Weakness (CWE)
CWE-272: Least Privilege Violation
The elevated privilege level required to perform operations such as chroot() should be dropped immediately after the operation is performed.
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
Compartmentalize the system to have "safe" areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.
Source: MITRE CWE-272
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Medium 6.7
Dell Alienware Command Center (AWCC), versions prior to 6.14.54.0, contain a Least Privilege Violation vulnerability. A…
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Medium 5.4
Strimzi: Unrestricted access to all Secrets within namespace watched by the Topic operator
Strimzi provides a way to run an Apache Kafka cluster on Kubernetes or OpenShift in various deployment configurations. In Strimzi 1.0.0 and earlier, deploying only the Topic Operator or only the User Operator through the Kafka custom resource leaves the Entit…
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Medium 6.6
HCL IntelliOps Event Management is affected by multiple security vulnerabilities.
HCL IntelliOps Event Management (IEM) is affected by a least privileges violation which could allow an attacker to access the resource with the elevated privilege that could not be accessed with the attacker's original privileges.
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Medium 6.0
Dell Alienware Command Center (AWCC), versions prior to 6.14.20.0, contain an Improper Link Resolution Before File Acce…
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Medium 5.3
TOTOLINK EX200 vsftpd vsftpd.conf least privilege violation
A security flaw has been discovered in TOTOLINK EX200 4.0.3c.7646. This affects an unknown function of the file /etc/vsftpd.conf of the component vsftpd. The manipulation results in least privilege violation. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The …
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Medium 4.3
TOTOLINK CP450 vsftpd vsftpd.conf least privilege violation
A vulnerability was determined in TOTOLINK CP450 4.1.0cu.747. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /etc/vsftpd.conf of the component vsftpd. This manipulation causes least privilege violation. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploit h…
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Medium 5.3
D-Link DCS-5615 Boa Webserver boa.conf least privilege violation
A vulnerability has been found in D-Link DCS-5615 1.01.00. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /etc/conf.d/boa/boa.conf of the component Boa Webserver. Such manipulation leads to least privilege violation. The attack can be …
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Medium 4.3
TOTOLINK AC1200 T8 vsftpd vsftpd.conf least privilege violation
A security vulnerability has been detected in TOTOLINK AC1200 T8 4.1.5cu.8611. This affects an unknown function of the file /etc/vsftpd.conf of the component vsftpd. The manipulation leads to least privilege violation. The attack may be initiated remotely. Th…
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Medium 4.3
D-Link DIR-823G vsftpd vsftpd.conf least privilege violation
A security flaw has been discovered in D-Link DIR-823G 1.0.2B05. The affected element is an unknown function of the file /etc/vsftpd.conf of the component vsftpd. Performing a manipulation results in least privilege violation. The attack can be initiated remo…
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Medium 5.3
Dell Alienware Command Center (AWCC), versions prior to 6.13.8.0, contain a Least Privilege Violation vulnerability. A …
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Medium 6.5
In JetBrains TeamCity before 2025.11.1 excessive privileges were possible due to storing GitHub personal access token i…
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Medium 6.0
Harden-Runner Evasion of 'disable-sudo' policy
Harden-Runner is a CI/CD security agent that works like an EDR for GitHub Actions runners. Versions from 0.12.0 to before 2.12.0 are vulnerable to `disable-sudo` bypass. Harden-Runner includes a policy option `disable-sudo` to prevent the GitHub Actions runne…
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Medium 5.2
Privilege escalation in mk_informix plugin
Least privilege violation and reliance on untrusted inputs in the mk_informix Checkmk agent plugin before Checkmk 2.3.0p12, 2.2.0p32, 2.1.0p47 and 2.0.0 (EOL) allows local users to escalate privileges.
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Medium 6.6
Dell Display Manager, versions 2.1.0 and prior, contains an arbitrary file or folder deletion vulnerability during unin…