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 9.8
Infoblox NIOS through 8.6.4 executes with more privileges than required.
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Medium 5.3
An unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability affects HCL MyCloud
HCL MyCloud is affected by Improper Access Control - an unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability which may lead to information disclosure and potential for Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) and Denial of Service(DOS) attacks from unauthenticated us…
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High 8.8CVE-2024-12284 EPSS 13%
Authenticated privilege escalation
Authenticated privilege escalation in NetScaler Console and NetScaler Agent allows.
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High 7.8
Symantec Diagnostic Tool (SymDiag), prior to 3.0.79, may be susceptible to a Privilege Escalation vulnerability.
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High 8.8CVE-2024-57778 Public exploit
An issue in Orbe ONetView Roeador Onet-1200 Orbe 1680210096 allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via the ser…
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High 7.8
CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management vulnerability exists for two services (of which one managing audit trail data an…
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Critical 9.8
Easy!Appointments Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts
An issue in Alex Tselegidis EasyAppointments v.1.5.0 allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via the index.php file.
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Critical 9.8
MaysWind ezBookkeeping has Improper Privilege Management
An issue in MaysWind ezBookkeeping 0.7.0 allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via the token component.
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High 7.3
A DLL hijacking vulnerability in the AMD Ryzen™ Master Utility could allow an attacker to achieve privilege escalation,…
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Medium 6.3
Ash Authentication has flawed token revocation checking logic in actions generated by `mix ash_authentication.install`
Ash Authentication is an authentication framework for Elixir applications. Applications which have been bootstrapped by the igniter installer present since AshAuthentication v4.1.0 and who have used the magic link strategy _or_ are manually revoking tokens ar…
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Critical 9.8
WP Foodbakery <= 4.7 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation in foodbakery_registration_validation
The WP Foodbakery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.7. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting what user meta can be updated during profile registration. This makes it possible for un…
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Low 3.8CVE-2024-51324 Public exploit
An issue in the BdApiUtil driver of Baidu Antivirus v5.2.3.116083 allows attackers to terminate arbitrary process via e…
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High 8.8
The Platform component of Mitel OpenScape 4000 and OpenScape 4000 Manager through V10 R1.54.1 and V11 through R0.22.1 c…
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High 8.5
Local Privilege Escalation in MobSF
Mobile Security Framework (MobSF) is an automated, all-in-one mobile application (Android/iOS/Windows) pen-testing, malware analysis and security assessment framework. A local user with minimal privileges is able to make use of an access token for materials f…
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High 7.8CVE-2024-11467 Public exploit
Omnissa Horizon Client for macOS contains a Local privilege escalation (LPE) Vulnerability due to a logic flaw. Success…
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Medium 4.6
Ability to view Agent list with no privilege access in wazuh-dashboard
Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. It is capable of protecting workloads across on-premises, virtualized, containerized, and cloud-based environments. This vulnerability occurs when the system has wea…
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High 8.8
WooCommerce Customers Manager <= 31.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation
The WooCommerce Customers Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the ajax_assign_new_roles() function in all versions up to, and including, 31.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attacke…
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Medium 4.3
VMware Aria Operations for Logs broken access control vulnerability (CVE-2025-22220)
VMware Aria Operations for Logs contains a privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges and network access to Aria Operations for Logs API may be able to perform certain operations in the context of an admin user.
