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CWE-274: Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges

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The product does not handle or incorrectly handles when it has insufficient privileges to perform an operation.

Source: MITRE CWE-274

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  • Medium 5.7

    Apache Accumulo: A user can trigger a graceful shutdown of services without the relevant system permissions

    Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges vulnerability in Apache Accumulo. An authenticated, but low-privileged user without system permissions may issue a remote command to gracefully shutdown system components (compaction-coordinator, compactor, gc, man…

  • Medium 5.3

    Improper handling of insufficient privileges in the AMD Secure Processor (ASP) could allow an attacker to provide an in…

  • Medium 4.3

    Apache OpenMeetings: Insufficient checks in FileWebService

    Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges vulnerability in Apache OpenMeetings. Any registered user can query web service with their credentials and get files/sub-folders of any folder by ID (metadata only NOT contents). Metadata includes id, type, name an…

  • Medium 4.3

    Mastodon streaming API fails to disconnect disabled and suspended users

    Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. In versions before 4.4.6, 4.3.14, and 4.2.27, disabling or suspending a user account does not disconnect the account from the streaming API. This allows disabled or suspended accounts…

  • Low 3.3

    Improper handling of insufficiency privileges in the ASP could allow a privileged attacker to modify Translation Map Re…

  • Critical 9.8

    spimsimulator spim v9.1.24 and before is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow in READ_STRING_SYSCALL.

  • Medium 6.2

    A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.6. A sandboxed …

  • Medium 6.7

    Cisco IOS XR Software Image Verification Bypass Vulnerability

    A vulnerability in the boot process of Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to bypass Cisco IOS XR image signature verification and load unverified software on an affected device. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must …

  • High 7.8

    GPU DDK - Arbitrary write of read-only dmabuf

    Software installed and run as a non-privileged user may conduct improper read/write operations on imported/exported DMA buffers.

  • Critical 9.9

    Cisco Meeting Management Client-Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

    A vulnerability in the REST API of Cisco Meeting Management could allow a remote, authenticated attacker with low privileges to elevate privileges to administrator on an affected device. This vulnerability exists because proper authorization is not enforced u…

  • Medium 4.7

    ClassCMS User Management Page admin insufficient privileges

    A vulnerability has been found in ClassCMS up to 4.8 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /admin?do=admin:user:editPost of the component User Management Page. The manipulation leads to improper han…

  • High 8.7

    NVIDIA ConnectX Host Firmware for the BlueField Data Processing Unit (DPU) contains a vulnerability where an attacker m…

  • High 8.9

    NVIDIA ConnectX Firmware contains a vulnerability where an attacker may cause an improper handling of insufficient priv…

  • High 7.2

    JupyterHub has a privilege escalation vulnerability with the `admin:users` scope

    JupyterHub is software that allows one to create a multi-user server for Jupyter notebooks. Prior to versions 4.1.6 and 5.1.0, if a user is granted the `admin:users` scope, they may escalate their own privileges by making themselves a full admin user. The imp…

  • Medium 5.5

    A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, low-privileged, local attacker to acc…

  • High 8.0

    XWiki has no right protection on rollback action

    XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. The rollback action is missing a right protection, a user can rollback to a previous version of the page to gain rights they don't have anymore. The probl…

  • High 7.5

    SiberianCMS - CWE-274: Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges

    SiberianCMS - CWE-274: Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges

  • Medium 6.7

    Dell PowerScale OneFS, 8.0.x-9.5.x, contains an improper handling of insufficient privileges vulnerability. A local pri…

  • High 8.5

    Nextcloud user scoped external storage can be used to gather credentials of other users

    Nextcloud Server is a space for data storage on Nextcloud, a self-hosted productivity playform. In NextCloud Server versions 25.0.0 until 25.0.7 and 26.0.0 until 26.0.2 and Nextcloud Enterprise Server versions 19.0.0 until 19.0.13.9, 20.0.0 until 20.0.14.14, …

  • High 7.3

    Dell PowerScale OneFS 9.0.0.x - 9.4.0.x, contains an Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges vulnerability in NFS.…

  • Medium 5.3

    JFrog Artifactory prior to 7.37.13 is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass, which can lead to Privilege Escalation when …

  • High 7.1

    Amazon CloudWatch Agent for Windows has Privilege Escalation Vector

    A privilege escalation issue exists within the Amazon CloudWatch Agent for Windows, software for collecting metrics and logs from Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises servers, in versions up to and including v1.247354. When users trigger a repair of the Agent…

  • Medium 5.4

    Insufficient privilege checks on object access and updates.

    Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges vulnerability in Web UI of Secomea GateManager allows logged in user to access and update privileged information. This issue affects: Secomea GateManager versions prior to 9.7.

  • Medium 5.4

    Dell PowerScale OneFS, versions 8.2.0-9.3.0, contains an Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions vulnerability. A…

  • Medium 5.0

    GateManager information leak for LinkManager Users

    This issue affects: Secomea GateManager Version 9.6.621421014 and all prior versions. Permission Issues vulnerability in LinkManager web portal of Secomea GateManager allows logged in LinkManager user to access stored SiteManager backup files.

  • High 7.2

    Insufficient Security Control Vulnerability

    Insufficient security control vulnerability in internal database access mechanism of Hitachi Energy Relion 670/650/SAM600-IO, Relion 650, GMS600, PWC600 allows attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability, of which the product does not sufficiently …

  • High 7.8

    Insecure Windows Services in Symphony Plus

    In Symphony Plus Operations and Symphony Plus Historian, some services can be vulnerable to privilege escalation attacks. An unprivileged (but authenticated) user could execute arbitrary code and result in privilege escalation, depending on the user that the …

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2020-7283 Public exploit

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP)

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) before 16.0.R26 allows local users to create and edit files via symbolic link manipulation in a location they would otherwise not have access to. This is achieved through running a malicious …

  • High 7.8

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability in MAR for Linux

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Active Response (MAR) for Linux prior to 2.4.3 Hotfix 1 allows a malicious script or program to perform functions that the local executing user has not been granted access to.

  • High 7.8

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability MAR for Mac

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Active Response (MAR) for Mac prior to 2.4.3 Hotfix 1 allows a malicious script or program to perform functions that the local executing user has not been granted access to.

  • High 7.8

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability in EDR for Linux

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Exploit Detection and Response (EDR) for Linux prior to 3.1.0 Hotfix 1 allows a malicious script or program to perform functions that the local executing user has not been granted access to.

  • High 7.8

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability in EDR for Mac

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Exploit Detection and Response (EDR) for Mac prior to 3.1.0 Hotfix 1 allows a malicious script or program to perform functions that the local executing user has not been granted access to.

  • High 7.8

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability in MAR for Windows

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Active Response (MAR) for Windows prior to 2.4.3 Hotfix 1 allows a malicious script or program to perform functions that the local executing user has not been granted access to.

  • High 7.8

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability in MVISION Endpoint

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee MVISION Endpoint prior to 20.5.0.94 allows a malicious script or program to perform functions that the local executing user has not been granted access to.

  • High 7.8

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability in EDR for Windows

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Exploit Detection and Response (EDR) for Windows prior to 3.1.0 Hotfix 1 allows a malicious script or program to perform functions that the local executing user has not been granted access to.

  • High 8.8

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability through symbolic links in VSEL

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) for Linux prior to 2.0.3 Hotfix 2635000 allows local users to delete files the user would otherwise not have access to via manipulating symbolic links to redirect a McAfee delete action t…

  • High 8.8

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability through symbolic links in VSE for Windows

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) for Windows prior to 8.8 Patch 14 Hotfix 116778 allows local users to delete files the user would otherwise not have access to via manipulating symbolic links to redirect a McAfee delete …

  • High 8.8

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability through symbolic links in ENSM

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Mac prior to 10.6.9 allows local users to delete files the user would otherwise not have access to via manipulating symbolic links to redirect a McAfee delete action to an unintended fil…

  • High 8.8

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability through symbolic links in ENS for Windows

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 Hotfix 199847 allows local users to delete files the user would otherwise not have access to via manipulating symbolic links to redirect a McAfee delete action to…

  • Medium 5.6

    Endpoint Security for Linux Threat Prevention (ENSLTP) privilege escalation vulnerability

    An unprivileged user can delete arbitrary files on a Linux system running ENSLTP 10.5.1, 10.5.0, and 10.2.3 Hotfix 1246778 and earlier. By exploiting a time of check to time of use (TOCTOU) race condition during a specific scanning sequence, the unprivileged …