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 26 of 108
- CVE-2021-36307HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-11-20
Networking OS10, versions prior to October 2021 with RESTCONF API enabled, contains a privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious low privileged user with specific access to the API could potentially exploit this vulnerability to gain …
- CVE-2021-43397HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-11-11
LiquidFiles before 3.6.3 allows remote attackers to elevate their privileges from Admin (or User Admin) to Sysadmin.
- CVE-2021-22048HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-11-10
The vCenter Server contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in the IWA (Integrated Windows Authentication) authentication mechanism. A malicious actor with non-administrative access to vCenter Server may exploit this issue to elevate …
- CVE-2021-42291HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-11-10
Active Directory Domain Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-42282HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-11-10
Active Directory Domain Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-24717HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-11-01
The AutomatorWP WordPress plugin before 1.7.6 does not perform capability checks which allows users with Subscriber roles to enumerate automations, disclose title of private posts or user emails, call functions, or perform privilege escala…
- CVE-2021-29745HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-10-15
IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 and 11.2.0 is vulnerable to priviledge escalation where a lower evel user could have access to the 'New Job' page to which they should not have access to. IBM X-Force ID: 201695.
- CVE-2021-42086HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-10-07
An issue was discovered in Zammad before 4.1.1. An Agent account can modify account data, and gain admin access, via a crafted request.
- CVE-2021-41869HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-10-04
SuiteCRM 7.10.x before 7.10.33 and 7.11.x before 7.11.22 is vulnerable to privilege escalation.
- CVE-2021-41322HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-10-04
Poly VVX 400/410 5.3.1 allows low-privileged users to change the Admin password by modifying a POST parameter to 120 during the password reset process.
- CVE-2021-29108HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-10-01
There is an privilege escalation vulnerability in organization-specific logins in Esri Portal for ArcGIS versions 10.9 and below that may allow a remote, authenticated attacker who is able to intercept and modify a SAML assertion to impers…
- CVE-2021-23893HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-10-01
Privilege Escalation vulnerability in a Windows system driver of McAfee Drive Encryption (DE) prior to 7.3.0 could allow a local non-admin user to gain elevated system privileges via exploiting an unutilized memory buffer.
- CVE-2021-3626HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-10-01
The Windows version of Multipass before 1.7.0 allowed any local process to connect to the localhost TCP control socket to perform mounts from the operating system to a guest, allowing for privilege escalation.
- CVE-2021-37274HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-09-27
Kingdee KIS Professional Edition has a privilege escalation vulnerability. Attackers can use the vulnerability to gain computer administrator rights via unspecified loopholes.
- CVE-2021-41387HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-09-17
seatd-launch in seatd 0.6.x before 0.6.2 allows privilege escalation because it uses execlp and may be installed setuid root.
- CVE-2021-36967HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-09-15
Windows WLAN AutoConfig Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-37173HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-09-14
A vulnerability has been identified in RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000 (All versions < V2.14.1), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1400 (All versions < V2.14.1), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1500 (All versions < V2.14.1), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1501 (All versions < V2.14.1), RUGGEDCOM RO…
- CVE-2021-38388HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-09-08
Central Dogma allows privilege escalation with mirroring to the internal dogma repository that has a file managing the authorization of the project.
- CVE-2021-1851HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-09-08
A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2021-002 Catalina, Security Update 2021-003 Mojave, iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5, watchOS 7.4, tvOS 14.5, macOS Big Sur 11.3. An application may…
- CVE-2021-40385HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-09-01
An issue was discovered in the server software in Kaseya Unitrends Backup Software before 10.5.5-2. There is a privilege escalation from read-only user to admin.
- CVE-2021-35508HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-09-01
NMSAccess32.exe in TeraRecon AQNetClient 4.4.13 allows attackers to execute a malicious binary with SYSTEM privileges via a low-privileged user account. To exploit this, a low-privileged user must change the service configuration or overwr…
- CVE-2021-37911HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-08-30
The management interface of BenQ smart wireless conference projector does not properly control user's privilege. Attackers can access any system directory of this device through the interface and execute arbitrary commands if he enters the…
- CVE-2021-24602HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-08-23
The HM Multiple Roles WordPress plugin before 1.3 does not have any access control to prevent low privilege users to set themselves as admin via their profile page
- CVE-2020-24576HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-08-12
Netskope Client through 77 allows low-privileged users to elevate their privileges to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.
- CVE-2021-22517HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-08-05
A potential unauthorized privilege escalation vulnerability has been identified in Micro Focus Data Protector. The vulnerability affects versions 10.10, 10.20, 10.30, 10.40, 10.50, 10.60, 10.70, 10.80, 10.0 and 10.91. A privileged user may…
- CVE-2019-14453HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-08-03
An issue was discovered in Comelit "App lejos de casa (web)" 2.8.0. It allows privilege escalation via modified domus and logged fields, related to js/bridge.min.js and login.json. For example, an attacker can achieve high privileges (inst…
- CVE-2021-34802HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-07-30
A failure in resetting the security context in some transaction actions in Neo4j Graph Database 4.2 and 4.3 could allow authenticated users to execute commands with elevated privileges.
