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 7.2
PHOENIX CONTACT: Improper Privilege Management in WP 6xxx Web panels
In PHOENIX CONTACTs WP 6xxx series web panels in versions prior to 4.0.10 the SNMP daemon is running with root privileges allowing a remote attacker with knowledge of the SNMPv2 r/w community string to execute system commands as root.
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High 8.8
Real Estate Manager <= 7.2 - Arbitrary Usermeta Update to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation
The Real Estate Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 7.2 due to insufficient restriction on the 'rem_save_profile_front' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal…
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Medium 5.5
Cryptomator vulnerable to Local Elevation of Privileges
Cryptomator encrypts data being stored on cloud infrastructure. The MSI installer provided on the homepage for Cryptomator version 1.9.2 allows local privilege escalation for low privileged users, via the `repair` function. The problem occurs as the repair fu…
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Medium 6.6
WP Ultimate CSV Importer <= 7.9.8 - Arbitrary Usermeta Update to Authenticated (Author+) Privilege Escalation
The WP Ultimate CSV Importer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 7.9.8 due to insufficient restriction on the 'get_header_values' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minim…
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Medium 4.4
A vulnerability in the privilege management functionality of all Cisco BroadWorks server types could allow an authentic…
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High 7.8
Privilege issues in multiple commands
Through manipulation of passwords or other variables, using commands such as portcfgupload, configupload, license, myid, a non-privileged user could obtain root privileges in Brocade Fabric OS versions before Brocade Fabric OS v9.1.1c and v9.2.0.
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Medium 6.1
Apptainer's ineffective privileges drop when requesting container network
Apptainer is an open source container platform. Version 1.2.0-rc.2 introduced an ineffective privilege drop when requesting container network setup, therefore subsequent functions are called with root privileges, the attack surface is rather limited for users…
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High 7.0
Cryptomator's MSI installer allows local privilege escalation
Cryptomator is data encryption software for users who store their files in the cloud. Prior to version 1.9.2, the MSI installer provided on the homepage allows local privilege escalation (LPE) for low privileged users, if already installed. The problem occurs…
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Medium 4.1
Tickets can be moved without permissions
An improper privilege check in the OTRS ticket move action in the agent interface allows any as agent authenticated attacker to to perform a move of an ticket without the needed permission. This issue affects OTRS: from 8.0.X before 8.0.35.
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Critical 9.1
Privilege Escalation in kubepi
KubePi is an opensource kubernetes management panel. A normal user has permission to create/update users, they can become admin by editing the `isadmin` value in the request. As a result any user may take administrative control of KubePi. This issue has been …
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Medium 6.5
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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High 8.0
Privilege Escalation to root administrator (nsroot)
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Critical 9.1CVE-2023-30799 Public exploit
MikroTik RouterOS Administrator Privilege Escalation
MikroTik RouterOS stable before 6.49.7 and long-term through 6.48.6 are vulnerable to a privilege escalation issue. A remote and authenticated attacker can escalate privileges from admin to super-admin on the Winbox or HTTP interface. The attacker can abuse t…
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High 7.8
Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Device Driver Interface). The supported versi…
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High 8.4
IBM i privilege escalation
IBM Performance Tools for i 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5 contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with command line access to the host operating system can elevate privileges to gain all object access to the host operating system. IBM …
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High 8.4
IBM i privilege escalation
The IBM i 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5 product Facsimile Support for i contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with command line access to the host operating system can elevate privileges to gain root access to the host operating syst…
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High 7.8
RazerCentralSerivce Unsafe Named Pipe Permission Escalation of Privilege Vulnerability
Improper Privilege Control in RazerCentralSerivce Named Pipe in Razer RazerCentral <=7.11.0.558 on Windows allows a malicious actor with local access to gain SYSTEM privilege via communicating with the named pipe as a low-privilege user and calling "AddModule…
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High 7.8
RazerCentralService Unsafe Deserialization Escalation of Privilege
Improper Privilege Control in RazerCentralSerivce Named Pipe in Razer RazerCentral <=7.11.0.558 on Windows allows a malicious actor with local access to gain SYSTEM privilege via communicating with the named pipe as a low-privilege user and triggering an inse…
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High 7.8
A vulnerability has been discovered in the Citrix Secure Access client for Windows which, if exploited, could allow an …
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High 8.8CVE-2023-30765 Public exploit
Delta Electronics InfraSuite Device Master Improper Access Control
Delta Electronics InfraSuite Device Master versions prior to 1.0.7 contain improper access controls that could allow an attacker to alter privilege management configurations, resulting in privilege escalation.
