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.— MITRE CWE catalog
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CVEs classified under CWE-269page 24 of 108
- CVE-2023-1597HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-07-10
The tagDiv Cloud Library WordPress plugin before 2.7 does not have authorisation and CSRF in an AJAX action accessible to both unauthenticated and authenticated users, allowing unauthenticated users to change arbitrary user metadata, which…
- CVE-2023-31469HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-06-23
A REST interface in Apache StreamPipes (versions 0.69.0 to 0.91.0) was not properly restricted to admin-only access. This allowed a non-admin user with valid login credentials to elevate privileges beyond the initially assigned roles. The…
- CVE-2023-2833HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-06-06
The ReviewX plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 1.6.13 due to insufficient restriction on the 'rx_set_screen_options' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, wi…
- CVE-2023-32696HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-05-30
CKAN is an open-source data management system for powering data hubs and data portals. Prior to versions 2.9.9 and 2.10.1, the `ckan` user (equivalent to www-data) owned code and configuration files in the docker container and the `ckan` u…
- CVE-2023-2240HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-04-22
Improper Privilege Management in GitHub repository microweber/microweber prior to 1.3.4.
- CVE-2022-27487HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-04-11
A improper privilege management in Fortinet FortiSandbox version 4.2.0 through 4.2.2, 4.0.0 through 4.0.2 and before 3.2.3 and FortiDeceptor version 4.1.0, 4.0.0 through 4.0.2 and before 3.3.3 allows a remote authenticated attacker to perf…
- CVE-2023-1762HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-03-31
Improper Privilege Management in GitHub repository thorsten/phpmyfaq prior to 3.1.12.
- CVE-2020-36666HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-03-27
The directory-pro WordPress plugin before 1.9.5, final-user-wp-frontend-user-profiles WordPress plugin before 1.2.2, producer-retailer WordPress plugin through TODO, photographer-directory WordPress plugin before 1.0.9, real-estate-pro Wor…
- CVE-2023-27094HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-03-23
An issue found in OpenGoofy Hippo4j v.1.4.3 allows attackers to escalate privileges via the ThreadPoolController of the tenant Management module.
- CVE-2023-24760HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-03-16
An issue found in Ofcms v.1.1.4 allows a remote attacker to to escalate privileges via the respwd method in SysUserController.
- CVE-2023-28339HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-03-14
OpenDoas through 6.8.2, when TIOCSTI is available, allows privilege escalation because of sharing a terminal with the original session. NOTE: TIOCSTI is unavailable in OpenBSD 6.0 and later, and can be made unavailable in the Linux kernel …
- CVE-2022-45608HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-03-01
An issue was discovered in ThingsBoard 3.4.1, allows low privileged attackers (CUSTOMER_USER) to gain escalated privileges (vertically) and become an Administrator (TENANT_ADMIN) or (SYS_ADMIN) on the web application. It is important to no…
- CVE-2022-48341HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-02-23
ThingsBoard 3.4.1 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to achieve Vertical Privilege Escalation. A Tenant Administrator can obtain System Administrator dashboard access by modifying the scope via the scopes parameter.
- CVE-2022-42735HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-02-15
Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Apache Software Foundation Apache ShenYu. ShenYu Admin allows low-privilege low-level administrators create users with higher privileges than their own. This issue affects Apache ShenYu: 2.…
- CVE-2023-25149HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-02-14
TimescaleDB, an open-source time-series SQL database, has a privilege escalation vulnerability in versions 2.8.0 through 2.9.2. During installation, TimescaleDB creates a telemetry job that is runs as the installation user. The queries run…
- CVE-2023-0524HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-02-01
As part of our Security Development Lifecycle, a potential privilege escalation issue was identified internally. This could allow a malicious actor with sufficient permissions to modify environment variables and abuse an impacted plugin in…
- CVE-2022-46359HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-01-30
Potential vulnerabilities have been identified in HP Security Manager which may allow escalation of privilege, arbitrary code execution, and information disclosure.
- CVE-2022-46358HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-01-30
Potential vulnerabilities have been identified in HP Security Manager which may allow escalation of privilege, arbitrary code execution, and information disclosure.
- CVE-2022-46357HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-01-30
Potential vulnerabilities have been identified in HP Security Manager which may allow escalation of privilege, arbitrary code execution, and information disclosure.
- CVE-2022-46356HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-01-30
Potential vulnerabilities have been identified in HP Security Manager which may allow escalation of privilege, arbitrary code execution, and information disclosure.
