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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Unscored —
Emerson DeltaV DCS versions 11.3.1, 12.3.1, 13.3.0, 13.3.1, R5 may allow non-administrative users to change executable …
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Unscored —
In Philips' IntelliSpace Cardiovascular (ISCV) products (ISCV Version 2.x or prior and Xcelera Version 4.1 or prior), a…
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Medium 4.3
katello Improper Privilege Management vulnerability
A flaw was found in Foreman's katello plugin version 3.4.5. After setting a new role to allow restricted access on a repository with a filter (filter set on the Product Name), the filter is not respected when the actions are done via hammer using the reposito…
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Medium 6.5
Jenkins Agiletestware Pangolin Connector for TestRail Plugin CSRF vulnerability and missing permission checks
A data modification vulnerability exists in Jenkins Agiletestware Pangolin Connector for TestRail Plugin 2.1 and earlier in GlobalConfig.java that allows attackers with Overall/Read permission to override this plugin's configuration by sending crafted HTTP re…
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Unscored —
ManageEngine Applications Manager 12 and 13 is vulnerable to privilege escalation and authentication bypass
In ManageEngine Applications Manager 12 and 13 before build 13200, an authenticated user is able to alter all of their own properties, including own group, i.e. changing their group to one with higher privileges like "ADMIN". A user is also able to change pro…
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Medium 5.3
baserCMS Access Control Bypass
baserCMS (baserCMS 4.1.0.1 and earlier versions, baserCMS 3.0.15 and earlier versions) allows remote attackers to bypass access restriction for a content to view a file which is uploaded by a site user via unspecified vectors.
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High 8.1
fis-sass-all downloads Resources over HTTP
fis-sass-all is another libsass wrapper for node. fis-sass-all downloads binary resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks. It may be possible to cause remote code execution (RCE) by swapping out the requested resources with an attacker c…
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High —
Downloads Resources over HTTP in cmake
cmake installs the cmake x86 linux binaries. cmake downloads binary resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks. It may be possible to cause remote code execution (RCE) by swapping out the requested binary with an attacker controlled binar…
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High 8.1
grunt-images downloads Resources over HTTP
grunt-images is a grunt plugin for processing images. grunt-images downloads binary resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks. It may be possible to cause remote code execution (RCE) by swapping out the requested binary with an attacker …
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High —
Downloads Resources over HTTP in node-bsdiff-android
node-bsdiff-android downloads resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks.
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High 8.1
marionette-socket-host downloads Resources over HTTP
marionette-socket-host is a marionette-js-runner host for sending actions over a socket. marionette-socket-host downloads binary resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks. It may be possible to cause remote code execution (RCE) by swappi…
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High —
Downloads Resources over HTTP in openframe-image
openframe-image is an Openframe extension which adds support for images via fbi. openframe-image downloads data resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks.
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High —
Downloads Resources over HTTP in bionode-sra
bionode-sra is a Node.js wrapper for SRA Toolkit. bionode-sra downloads data resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks.
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High —
Downloads Resources over HTTP in haxe
haxe is a cross-platform toolkit haxe downloads zipped resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks. It may be possible to cause remote code execution (RCE) by swapping out the requested zip file with an attacker controlled zip file if the …
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High —
Downloads Resources over HTTP in libxl
libxl provides Node bindings for the libxl library for reading and writing excel (XLS and XLSX) spreadsheets. libxl downloads zipped resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks. It may be possible to cause remote code execution (RCE) by sw…
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High —
Downloads Resources over HTTP in cobalt-cli
cobalt-cli downloads resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks.
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Medium 5.9
ipip downloads Resources over HTTP
ipip is a Node.js module to query geolocation information for an IP or domain, based on database by ipip.net. ipip downloads data resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks.
