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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High 8.1
Privilege Escalation in mintplex-labs/anything-llm
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in mintplex-labs/anything-llm, allowing users with 'default' role to delete documents uploaded by 'admin'. Despite the intended restriction that prevents 'default' role users from deleting admin-uploaded documents, …
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Critical 10.0
OpenObserve Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Users API
OpenObserve is a observability platform built specifically for logs, metrics, traces, analytics, designed to work at petabyte scale. A vulnerability has been identified in the "/api/{org_id}/users" endpoint. This vulnerability allows any authenticated regular…
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Critical 9.1
OpenObserve Unauthorized Access Vulnerability in Users API
OpenObserve is a observability platform built specifically for logs, metrics, traces, analytics, designed to work at petabyte scale. A critical vulnerability has been identified in the "/api/{org_id}/users/{email_id}" endpoint. This vulnerability allows any a…
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High 7.3
Dell Display Manager application, version 2.1.1.17, contains a vulnerability that low privilege user can execute malici…
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High 7.3
Dell Display Manager, versions 2.1.0 and prior, contains an arbitrary file or folder creation vulnerability during inst…
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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…
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High 8.8
Remote code execution in Valmet DNA before Collection 2021
A remote code execution vulnerability affecting a Valmet DNA service listening on TCP port 1517, allows an attacker to execute commands with SYSTEM privileges This issue affects: Valmet DNA versions from Collection 2012 until Collection 2021.