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
3,028 results · Feed
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Unscored —
A CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management vulnerability exists that could cause an arbitrary command execution when the …
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Medium 4.2
Improper privilege management vulnerability in Samsung Video Player prior to version 7.3.15.30 allows attackers to exec…
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Critical 9.9
All Dell EMC Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub versions contain a privilege escalation vulnerability. A r…
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Critical 9.8
Improper Privilege Management in Gitea
An issue exsits in Gitea through 1.15.7, which could let a malicious user gain privileges due to client side cookies not being deleted and the session remains valid on the server side for reuse.
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Medium 6.5
Improper Privilege Management in chatwoot/chatwoot
Improper Privilege Management in GitHub repository chatwoot/chatwoot prior to v2.2.
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Medium 5.4
WordPress WP Google Map plugin <= 1.8.0 - Privilege Escalation vulnerability
The Privilege Escalation vulnerability discovered in the WP Google Map WordPress plugin (versions <= 1.8.0) allows authenticated low-role users to create, edit, and delete maps.
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Medium 4.3
Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File in delgan/loguru
Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File in Conda loguru prior to 0.5.3.
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Medium 6.5
Apache Airflow: Creating DagRuns didn't respect Dag-level permissions in the Webserver
In Apache Airflow prior to 2.2.0. This CVE applies to a specific case where a User who has "can_create" permissions on DAG Runs can create Dag Runs for dags that they don't have "edit" permissions for.
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High 8.2
Execution with Unnecessary Privileges in ipython
IPython (Interactive Python) is a command shell for interactive computing in multiple programming languages, originally developed for the Python programming language. Affected versions are subject to an arbitrary code execution vulnerability achieved by not p…
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Medium —
Improper Privilege Management in shelljs
### Impact Output from the synchronous version of `shell.exec()` may be visible to other users on the same system. You may be affected if you execute `shell.exec()` in multi-user Mac, Linux, or WSL environments, or if you execute `shell.exec()` as the root us…
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High 7.5
Agent-to-controller security bypass in Jenkins Debian Package Builder Plugin
Jenkins Debian Package Builder Plugin 1.6.11 and earlier implements functionality that allows agents to invoke command-line `git` at an attacker-specified path on the controller, allowing attackers able to control agent processes to invoke arbitrary OS comman…
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Medium 5.3
Agent-to-controller security bypass in Jenkins Conjur Secrets Plugin allows retrieving all credentials
Jenkins Conjur Secrets Plugin 1.0.9 and earlier implements functionality that allows attackers able to control agent processes to retrieve all username/password credentials stored on the Jenkins controller.
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High 8.2
Permissions granted to applications can be hidden from the user at install time
Flatpak is a Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework. Prior to versions 1.12.3 and 1.10.6, Flatpak doesn't properly validate that the permissions displayed to the user for an app at install time match the actual permissions granted to the app …
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High 7.1
Improper Privilege Management in shelljs/shelljs
shelljs is vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management
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Medium 4.0
Unprotected dynamic receiver in SecSettings prior to SMR Jan-2022 Release 1 allows untrusted applications to launch arb…
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Medium 4.0
(Applicable to China models only) Unprotected WifiEvaluationService in TencentWifiSecurity application prior to SMR Jan…
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High 7.1
Potential product security bypass vulnerability in McAfee Application and Change Control (MACC) prior to version 8.3.4 …
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High 8.8
User privilege escalation in MinIO
MinIO is a Kubernetes native application for cloud storage. Prior to version `RELEASE.2021-12-27T07-23-18Z`, a malicious client can hand-craft an HTTP API call that allows for updating policy for a user and gaining higher privileges. The patch in version `REL…
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High 7.8
Mesa Labs AmegaView Improper Privilege Management
Mesa Labs AmegaView Versions 3.0 and prior has insecure file permissions that could be exploited to escalate privileges on the device.
