Weakness (CWE)
CWE-281: Improper Preservation of Permissions
The product does not preserve permissions or incorrectly preserves permissions when copying, restoring, or sharing objects, which can cause them to have less restrictive permissions than intended.
Source: MITRE CWE-281
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Improper permission handling during buffer operations allows untrusted applications to create memory mappings with inap…
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High 8.2
Arbitrary Operations via SCIM Endpoints in Multiple WSO2 Products Enables User Account Takeover
The SCIM endpoint does not sufficiently validate authorization for federated users when performing operations against the local user store. This occurs when a local and a federated user share the same username, allowing a federated user to perform actions int…
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Critical 9.8
Multiple jail filesystem root escapes
SCM_RIGHTS file descriptor passing did not preserve FD_RESOLVE_BENEATH when a descriptor was transferred. A process could clear the restriction by sending the descriptor to itself over a Unix domain socket. A process in a jail that has received a directory fi…
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High 7.0
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer where an unprivileged user can wr…
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High 7.8
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the open-source kernel module where an unprivileged loc…
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High 7.8
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer where an unprivileged user can wr…
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High 7.8
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer where permissions on read-only me…
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High 7.0
uutils coreutils 0.0.18 before 0.10.0 Privilege Escalation via setuid
uutils coreutils versions before 0.10.0 apply setuid or setgid mode to install destinations before finalizing ownership changes, allowing privileged users to leave setuid executables owned by the privileged invoker when ownership changes fail. Attackers can e…
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Medium 5.3
OpenFGA: ListUsers returns a deliberately-excluded user (authorization-decision over-inclusion) when a `but not` exclusion under a type-bound wildcard is intersected (`and`) with another relation that also grants that user
OpenFGA is an authorization and permission engine built for developers. Prior to 1.18.1, the ListUsers API could return a user that should have been excluded when an authorization relation used an intersection containing a base but not excluded operand, the b…
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High 8.8
Avast sandbox privilege escalation via unpreserved DACLs on virtualized files in aswSnx.sys
Improper preservation of permissions in the Avast sandbox minifilter driver (aswSnx.sys) on Windows allows a local, low-privileged attacker executing inside the sandbox to escape file isolation and escalate to SYSTEM. When the sandbox virtualizes a file it co…
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Medium 6.7
Go-getter vulnerable to a privilege escalation issue in its archive decompression handling
The go-getter library up to versions 1.8.8 and 2.2.3 is vulnerable to a privilege escalation issue in its archive decompression handling that may allow a crafted archive to cause extracted files to be created with elevated permission bits. Where extraction is…
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High 7.1
rclone: Directory metadata (chmod/chown/chtimes) applied through a planted symlink in rclone local --links escapes the destination
rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to 1.75.1, when backend/local runs with --links, a source .rclonelink object can plant a symlink in the destination and later directory metadat…
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Medium 4.3
GHSA-8fwc-qjw5-rvgp ClearRepoWatches fix not applied to API EditRepo path — sister code path retains stale watches on public->private
GHSA-8fwc-qjw5-rvgp ClearRepoWatches fix not applied to API EditRepo path — sister code path retains stale watches on public->private
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Low 3.8
Improper Access Control via Secret Type Management API in WSO2 Identity Server
The Secret Type Management REST API does not correctly isolate access controls when deleting a secret type. The on-delete cascade logic, when triggered, fails to enforce organizational boundaries, leading to the removal of secrets associated with that type ac…
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Critical 9.4
oxenstored keeps quota related use counts across domain destruction
When oxenstored is tearing a domain down, the node data is cleaned up but the usage counts are leaked. When the domain ID is eventually reused, the new domain can create fewer nodes before beeing deemed to be over quota.
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Medium 6.5
Wasmtime: WASI hard links bypass wasmtime-wasi's FilePerms for destination
Wasmtime is a runtime for WebAssembly. Prior to 24.0.11, 36.0.12, 45.0.3, and 46.0.1, wasmtime-wasi hard-link creation and renaming check directory permissions but not matching FilePerms on source and destination preopens, allowing a WASI guest with a read-on…
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Low 2.0
Tarfile.extract() doesn't fully respect filter parameter
In the Tarfile.extract() function, the filter parameter is not passed properly when extracting hardlinks. An affected system that extracts content from untrusted tar files could end up writing files with an unexpected uid/gid despite the user passing filter='…
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Medium 6.9
Stale PSA ClusterRoleBinding Persists After RoleTemplate Downgrade in Rancher
A missing clean-up in the legacy Project Role Template Binding (PRTB) reconciler in Rancher versions 2.13.0 up to 2.13.7 and 2.14.0 up to 2.14.3 allowed users to retain unauthorized Pod Security Admission (PSA) permissions after an administrator removes those…
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High 7.5
WordPress wpForo Forum plugin < 3.0.2 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Unauthenticated Broken Access Control in wpForo Forum < 3.0.2 versions.
