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 9.8CVE-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…
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High 7.8
Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP)
Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.32 allows a local user to gain elevated privileges by impersonating a client token which could lead to the bypassing of MTP self-defense.
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High 7.3
.NET and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
.NET and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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Medium 6.2
Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions in auto-generated Java, Scala code
OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec. Using `File.createTempFile` in JDK will result in creating and using insecure temporary files that…
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Critical 9.3
Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions in the OpenAPI-Generator online generator
Openapi generator is a java tool which allows generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec. openapi-generator-online creates insecure temporary folders with File.createT…
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High 8.8
Cisco Small Business 100, 300, and 500 Series Wireless Access Points Vulnerabilities
Multiple vulnerabilities in the web-based management interface of certain Cisco Small Business 100, 300, and 500 Series Wireless Access Points could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to obtain sensitive information from or inject arbitrary commands on a…
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High 8.8
Cisco Small Business 100, 300, and 500 Series Wireless Access Points Vulnerabilities
Multiple vulnerabilities in the web-based management interface of certain Cisco Small Business 100, 300, and 500 Series Wireless Access Points could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to obtain sensitive information from or inject arbitrary commands on a…
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Medium 6.7
Cisco Content Security Management Appliance Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the user account management system of Cisco AsyncOS for Cisco Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate their privileges to root. This vulnerability is due to a procedural flaw in th…
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High 8.1
Any logged in user could edit any other logged in user.
a12n-server is an npm package which aims to provide a simple authentication system. A new HAL-Form was added to allow editing users in version 0.18.0. This feature should only have been accessible to admins. Unfortunately, privileges were incorrectly checked …
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Unscored —
A vulnerability has been identified in Mendix Applications using Mendix 7 (All versions < V7.23.19), Mendix Application…
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High 7.8
Privilege escalation in McAfee DLP Endpoint for Windows
Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint for Windows prior to 11.6.100 allows a local, low privileged, attacker to write to arbitrary controlled kernel addresses. This is achieved by launching applications, suspending t…
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Medium 6.3CVE-2021-29449 Public exploit
Multiple Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities Pihole
Pi-hole is a Linux network-level advertisement and Internet tracker blocking application. Multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities were discovered in version 5.2.4 of Pi-hole core. See the referenced GitHub security advisory for details.
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High 7.8
Azure ms-rest-nodeauth Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Azure ms-rest-nodeauth Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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Critical 9.8
A vulnerability in the SonicWall Email Security version 10.0.9.x allows an attacker to create an administrative account…
KEV Nov 3, 2021 -
Medium 5.9
An improper exception control in softsimd prior to SMR APR-2021 Release 1 allows unprivileged applications to access th…
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Medium 6.8
An improper access control in ActivityManagerService prior to SMR APR-2021 Release 1 allows untrusted applications to a…
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Medium 6.8
An improper permission management in CertInstaller prior to SMR APR-2021 Release 1 allows untrusted applications to del…
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Medium 4.8
Local privilege escalation in MongoDB Compass for Windows
A malicious 3rd party with local access to the Windows machine where MongoDB Compass is installed can execute arbitrary software with the privileges of the user who is running MongoDB Compass. This issue affects: MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Compass 1.x version 1.3.0…
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Unscored —
Orbit Fox by ThemeIsle < 2.10.3 - Authenticated Privilege Escalation
Orbit Fox by ThemeIsle has a feature to add a registration form to both the Elementor and Beaver Builder page builders functionality. As part of the registration form, administrators can choose which role to set as the default for users upon registration. Thi…
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Medium 6.6
Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN Software Console Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the role-based access control of Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker with read-only privileges to obtain administrative privileges by using the console port when the device is in the default SD-WAN conf…
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Medium 4.4
