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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Medium 5.6
Improper Privilege Management in MA for Windows
Improper privilege management vulnerability in maconfig for McAfee Agent for Windows prior to 5.7.4 allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information. The utility was able to be run from any location on the file system and by a low privileged user.
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High 8.2
Improper privilege management in repair process of MA for Windows
Improper access control vulnerability in the repair process for McAfee Agent for Windows prior to 5.7.4 could allow a local attacker to perform a DLL preloading attack using unsigned DLLs. This would result in elevation of privileges and the ability to execut…
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High 7.8
Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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Unscored —
A vulnerability has been identified in RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000 (All versions < V2.14.1), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1400 (All version…
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Critical 9.8
Apache Airflow: Variable Import endpoint missed authentication check
The variable import endpoint was not protected by authentication in Airflow >=2.0.0, <2.1.3. This allowed unauthenticated users to hit that endpoint to add/modify Airflow variables used in DAGs, potentially resulting in a denial of service, information disclo…
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Medium 6.5
Privilege escalation: all users can access Admin-level API keys
Ghost is a Node.js content management system. An error in the implementation of the limits service between versions 4.0.0 and 4.9.4 allows all authenticated users (including contributors) to view admin-level API keys via the integrations API endpoint, leading…
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Unscored —
Amazon Kindle e-reader prior to and including version 5.13.4 improperly manages privileges, allowing the framework user…
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High 8.8
The management interface of BenQ smart wireless conference projector does not properly control user's privilege. Attack…
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Critical 10.0
TimelockController vulnerability in OpenZeppelin Contracts
OpenZepplin is a library for smart contract development. In affected versions a vulnerability in TimelockController allowed an actor with the executor role to escalate privileges. Further details about the vulnerability will be disclosed at a later date. As a…
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Critical 10.0
TimelockController vulnerability in OpenZeppelin Contracts
OpenZepplin is a library for smart contract development. In affected versions a vulnerability in TimelockController allowed an actor with the executor role to escalate privileges. Further details about the vulnerability will be disclosed at a later date. As a…
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Unscored —
HM Multiple Roles < 1.3 - Arbitrary Role Change
The HM Multiple Roles WordPress plugin before 1.3 does not have any access control to prevent low privilege users to set themselves as admin via their profile page
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Unscored —
Due to a bug with management of handles in OVRServiceLauncher.exe, an attacker could expose a privileged process handle…
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High 7.8
AppDynamics .NET Agent Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the AppDynamics .NET Agent for Windows could allow an attacker to leverage an authenticated, local user account to gain SYSTEM privileges. This vulnerability is due to the .NET Agent Coordinator Service executing code with SYSTEM privileges…
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High 7.0
Windows Event Tracing Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Event Tracing Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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High 8.0
Privilege escalation via form generator
Contao is an open source CMS that allows creation of websites and scalable web applications. In affected versions it is possible to gain privileged rights in the Contao back end. Installations are only affected if they have untrusted back end users who have a…
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High 7.2
Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Has Company Administrator Accounts Vulnerable to Takeovers
Privilege escalation vulnerability in Liferay Portal 7.0.3 through 7.3.4, and Liferay DXP 7.1 before fix pack 20, and 7.2 before fix pack 9 allows remote authenticated users with permission to update/edit users to take over a company administrator user accoun…
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High 7.8
Privilege escalation in mbDIALUP <= 3.9R0.0
In MB connect line mbDIALUP versions <= 3.9R0.0 a low privileged local attacker can send a command to the service running with NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM instructing it to execute a malicous OpenVPN configuration resulting in arbitrary code execution with the privil…
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High 8.8
Improper Privilege Management in Neo4j Graph Database
A failure in resetting the security context in some transaction actions in Neo4j Graph Database 4.2 and 4.3 could allow authenticated users to execute commands with elevated privileges.