- CVE-2023-0101HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-01-20
A privilege escalation vulnerability was identified in Nessus versions 8.10.1 through 8.15.8 and 10.0.0 through 10.4.1. An authenticated attacker could potentially execute a specially crafted file to obtain root or NT AUTHORITY / SYSTEM pr…
- CVE-2023-0242HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-01-18
Rapid7 Velociraptor allows users to be created with different privileges on the server. Administrators are generally allowed to run any command on the server including writing arbitrary files. However, lower privilege users are generally f…
- CVE-2023-21848HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-01-18
Vulnerability in the Oracle Communications Convergence product of Oracle Communications Applications (component: Admin Configuration). The supported version that is affected is 3.0.3.1.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privi…
- CVE-2023-21549HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-01-10
Windows SMB Witness Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2022-3911HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-01-02
The iubenda WordPress plugin before 3.3.3 does does not have authorisation and CSRF in an AJAX action, and does not ensure that the options to be updated belong to the plugin as long as they are arrays. As a result, any authenticated users…
- CVE-2022-4808HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-12-28
Improper Privilege Management in GitHub repository usememos/memos prior to 0.9.1.
- CVE-2022-38065HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-12-21
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the oslo.privsep functionality of OpenStack git master 05194e7618 and prior. Overly permissive functionality within tools leveraging this library within a container can lead increased privileg…
- CVE-2022-38060HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-12-21
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the sudo functionality of OpenStack Kolla git master 05194e7618. A misconfiguration in /etc/sudoers within a container can lead to increased privileges.
- CVE-2022-3641HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-12-12
Elevation of privilege in the Azure SQL Data Source in Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager 2022.3.13 to 2022.3.24 allows an authenticated user to spoof a privileged account.
- CVE-2022-46410HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-12-04
An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup Flex Scale through 3.0. An attacker with non-root privileges may escalate privileges to root by using specific commands.
- CVE-2022-45183HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-11-14
Escalation of privileges in the Web Server in Ironman Software PowerShell Universal 2.x and 3.x allows an attacker with a valid app token to retrieve other app tokens by ID via an HTTP web request. Patched Versions are 3.5.3, 3.4.7, and 2.…
- CVE-2022-39286HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-10-26
Jupyter Core is a package for the core common functionality of Jupyter projects. Jupyter Core prior to version 4.11.2 contains an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in `jupyter_core` that stems from `jupyter_core` executing untrusted f…
- CVE-2022-28169HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-10-25
Brocade Webtools in Brocade Fabric OS versions before Brocade Fabric OS versions v9.1.1, v9.0.1e, and v8.2.3c could allow a low privilege webtools, user, to gain elevated admin rights, or privileges, beyond what is intended or entitled for…
- CVE-2022-37976HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-10-11
Active Directory Certificate Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2022-37975HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-10-11
Windows Group Policy Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2022-42238HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-10-11
A Vertical Privilege Escalation issue in Merchandise Online Store v.1.0 allows an attacker to get access to the admin dashboard.
- CVE-2022-39032HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-09-28
Smart eVision has an improper privilege management vulnerability. A remote attacker with general user privilege can exploit this vulnerability to escalate to administrator privilege, and then perform arbitrary system command or disrupt ser…
- CVE-2022-41604HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-09-27
Check Point ZoneAlarm Extreme Security before 15.8.211.19229 allows local users to escalate privileges. This occurs because of weak permissions for the %PROGRAMDATA%\CheckPoint\ZoneAlarm\Data\Updates directory, and a self-protection driver…
- CVE-2022-3068HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-09-21
Improper Privilege Management in GitHub repository octoprint/octoprint prior to 1.8.3.
- CVE-2022-38351HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-09-19
A vulnerability in Suprema BioStar (aka Bio Star) 2 v2.8.16 allows attackers to escalate privileges to System Administrator via a crafted PUT request to the update profile page.
- CVE-2022-39203HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-09-13
matrix-appservice-irc is an open source Node.js IRC bridge for Matrix. Attackers can specify a specific string of characters, which would confuse the bridge into combining an attacker-owned channel and an existing channel, allowing them to…
- CVE-2022-35841HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-09-13
Windows Enterprise App Management Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-3020HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-08-26
An issue was discovered in ClusterLabs Hawk (aka HA Web Konsole) through 2.3.0-15. It ships the binary hawk_invoke (built from tools/hawk_invoke.c), intended to be used as a setuid program. This allows the hacluster user to invoke certain …
- CVE-2022-36157HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-08-19
XXL-JOB all versions as of 11 July 2022 are vulnerable to Insecure Permissions resulting in the ability to execute admin function with low Privilege account.
- CVE-2022-20254HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-08-12
In Wi-Fi, there is a permissions bypass. This could lead to local escalation of privilege from the guest user with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android…
- CVE-2022-20347HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-08-10
In onAttach of ConnectedDeviceDashboardFragment.java, there is a possible permission bypass due to a confused deputy. This could lead to remote escalation of privilege in Bluetooth settings with no additional execution privileges needed. U…
- CVE-2022-34691HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-08-09
Active Directory Domain Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2022-2273HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-08-01
The Simple Membership WordPress plugin before 4.1.3 does not properly validate the membership_level parameter when editing a profile, allowing members to escalate to a higher membership level by using a crafted POST request.
- CVE-2022-22026HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-07-12
Windows Client Server Run-time Subsystem (CSRSS) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2022-32536HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-06-23
The user access rights validation in the web server of the Bosch Ethernet switch PRA-ES8P2S with software version 1.01.05 was insufficient. This would allow a non-administrator user to obtain administrator user access rights.
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