- CVE-2021-29736HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-07-30
IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 could allow a remote user to gain elevated privileges on the system. IBM X-Force ID: 201300.
- CVE-2020-18171HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-07-26
TechSmith Snagit 19.1.0.2653 uses Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) which can allow attackers to obfuscate and embed crafted files used to escalate privileges. NOTE: This implies that Snagit's use of OLE is a security vulnerability unto i…
- CVE-2021-37394HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-07-26
In RPCMS v1.8 and below, attackers can interact with API and change variable "role" to "admin" to achieve admin user registration.
- CVE-2021-32739HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-07-15
Icinga is a monitoring system which checks the availability of network resources, notifies users of outages, and generates performance data for reporting. From version 2.4.0 through version 2.12.4, a vulnerability exists that may allow pri…
- CVE-2020-27362HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-07-01
An issue exists within the SSH console of Akkadian Provisioning Manager 4.50.02 which allows a low-level privileged user to escape the web configuration file editor and escalate privileges.
- CVE-2021-27661HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-07-01
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could give an authenticated Facility Explorer SNC Series Supervisory Controller (F4-SNC) user an unintended level of access to the controller’s file system, allowing them to access or modify …
- CVE-2021-28830HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-06-29
The TIBCO Spotfire Server and TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R components of TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R - Server Edition, TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R - Server Edition, TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R - Server Edit…
- CVE-2021-23275HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-06-29
The Windows Installation component of TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R - Server Edition, TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R - Server Edition, TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R - Server Edition, TIBCO Spotfire Analytics Platfor…
- CVE-2021-33538HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-06-25
In Weidmueller Industrial WLAN devices in multiple versions an exploitable improper access control vulnerability exists in the iw_webs account settings functionality. A specially crafted user name entry can cause the overwrite of an existi…
- CVE-2021-23999HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-06-24
If a Blob URL was loaded through some unusual user interaction, it could have been loaded by the System Principal and granted additional privileges that should not be granted to web content. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 78.10, …
- CVE-2021-24354HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-06-14
A lack of capability checks and insufficient nonce check on the AJAX action in the Simple 301 Redirects by BetterLinks WordPress plugin before 2.0.4, made it possible for authenticated users to install arbitrary plugins on vulnerable sites.
- CVE-2021-29754HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-06-11
IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 is vulnerable to a privilege escalation vulnerability when using the SAML Web Inbound Trust Association Interceptor (TAI). IBM X-Force ID: 202006.
- CVE-2021-33205HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-06-11
Western Digital EdgeRover before 0.25 has an escalation of privileges vulnerability where a low privileged user could load malicious content into directories with higher privileges, because of how Node.js is used. An attacker can gain admi…
- CVE-2021-28814HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-06-11
An improper access control vulnerability has been reported to affect QNAP NAS. If exploited, this vulnerability allows remote attackers to compromise the security of the software. This issue affects: QNAP Systems Inc. Helpdesk versions pri…
- CVE-2021-31928HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-06-10
Annex Cloud Loyalty Experience Platform <2021.1.0.1 allows any authenticated attacker to escalate privileges to superadministrator. It was fixed in v2021.1.0.2.
- CVE-2021-33356HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-06-09
Multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities in RaspAP 1.5 to 2.6.5 could allow an authenticated remote attacker to inject arbitrary commands to /installers/common.sh component that can result in remote command execution with root privile…
- CVE-2021-27657HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-06-04
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could give an authenticated Metasys user an unintended level of access to the server file system, allowing them to access or modify system files by sending specifically crafted web messages to …
- CVE-2021-24289HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-05-17
There is functionality in the Store Locator Plus for WordPress plugin through 5.5.14 that made it possible for authenticated users to update their user meta data to become an administrator on any site using the plugin.
- CVE-2021-1401HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-05-06
Multiple vulnerabilities in the web-based management interface of certain Cisco Small Business 100, 300, and 500 Series Wireless Access Points could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to obtain sensitive information from or inject arb…
- CVE-2021-1400HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-05-06
Multiple vulnerabilities in the web-based management interface of certain Cisco Small Business 100, 300, and 500 Series Wireless Access Points could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to obtain sensitive information from or inject arb…
- CVE-2021-25167HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-04-29
A remote unauthorized access vulnerability was discovered in Aruba AirWave Management Platform version(s) prior to 8.2.12.1. Aruba has released patches for AirWave Management Platform that address this security vulnerability.
- CVE-2021-28269HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-04-27
Soyal Technology 701Client 9.0.1 is vulnerable to Insecure permissions via client.exe binary with Authenticated Users group with Full permissions.
- CVE-2021-20695HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-04-26
Improper following of a certificate's chain of trust vulnerability in DAP-1880AC firmware version 1.21 and earlier allows a remote authenticated attacker to gain root privileges via unspecified vectors.
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