, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, Thunderbird 140.14, and Thunderbird 153.1.
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High 8.8
Privilege escalation in the Networking: Cookies component
Privilege escalation in the Networking: Cookies component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 140.14, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, Thunderbird 140.14, and Thunderbird 153.1.
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High 8.8
Privilege escalation in the Remote Settings Client component
Privilege escalation in the Remote Settings Client component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 115.39, Firefox ESR 140.14, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, Thunderbird 140.14, and Thunderbird 153.1.
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High 8.8
Privilege escalation in the Graphics: CanvasWebGL component
Privilege escalation in the Graphics: CanvasWebGL component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 140.14, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, Thunderbird 140.14, and Thunderbird 153.1.
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High 8.8CVE-2026-74939 Public exploit
Privilege escalation in the DOM: Navigation component
Privilege escalation in the DOM: Navigation component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 115.39, Firefox ESR 140.14, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, Thunderbird 140.14, and Thunderbird 153.1.
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High 8.8
Privilege escalation in the DOM: Networking component
Privilege escalation in the DOM: Networking component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 115.39, Firefox ESR 140.14, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, Thunderbird 140.14, and Thunderbird 153.1.
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Critical 9.9
ArcadeDB before 26.8.1 Authentication Bypass via Async Command
ArcadeDB server (com.arcadedb:arcadedb-server) in versions 26.7.3 and earlier fails to propagate the authenticated principal to asynchronous command worker threads. When an HTTP command is submitted with awaitResponse:false, it executes on an async worker who…
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Medium 6.3
ArcadeDB 26.4.2 before 26.8.1 Authorization Bypass via set_server_setting
ArcadeDB versions 26.4.2 through 26.7.3 contain an authorization bypass vulnerability in the set_server_setting MCP server-level tool. SetServerSettingTool.execute() gates only on the global allowAdmin flag and never checks the caller's role, so in an MCP dep…
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Critical 9.9
ArcadeDB before 26.8.1 Privilege Escalation via gRPC Transaction
ArcadeDB before 26.8.1 fails to bind the authenticated principal on the gRPC transaction executor thread in beginTransaction, allowing authenticated readers to execute JavaScript commands without scripting authorization checks. Attackers can execute executeCo…
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Critical 9.1
Grav before 2.0.14 Privilege Escalation via Group Access Field
Grav before 2.0.14 fails to guard the access field in the core group blueprint with the required security@: admin.super restriction. A delegated admin.users operator can save a group with access[admin][super]=true to escalate to super-admin, gaining scheduler…
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High 8.0
Dokploy: Invitation Role Escalation Allows Organization Takeover
Dokploy is a free, self-hostable Platform as a Service (PaaS). Prior to 0.29.6, Dokploy's organization.inviteMember tRPC procedure in apps/dokploy/server/api/routers/organization.ts allows a user with member:create permission to invite an account with the own…
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High 8.8
SkyPilot Authentication Bypass via Service Account Role Escalation
SkyPilot fails to validate that authenticated users are entitled to grant administrator roles when updating service account permissions. Attackers can create a service account, escalate it to administrator role, and authenticate with its bearer token to gain …
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High 8.8
Search-v2-operator: search-v2-operator: cluster-wide impersonate on users/groups shared across 4 pods grants hub system:masters
A flaw was found in search-v2-operator. This component's `search-serviceaccount` has overly broad permissions, allowing it to impersonate users and groups across the entire cluster. If an attacker gains access to any of the pods running under this service acc…
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Medium 4.3
Webkul Bagisto Backend Customer Behavior Data Endpoint customers privileges management
A vulnerability was identified in Webkul Bagisto up to 2.4.4. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /admin/customers of the component Backend Customer Behavior Data Endpoint. Such manipulation of the argument ID leads to improper privilege manag…
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Critical 9.8
An issue in GAPTEQ Designer v.3.5 allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via the Company Manger role.