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Low 2.7
Improper preservation of permissions vulnerability in Archiving Push functionality in Synology Surveillance Station bef…
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High 8.7
Snipe-IT: Privilege Escalation via API Permissions Assignment
Snipe-IT is an IT asset/license management system. Prior to 8.4.1, aAn authenticated user with only users.edit permission can escalate their own privileges to admin by sending a PATCH request to /api/v1/users/{id} with permissions[admin]=1. The API controller…
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High 7.8
NVIDIA Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in a kernel mode layer handler, where a user could cause impro…
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Medium 6.3
Invoking bypass of certificate restrictions in golang.org/x/crypto/ssh
When an SSH server authentication callback returned PartialSuccessError with non-nil Permissions, those permissions were silently discarded, potentially dropping certificate restrictions such as force-command after a second factor succeeded. Returning non-nil…
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Critical 9.1
Invoking agent constraints dropped when forwarding keys in golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/agent
When adding a key to a remote agent constraint extensions such as restrict-destination-v00@openssh.com were not serialized in the request. Destination restrictions were silently stripped when forwarding keys, allowing unrestricted use of the key on the remote…
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Medium 5.3
MantisBT authorization bypass allows continued access to self-uploaded attachments on private issues
Mantis Bug Tracker (MantisBT) is an open source issue tracker. Versions 2.28.1 and prior permit a user to list and download their own attachments from an Issue created by another user even after it becomes private, bypassing read access revocation. The loss o…
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Medium 5.7
Joplin Server delta API returns note content after share access is revoked
Joplin is an open source note-taking and to-do application that organises notes and lists into notebooks. Versions 3.5.2 and prior contain a logic error in the delta API that allows share recipients to download notes that are no longer shared with them, relat…
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Medium 5.5
filemanagement_storage_service has an improper preservation of permissions vulnerability
in OpenHarmony v6.0 and prior versions allow a local attacker cause information leak
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Medium 6.3
Improper Access Control via Gateway API in Multiple WSO2 Products Allows Unauthorized Operations
The software fails to enforce role-based access controls for certain Gateway API invocations. Users with the 'Internal/Everyone' role can invoke these APIs, bypassing intended permission checks. This same vulnerability also affects Internal Service APIs, pote…
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Low 3.4
uutils coreutils mknod Security Label Inconsistency and Broken Cleanup on SELinux Systems
The mknod utility in uutils coreutils fails to handle security labels atomically by creating device nodes before setting the SELinux context. If labeling fails, the utility attempts cleanup using std::fs::remove_dir, which cannot remove device nodes or FIFOs.…
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Medium 4.2
uutils coreutils mv Silent Ownership Loss in Cross-Device Operations
The mv utility in uutils coreutils fails to preserve file ownership during moves across different filesystem boundaries. The utility falls back to a copy-and-delete routine that creates the destination file using the caller's UID/GID rather than the source's …
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Medium 6.6
uutils coreutils cp Unexpected Privileged Executable Creation with -p
The cp utility in uutils coreutils fails to properly handle setuid and setgid bits when ownership preservation fails. When copying with the -p (preserve) flag, the utility applies the source mode bits even if the chown operation is unsuccessful. This can resu…
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High 7.1
uutils coreutils mkfifo Unauthorized Permission Change on Existing Files
A vulnerability in uutils coreutils mkfifo allows for the unauthorized modification of permissions on existing files. When mkfifo fails to create a FIFO because a file already exists at the target path, it fails to terminate the operation for that path and co…
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High 7.5
In OpenSSH before 10.3, a file downloaded by scp may be installed setuid or setgid, an outcome contrary to some users' …
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Critical 9.4
Kata Container to Guest micro VM privilege escalation
Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. In versions prior to 3.27.0, an issue in Kata with Cloud Hypervisor allows a user of the container to modify th…
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High 7.8
A vulnerability exists in Quick Heal Total Security 23.0.0 in the quarantine management component where insufficient va…
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Low 3.3
Networkmanager: networkmanager file access
A flaw was found in NetworkManager. The NetworkManager package allows access to files that may belong to other users. NetworkManager allows non-root users to configure the system's network. The daemon runs with root privileges and can access files owned by us…
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High 7.1CVE-2025-55130 Public exploit
A flaw in Node.js’s Permissions model allows attackers to bypass `--allow-fs-read` and `--allow-fs-write` restrictions …
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High 7.5
3scale-porta: readonly fields not validated server-side
A flaw was found in the 3scale Developer Portal. When creating or updating an account in the Developer Portal UI it is possible to modify fields explicitly configured as read-only or hidden, allowing an attacker to modify restricted information.
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High 7.0
Improper preservation of permissions in Elastic Defend on Windows hosts can lead to arbitrary files on the system being…
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High 8.7
Nagios Log Server < 2024R1.3.2 Set Email Privilege Escalation
Nagios Log Server versions prior to 2024R1.3.2 contain a privilege escalation vulnerability in the account email-change workflow. A user could set their own email to an invalid value and, due to insufficient validation and authorization checks tied to email i…