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Medium 5.5
A vulnerability in the NetExtender Windows client log export function allows unauthorized access to sensitive Windows s…
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High 7.8
Wondershare Dr.Fone Privilege Scalation Vulnerability
Privilege escalation vulnerability has been found in Wondershare Dr.Fone version 13.5.21. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to escalate privileges by replacing the binary ‘C:\ProgramData\Wondershare\wsServices\ElevationService.exe’ with a malicious b…
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High 7.5
Improper Preservation of Permissions in github.com/cloudflare/cfrpki/cmd/octorpki
When copying files with rsync, octorpki uses the "-a" flag 0, which forces rsync to copy binaries with the suid bit set as root. Since the provided service definition defaults to root ( https://github.com/cloudflare/cfrpki/blob/master/package/octorpki.service…
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Low 3.5
Improper check of permissions in Generic Interface
An improper privilege management vulnerability in OTRS Generic Interface module allows change of the Ticket status even if the user only has ro permissions. This issue affects: * OTRS 7.0.X * OTRS 8.0.X * OTRS 2023.X * OTRS 2024.X * ((OTRS)) Community Edition…
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Medium 5.0
Directus privilege escalation vulnerability using Share feature
Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to version 11.2.0, when sharing an item, a typical user can specify an arbitrary role. It allows the user to use a higher-privileged role to see fields that otherwise the u…
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Medium 6.1CVE-2025-0651 Public exploit
File symlink abuse might lead to deleting files belonging to SYSTEM user
Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Cloudflare WARP on Windows allows File Manipulation. User with a low system privileges can create a set of symlinks inside the C:\ProgramData\Cloudflare\warp-diag-partials folder. After triggering the 'Reset all…
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High 8.6
Podman: buildah: container breakout by using --jobs=2 and a race condition when building a malicious containerfile
A vulnerability was found in `podman build` and `buildah.` This issue occurs in a container breakout by using --jobs=2 and a race condition when building a malicious Containerfile. SELinux might mitigate it, but even with SELinux on, it still allows the enume…
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High 7.8
In onCreate of NotificationAccessConfirmationActivity.java , there is a possible way to hide an app with notification a…
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High 7.8CVE-2018-9375 Public exploit
In multiple functions of UserDictionaryProvider.java, there is a possible way to add and delete words in the user dicti…
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High 7.3
IdP group membership revocation ignored in zot
zot is a production-ready vendor-neutral OCI image registry. The group data stored for users in the boltdb database (meta.db) is an append-list so group revocations/removals are ignored in the API. SetUserGroups is alled on login, but instead of replacing the…
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High 8.7
OpenObserve Improper Authorization Allows Admin User to Remove Root User
OpenObserve is a cloud-native observability platform. A vulnerability in the user management endpoint `/api/{org_id}/users/{email_id}` allows an "Admin" role user to remove a "Root" user from the organization. This violates the intended privilege hierarchy, e…
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Critical 9.8
Post Grid and Gutenberg Blocks 2.2.85 - 2.3.3 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
The Post Grid and Gutenberg Blocks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions 2.2.85 to 2.3.3. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting what user meta can be updated during profile registration. This makes it possible for…
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High 7.8
Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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High 7.5
Windows Web Threat Defense User Service Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Windows Web Threat Defense User Service Information Disclosure Vulnerability
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High 7.8
Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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High 8.8
An improper privilege management vulnerability in the web management interface of the Zyxel WBE530 firmware versions th…
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High 8.4
Insufficient Hardened Runtime or Library Validation signing in Bitdefender Virus Scanner for macOS
A vulnerability in the BitdefenderVirusScanner binary as used in Bitdefender Virus Scanner for MacOS may allow .dynamic library injection (DYLD injection) without being blocked by AppleMobileFileIntegrity (AMFI). This issue is caused by the absence of Hardene…
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High 7.8
A vulnerability in the Gen7 SonicOS Cloud platform NSv, allows a remote authenticated local low-privileged attacker to …
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High 7.8
Vulnerability of improper permission control in the window management module Impact: Successful exploitation of this vu…
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Medium 6.4
Privilege escalation for users who hold the “splunk_app_soar“ role in the Splunk App for SOAR
In versions 1.0.67 and lower of the Splunk App for SOAR, the Splunk documentation for that app recommended adding the `admin_all_objects` capability to the `splunk_app_soar` role. This addition could lead to improper access control for a low-privileged user t…
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High 7.8
A security agent link following vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One could allow a local attacker to escalate privileg…
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High 7.8
An engine link following vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on a…