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High 7.9CVE-2021-31581 Scanner template
Akkadian Provisioning Manager Engine (PME) Shell Escape via 'vi' editor interface
The restricted shell provided by Akkadian Provisioning Manager Engine (PME) can be escaped by abusing the 'Edit MySQL Configuration' command. This command launches a standard vi editor interface which can then be escaped. This issue was resolved in Akkadian O…
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Unscored —
Improper MDM policy management vulnerability in KME module prior to KCS version 1.39 allows MDM users to bypass Knox Ma…
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Unscored —
Improper privilege management vulnerability in Bluetooth application prior to SMR July-2021 Release 1 allows untrusted …
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Unscored —
Improper validation check vulnerability in PackageManager prior to SMR July-2021 Release 1 allows untrusted application…
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Critical 9.8
ProfilePress 3.0 - 3.1.3 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
A vulnerability in the user registration component found in the ~/src/Classes/RegistrationAuth.php file of the ProfilePress WordPress plugin made it possible for users to register on sites as an administrator. This issue affects versions 3.0.0 - 3.1.3. .
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Critical 9.8CVE-2021-34622 Scanner template
ProfilePress 3.0 - 3.1.3 - Authenticated Privilege Escalation
A vulnerability in the user profile update component found in the ~/src/Classes/EditUserProfile.php file of the ProfilePress WordPress plugin made it possible for users to escalate their privileges to that of an administrator while editing their profile. This…
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High 8.8
Facility Explorer
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could give an authenticated Facility Explorer SNC Series Supervisory Controller (F4-SNC) user an unintended level of access to the controller’s file system, allowing them to access or modify system files by sendin…
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High 8.8
WEIDMUELLER: WLAN devices affected by improper access control vulnerability
In Weidmueller Industrial WLAN devices in multiple versions an exploitable improper access control vulnerability exists in the iw_webs account settings functionality. A specially crafted user name entry can cause the overwrite of an existing user account pass…
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Critical 9.9
Improper privilege management vulnerability in cgi component in Synology Download Station before 3.8.16-3566 allows rem…
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Unscored —
ZOLL Defibrillator Dashboard, v prior to 2.2,The affected products contain insecure filesystem permissions that could a…
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Unscored —
Improper component protection vulnerability in Samsung Internet prior to version 14.0.1.62 allows untrusted application…
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High 8.8
Improper Access Control Vulnerability in Helpdesk
An improper access control vulnerability has been reported to affect QNAP NAS. If exploited, this vulnerability allows remote attackers to compromise the security of the software. This issue affects: QNAP Systems Inc. Helpdesk versions prior to 3.0.4.
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Medium 4.8
Incorrect permissions on McAfee Agent for Windows event folder
Improper privilege management vulnerability in McAfee Agent for Windows prior to 5.7.3 allows a local user to modify event information in the MA event folder. This allows a local user to either add false events or remove events from the event logs prior to th…
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High 8.8
Metasys Improper Privilege Management
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could give an authenticated Metasys user an unintended level of access to the server file system, allowing them to access or modify system files by sending specifically crafted web messages to the Metasys system. …
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Unscored —
An user able to alter the savevm data (either on the disk or over the wire during migration) could use this flaw to to …
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High 7.8
Improper Privilege Management in Spring Framework
In Spring Framework, versions 5.2.x prior to 5.2.15 and versions 5.3.x prior to 5.3.7, a WebFlux application is vulnerable to a privilege escalation: by (re)creating the temporary storage directory, a locally authenticated malicious user can read or modify fi…
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High 7.8
Permissions bypass in pleaser
Failure to normalize the umask in please before 0.4 allows a local attacker to gain full root privileges if they are allowed to execute at least one command.
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Unscored —
Improper Privilege Management vulnerability exists in homeLYnk (Wiser For KNX) and spaceLYnk V2.60 and prior which coul…
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Unscored —
Improper Privilege Management vulnerability exists in homeLYnk (Wiser For KNX) and spaceLYnk V2.60 and prior which coul…
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Unscored —
In Versa Analytics, the cron jobs are used for scheduling tasks by executing commands at specific dates and times on th…
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Unscored —
Store Locator Plus <= 5.5.14 - Authenticated Privilege Escalation
There is functionality in the Store Locator Plus for WordPress plugin through 5.5.14 that made it possible for authenticated users to update their user meta data to become an administrator on any site using the plugin.
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Critical 9.8CVE-2021-33026 Public exploit
Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Flask-Caching
The Flask-Caching extension through 1.10.1 for Flask relies on Pickle for serialization, which may lead to remote code execution or local privilege escalation. If an attacker gains access to cache storage (e.g., filesystem, Memcached, Redis, etc.), they can c…