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 8.8
API Privilege Escalation in alextselegidis/easyappointments
API Privilege Escalation in GitHub repository alextselegidis/easyappointments prior to 1.5.0. Full system takeover.
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Medium 6.7
HCL BigFix Platform Console is affected by a Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
The BigFix Console installer is created with InstallShield, which was affected by CVE-2021-41526, a vulnerability that could allow a local user to perform a privilege escalation. This vulnerability was resolved by updating to an InstallShield version with the…
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Medium 6.7
HCL BigFix Platform Client is affected by a Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
The BigFix Client installer is created with InstallShield, which was affected by CVE-2021-41526, a vulnerability that could allow a local user to perform a privilege escalation. This vulnerability was resolved by updating to an InstallShield version with the …
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Medium 6.7
HCL BigFix Platform Server API is affected by Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
The BigFix Server API installer is created with InstallShield, which was affected by CVE-2021-41526, a vulnerability that could allow a local user to perform a privilege escalation. This vulnerability was resolved by updating to an InstallShield version with …
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High 7.1
Privilege Escalation in argo-workflows
Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. In affected versions an attacker can create a workflow which produces a HTML artifact containing an HTML file that contains a script which uses XH…
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Medium 4.3
On F5 BIG-IP 16.1.x versions prior to 16.1.2.2, 15.1.x versions prior to 15.1.5.1, and 14.1.x versions prior to 14.1.4.…
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Medium 5.4
Write access to the Catalog for any user when restricted-admin role is enabled
A Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allows write access to the Catalog for any user when restricted-admin role is enabled. This issue affects: SUSE Rancher Rancher versions prior to 2.5.13; Rancher versions prior to 2.6.4.
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High 7.2
Privilege escalation for users with create/update permissions in Global Roles
A Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allows users with the restricted-admin role to escalate to full admin. This issue affects: SUSE Rancher Rancher versions prior to 2.5.13; Rancher versions prior to 2.6.4.
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High 8.8
Metasys privilege management
Under certain circumstances improper privilege management in Metasys ADS/ADX/OAS servers versions 10 and 11 could allow an authenticated user to elevate their privileges to administrator.
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High 8.8CVE-2022-1227 Public exploit
Podman publishes a malicious image to public registries
A privilege escalation flaw was found in Podman. This flaw allows an attacker to publish a malicious image to a public registry. Once this image is downloaded by a potential victim, the vulnerability is triggered after a user runs the 'podman top' command. Th…
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High 7.8
Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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High 7.3
Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system as the root user. The attacker must be authenticated on the affected system as a low-priv…
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Medium 6.7
B. Braun SpaceCom, Battery Pack SP with Wi-Fi, and Data module compactplus
A vulnerability in the configuration import mechanism of the B. Braun Melsungen AG SpaceCom Version L81/U61 and earlier, and the Data module compactplus Versions A10 and A11 allows attackers with command line access to the underlying Linux system to escalate …
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High 7.8
JIMS: Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability via repair functionality
An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in the Windows Installer framework used in the Juniper Networks Juniper Identity Management Service (JIMS) allows an unprivileged user to trigger a repair operation. Running a repair operation, in turn, will trig…
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High 7.8
Improper Privilege Management in McAfee Agent for Windows
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in MA for Windows prior to 5.7.6 allows a local low privileged user to gain system privileges through running the repair functionality. Temporary file actions were performed on the local user's %TEMP% directory with …
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Medium 4.3
Restricted custom admin role can bypass the restrictions and view the server logs and server config.json file contents
One of the API in Mattermost version 6.4.1 and earlier fails to properly protect the permissions, which allows the authenticated members with restricted custom admin role to bypass the restrictions and view the server logs and server config.json file contents.
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High 8.8
Improper Privilege Management in MinIO
MinIO is a High Performance Object Storage released under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. A security issue was found where an non-admin user is able to create service accounts for root or other admin users and then is able to assume their access polic…
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High 8.0
FGAC API Key privilege escalation in Grafana
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. When fine-grained access control is enabled and a client uses Grafana API Key to make requests, the permissions for that API Key are cached for 30 seconds for the given organization. Because…
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Medium 4.4
Improper access control vulnerability in SamsungRecovery prior to version 8.1.43.0 allows local attckers to delete arbi…
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High 7.3
A local privilege escalation vulnerability caused by incorrect permission assignment in some directories of the Zyxel A…
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Critical 9.8
aEnrich a+HRD - Broken Access Control
aEnrich a+HRD has inadequate privilege restrictions, an unauthenticated remote attacker can use the API function to upload and execute malicious scripts to control the system or disrupt service.