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High —
Downloads Resources over HTTP in openframe-glslviewer
openframe-glsviewer is a Openframe extension which adds support for shaders via glslViewer. openframe-glsviewer downloads binary resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks. It may be possible to cause remote code execution (RCE) by swappi…
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High 8.1
dwebp-bin downloads Resources over HTTP
dwebp-bin is a dwebp node.js wrapper that convert WebP into PNG. dwebp-bin downloads binary resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks. It may be possible to cause remote code execution (RCE) by swapping out the requested binary with an a…
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High —
Downloads Resources over HTTP in prince
Prince is a Node API for executing XML/HTML to PDF renderer PrinceXML via prince(1) CLI. prince downloads zipped resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks. It may be possible to cause remote code execution (RCE) by swapping out the reque…
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High 8.1
ibapi downloads Resources over HTTP
ibapi is an Interactive Brokers API addon for NodeJS. ibapi downloads binary resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks. Before 2.5.6, it may be possible to cause remote code execution (RCE) by swapping out the requested binary with an at…
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Medium 6.8
Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee VSE when McTray run with elevated privileges
Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Windows client (McTray.exe) in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) 8.8 prior to Patch 13 allows local users to spawn unrelated processes with elevated privileges via the system administrator granting McTray.exe el…
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Medium 6.5
Moodle Improper Privilege Management
An issue was discovered in Moodle 3.x. Students who submitted assignments and exported them to portfolios can download any stored Moodle file by changing the download URL.
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In Advantech WebAccess versions V8.2_20170817 and prior, WebAccess versions V8.3.0 and prior, WebAccess Dashboard versi…
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Critical 9.8
phpMyAdmin Improper Privilege Management
An issue was discovered in libraries/common.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0 before 4.0.10.20, 4.4.x, 4.6.x, and 4.7.0 prereleases. The restrictions caused by $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = false are bypassed under certain PHP versions (e.g., version 5). T…
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High 7.8CVE-2017-0358 Public exploit
ntfs-3g: Modprobe influence vulnerability via environment variables
Jann Horn of Google Project Zero discovered that NTFS-3G, a read-write NTFS driver for FUSE, does not scrub the environment before executing modprobe with elevated privileges. A local user can take advantage of this flaw for local root privilege escalation.
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Unscored —
Ubiquiti Networks EdgeOS version 1.9.1.1 and prior suffer from an Improper Privilege Management vulnerability due to th…
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Unscored —
Ubiquiti Networks EdgeOS version 1.9.1.1 and prior suffer from an Improper Privilege Management vulnerability due to th…
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Unscored —
Ubiquiti Networks EdgeOS version 1.9.1 and prior suffer from an Improper Privilege Management vulnerability due to the …
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Medium 5.5
Tarball permission preservation in puppet
In previous versions of Puppet Agent it was possible to install a module with world writable permissions. Puppet Agent 5.3.4 and 1.10.10 included a fix to this vulnerability.
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Medium 5.3
An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel file system. Product: Android. Versions: Android kernel. Android …
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High 8.1
TeamPass Improper Privilege Management
TeamPass before 2.1.27.9 does not properly enforce item access control when requesting items.queries.php. It is then possible to copy any arbitrary item into a directory controlled by the attacker, edit any item within a read-only directory, delete an arbitra…
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Medium 4.9
TeamPass Improper Privilege Management
TeamPass before 2.1.27.9 does not properly enforce manager access control when requesting users.queries.php. It is then possible for a manager user to delete an arbitrary user (including admin), or modify attributes of any arbitrary user except administrator.…
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Medium 4.9
TeamPass Improper Privilege Management
TeamPass before 2.1.27.9 does not properly enforce manager access control when requesting roles.queries.php. It is then possible for a manager user to modify any arbitrary roles within the application, or delete any arbitrary role. To exploit the vulnerabilit…
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Unscored —
An Improper Privilege Management issue was discovered in SpiderControl SCADA Web Server Version 2.02.0007 and prior. Au…
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Medium 6.5
Improper Privilege Management in Jenkins Config File Provider Plugin
The Config File Provider Plugin is used to centrally manage configuration files that often include secrets, such as passwords. Users with only Overall/Read access to Jenkins were able to access URLs directly that allowed viewing these files. Access to view th…
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Medium 5.3
Improper Privilege Management in X-Pack
The Reporting feature in X-Pack in versions prior to 5.5.2 and standalone Reporting plugin versions versions prior to 2.4.6 had an impersonation vulnerability. A user with the reporting_user role could execute a report with the permissions of another reportin…
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Unscored —
A vulnerability was discovered in Siemens SiPass integrated (All versions before V2.70) that could allow an attacker wi…
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Critical 9.8
OrientDB vulnerable to Improper Privilage Management leading to arbitrary command injection
OrientDB through 2.2.22 does not enforce privilege requirements during "where" or "fetchplan" or "order by" use, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via a crafted request.
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Medium 6.5
Moodle Improper Privilege Management
In Moodle 3.x, course creators are able to change system default settings for courses.