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Medium 6.7
Dell EMC Avamar Server versions 18.2, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, and 19.4 contain an improper privilege management vulnerability…
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High 7.2
Privilege escalation in the Sulu Admin panel
Sulu is an open-source PHP content management system based on the Symfony framework. In affected versions Sulu users who have access to any subset of the admin UI are able to elevate their privilege. Over the API it was possible for them to give themselves pe…
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High 7.5
Improper Privilege Management in Patrowl
PatrOwl is a free and open-source solution for orchestrating Security Operations. In versions prior to 1.77 an improper privilege management (IDOR) has been found in PatrowlManager. All imports findings file is placed under /media/imports/<owner_id>/<tmp_file…
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High 7.8
APM Java Agent Local Privilege Escalation
A local privilege escalation issue was found with the APM Java agent, where a user on the system could attach a malicious file to an application running with the APM Java agent. Using this vector, a malicious or compromised user account could use the agent to…
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Medium 4.0
An improper usage of implicit intent in SemRewardManager prior to SMR Dec-2021 Release 1 allows attackers to access BSS…
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Low 2.4
An improper privilege management vulnerability in Apps Edge application prior to SMR Dec-2021 Release 1 allows unauthor…
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High 8.1
Improper Privilege Management in devise_masquerade
The devise_masquerade gem before 1.3 allows certain attacks when a password's salt is unknown. An application that uses this gem to let administrators masquerade/impersonate users loses one layer of security protection compared to a situation where Devise (wi…
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Medium 4.3
Bypass of Poll voting limits in Discourse
Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In affected versions a vulnerability in the Polls feature allowed users to vote multiple times in a single-option poll. The problem is patched in the latest tests-passed, beta and stable versions of Discourse
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High 8.8
Networking OS10, versions prior to October 2021 with RESTCONF API enabled, contains a privilege escalation vulnerabilit…
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High 8.8
Improper Privilege Management in Concrete CMS
Privilege escalation from Editor to Admin using Groups in Concrete CMS versions 8.5.6 and below. If a group is granted "view" permissions on the bulkupdate page, then users in that group can escalate to being an administrator with a specially crafted curl. Fi…
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Unscored —
It was discovered that on Windows operating systems specifically, Kibana was not validating a user supplied path, which…
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Medium 5.3
Improper privilege management vulnerability in API Key used in SmartThings prior to 1.7.73.22 allows an attacker to abu…
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High 7.9
A vulnerability of storing sensitive information insecurely in Property Settings prior to SMR Nov-2021 Release 1 allows…
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Medium 6.7
McAfee Total Protection (MTP) - Privilege Escalation vulnerability
Privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows trial installer of McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.34_x may allow a local user to run arbitrary code as the admin user by replacing a specific temporary file created during the installation of the …
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High 7.1
Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: Denial of Service vulnerability in local file processing
An improper privilege management vulnerability in the Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved command-line interpreter (CLI) allows a low-privileged user to overwrite local files as root, possibly leading to a system integrity issue or Denial of Servic…
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High 7.8
Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows a local, low-privileged user to cause the Juniper DHCP daemon (jdhcpd) process to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS), or execute arbitrary commands …
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High 7.5
Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: Privilege escalation vulnerability in Juniper Extension Toolkit (JET)
An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in the gRPC framework, used by the Juniper Extension Toolkit (JET) API on Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved, allows a network-based, low-privileged authenticated attacker to perform operations as roo…
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Critical 9.8
exacqVision Web Service
Under certain configurations an unauthenticated remote user could be given access to credentials stored in the exacqVision Server.
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Low 2.9
Hashicorp Vault Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise through 1.7.4 and 1.8.3 allowed a user with write permission to an entity alias ID sharing a mount accessor with another user to acquire this other user’s policies by merging their identities. Fixed in Vault and Vault Ente…
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Medium 5.4
Cisco Smart Software Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the web UI of Cisco Smart Software Manager On-Prem (SSM On-Prem) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to elevate privileges and create, read, update, or delete records and settings in multiple functions. This vulnerability is due t…
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High 8.8
Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Drive Encryption (MDE)
Privilege Escalation vulnerability in a Windows system driver of McAfee Drive Encryption (DE) prior to 7.3.0 could allow a local non-admin user to gain elevated system privileges via exploiting an unutilized memory buffer.