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Medium 5.3
ISS BlackICE PC Protection Cross Site Scripting Detection privileges management
A vulnerability was found in ISS BlackICE PC Protection and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the component Cross Site Scripting Detection. The manipulation as part of POST/PUT/DELETE/OPTIONS Request leads to privilege escalation. The attack m…
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Critical 10.0
Sandbox bypass leading to arbitrary code execution in Deno
Deno is a runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript. The versions of Deno between release 1.18.0 and 1.20.2 (inclusive) are vulnerable to an attack where a malicious actor controlling the code executed in a Deno runtime could bypass all permission checks and exec…
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Critical 9.8
Improper Privilege Management in Open Web Analytics
Open Web Analytics (OWA) before 1.7.4 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to obtain sensitive user information, which can be used to gain admin privileges by leveraging cache hashes. This occurs because files generated with '<?php (instead of the intend…
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Unscored —
The devtools API in Whale browser before 3.12.129.18 allowed extension developers to inject arbitrary JavaScript into t…
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High 8.8
Low privilege user is able to exploit the service and gain SYSTEM privileges in UltraVNC server
UltraVNC is a free and open source remote pc access software. A vulnerability has been found in versions prior to 1.3.8.0 in which the DSM plugin module, which allows a local authenticated user to achieve local privilege escalation (LPE) on a vulnerable syste…
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High 7.9
Improper access control vulnerability in dynamic receiver in ApkInstaller prior to SMR MAR-2022 Release allows unauthor…
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Unscored —
A vulnerability has been identified in SINUMERIK MC (All versions < V1.15 SP1), SINUMERIK ONE (All versions < V6.15 SP1…
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High 7.3
A vulnerability has been identified in SINEC NMS (All versions >= V1.0.3 < V2.0), SINEC NMS (All versions < V1.0.3), SI…
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Unscored —
MasterStudy LMS < 2.7.6 - Unauthenticated Admin Account Creation
The MasterStudy LMS WordPress plugin before 2.7.6 does to validate some parameters given when registering a new account, allowing unauthenticated users to register as an admin
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Medium 4.3
Elasticsearch privilege escalation
A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch 7.17.0’s upgrade assistant, in which upgrading from version 6.x to 7.x would disable the in-built protections on the security index, allowing authenticated users with “*” index permissions access to this index.
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High 7.5
ICSA-22-053-01 GE Proficy CIMPLICITY-IPM
Exploitation of this vulnerability may result in local privilege escalation and code execution. GE maintains exploitation of this vulnerability is only possible if the attacker has login access to a machine actively running CIMPLICITY, the CIMPLICITY server i…
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High 7.3
Potential vulnerabilities have been identified in UEFI firmware (BIOS) for some PC products which may allow escalation …
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High 7.8
Potential vulnerabilities have been identified in UEFI firmware (BIOS) for some PC products which may allow escalation …
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High 7.8
Potential vulnerabilities have been identified in UEFI firmware (BIOS) for some PC products which may allow escalation …
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High 7.8
Potential vulnerabilities have been identified in UEFI firmware (BIOS) for some PC products which may allow escalation …
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Medium 6.5
A potential vulnerability in AMD System Management Mode (SMM) interrupt handler may allow an attacker with high privile…
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Medium 6.3
Missing Authorization in snipe/snipe-it
Missing Authorization in Packagist snipe/snipe-it prior to 5.3.11.
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High 8.8
Privilege escalation in Defender
x26-Cogs is a repository of cogs made by Twentysix for the Red Discord bot. Among these cogs is the Defender cog, a tool for Discord server moderation. A vulnerability in the Defender cog prior to version 1.10.0 allows users with admin privileges to issue com…
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Medium 6.5
Missing Authorization in snipe/snipe-it
Missing Authorization in Packagist snipe/snipe-it prior to 5.3.9.