Improper access control in clipboard service in Samsung mobile devices prior to SMR Mar-2021 Release 1 allows untrusted…
KEV Nov 8, 2022 -
Low 2.8
Improper access control in NotificationManagerService in Samsung mobile devices prior to SMR Mar-2021 Release 1 allows …
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Medium 6.5
An issue was discovered in MB connect line mymbCONNECT24 and mbCONNECT24 software in all versions through V2.6.2. Impro…
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Medium 6.5
Improper Access Validation in products of MB connect line and Helmholz
An issue was discovered in MB connect line mymbCONNECT24, mbCONNECT24 and Helmholz myREX24 and myREX24.virtual in all versions through v2.11.2. Improper access validation allows a logged in user to shutdown or reboot devices in his account without having corr…
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Critical 10.0CVE-2021-1388 EPSS 15%
Cisco ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator Application Services Engine Deployment Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
A vulnerability in an API endpoint of Cisco ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator (MSO) installed on the Application Services Engine could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper tok…
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High 8.8
Privilege escalation in spring security
Spring Security 5.4.x prior to 5.4.4, 5.3.x prior to 5.3.8.RELEASE, 5.2.x prior to 5.2.9.RELEASE, and older unsupported versions can fail to save the SecurityContext if it is changed more than once in a single request.A malicious user cannot cause the bug to …
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Medium 5.3
Apache Airflow: Lineage API endpoint for Experimental API missed authentication check
The lineage endpoint of the deprecated Experimental API was not protected by authentication in Airflow 2.0.0. This allowed unauthenticated users to hit that endpoint. This is low-severity issue as the attacker needs to be aware of certain parameters to pass t…
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Medium 6.5
CWE-284 Improper Access Control on Configurations Endpoint for the Stable API
Improper Access Control on Configurations Endpoint for the Stable API of Apache Airflow allows users with Viewer or User role to get Airflow Configurations including sensitive information even when `[webserver] expose_config` is set to `False` in `airflow.cfg…
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Critical 9.0
Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) UI
Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.8 allows an authenticated user to gain elevated privileges through the User Interface and execute commands on the appliance via incorrect improper neutralization of user input in the …
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High 8.2CVE-2021-23874 Exploited
McAfee Total Protection (MTP) privilege escalation vulnerability
Arbitrary Process Execution vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.30 allows a local user to gain elevated privileges and execute arbitrary code bypassing MTP self-defense.
KEV Nov 3, 2021 -
High 7.8
McAfee Total Protection (MTP) Bypass Remote Procedure call vulnerability
Bypass Remote Procedure call in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.30 allows a local user to gain elevated privileges and perform arbitrary file modification as the SYSTEM user potentially causing Denial of Service via executing carefully constructed…
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High 8.2
Improper Access Control in the ENS installer
Improper Access Control vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2021 Update allows local administrators to prevent the installation of some ENS files by placing carefully crafted files where ENS will be installed. …
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Medium 6.7
Improper Access Control in the ENS installer
Improper Access Control in attribute in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2021 Update allows authenticated local administrator user to perform an uninstallation of the anti-malware engine via the running of a specific command…
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High 7.8
Dell EMC PowerScale OneFS versions 8.1.0 - 9.1.0 contain a privilege escalation vulnerability. A user with ISI_PRIV_JOB…
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High 7.5
Improper Privilege Management in HashiCorp Nomad
HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise up to 0.12.9 exec and java task drivers can access processes associated with other tasks on the same node. Fixed in 0.12.10, and 1.0.3.
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Unscored —
A flaw was found in qemu. A host privilege escalation issue was found in the virtio-fs shared file system daemon where …
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High 8.8
Improper Privilege Management in Apache Hadoop
In Apache Hadoop 3.2.0 to 3.2.1, 3.0.0-alpha1 to 3.1.3, and 2.0.0-alpha to 2.10.0, WebHDFS client might send SPNEGO authorization header to remote URL without proper verification.
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High 7.8
ClusterLabs crmsh vulnerable to shell code injection
An issue was discovered in ClusterLabs crmsh through 4.2.1. Local attackers able to call "crm history" (when "crm" is run) were able to execute commands via shell code injection to the crm history commandline, potentially allowing escalation of privileges.
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High 7.0
Dell EMC Isilon OneFS versions 8.1 and later and Dell EMC PowerScale OneFS version 9.0.0 contain a privilege escalation…
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Unscored —CVE-2020-8290 Public exploit
Backblaze for Windows and Backblaze for macOS before 7.0.0.439 suffer from improper privilege management in `bztransmit…