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High 7.8
Local Privilege Escalation to root in OSNEXUS QuantaStor before 6.0.0.355
Local users are able to execute scripts under root privileges. POC On the local host run the following command: curl 'localhost:8154/qstor/qs_upgrade.py?taskId=1&a=;`whoami`'
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Unscored —
Vulnerability of inappropriate permission control in Nearby. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect s…
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Unscored —
Use After Free (UAF) vulnerability in the uinput module.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to kerne…
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High 8.2
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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Medium 6.1
Improper privilege management vulnerability in CC Mode prior to SMR Jun-2023 Release 1 allows physical attackers to man…
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Low 2.4
Improper Knox ID validation logic in notification framework prior to SMR Jun-2023 Release 1 allows local attackers to r…
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Critical 10.0
XWiki Platform's Mail.MailConfig can be edited by any user with edit rights
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Starting in version 11.8-rc-1 and prior to versions 14.4.8, 14.10.6, and 15.2, `Mail.MailConfig` can be edited by any logged-in user by default. Consequently, they can change the mail obfuscation configuration and vi…
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High 8.8
Apache StreamPipes: Privilege escalation through non-admin user
A REST interface in Apache StreamPipes (versions 0.69.0 to 0.91.0) was not properly restricted to admin-only access. This allowed a non-admin user with valid login credentials to elevate privileges beyond the initially assigned roles. The issue is resolved by…
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High 7.8
Local privilege escalation in ESET products for Linux and MacOS
During internal security analysis, a local privilege escalation vulnerability has been identified. On a machine with the affected ESET product installed, it was possible for a user with lower privileges due to improper privilege management to trigger actions …
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Medium 5.4
Funnel Builder <= 1.3.0 - Arbitrary Plugin Activation
The Funnel Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check on the activate_plugin function in versions up to, and including, 1.3.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers to activate any plugin …
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High 8.8
ReviewX <= 1.6.13 - Arbitrary Usermeta Update to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation
The ReviewX plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 1.6.13 due to insufficient restriction on the 'rx_set_screen_options' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal permissio…
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High 7.8
The grc-policy-propagator allows security escalation within the cluster. The propagator allows policies which contain s…
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High 7.8
Local Privilege Escalation via the ‘streamfwd’ program in Splunk App for Stream
In Splunk App for Stream versions below 8.1.1, a low-privileged user could use a vulnerability in the streamfwd process within the Splunk App for Stream to escalate their privileges on the machine that runs the Splunk Enterprise instance, up to and including …
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Critical 9.9
Rancher vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via manipulation of Secrets
An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allowed standard users to leverage their existing permissions to manipulate Kubernetes secrets in the local cluster, resulting in the secret being deleted, but their read-level permissions to the …
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High 8.0
Rancher's Azure AD permission changes are not reflected on active sessions
A Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE Rancher causes permission changes in Azure AD not to be reflected to users while they are logged in the Rancher UI. This would cause the users to retain their previous permissions in Rancher, even if they …
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High 8.6
Deno missing "--allow-net" permission check for built-in Node modules
Deno is a runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript. In deno 1.34.0 and deno_runtime 0.114.0, outbound HTTP requests made using the built-in `node:http` or `node:https` modules are incorrectly not checked against the network permission allow list (`--allow-net`).…
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High 8.8
Excessive permissions for ckan user
CKAN is an open-source data management system for powering data hubs and data portals. Prior to versions 2.9.9 and 2.10.1, the `ckan` user (equivalent to www-data) owned code and configuration files in the docker container and the `ckan` user had the permissi…
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Medium 6.7
The privilege escalation vulnerability in the Zyxel GS1900-8 firmware version V2.70(AAHH.3) and the GS1900-8HP firmware…
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High 7.8
Apache Cassandra: Privilege escalation when enabling FQL/Audit logs
Privilege escalation when enabling FQL/Audit logs allows user with JMX access to run arbitrary commands as the user running Apache Cassandra This issue affects Apache Cassandra: from 4.0.0 through 4.0.9, from 4.1.0 through 4.1.1. WORKAROUND The vulnerability …
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Critical 9.8
Apache InLong: Privilege escalation vulnerability for InLong
Improper Privilege Management Vulnerabilities in Apache Software Foundation Apache InLong.This issue affects Apache InLong: from 1.2.0 through 1.6.0. When the attacker has access to a valid (but unprivileged) account, the exploit can be executed using Burp S…