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 30 of 108
- CVE-2018-11614HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82018-09-24
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations of Samsung Members Fixed in version 2.4.25. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in orde…
- CVE-2018-11786HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82018-09-18
In Apache Karaf prior to 4.2.0 release, if the sshd service in Karaf is left on so an administrator can manage the running instance, any user with rights to the Karaf console can pivot and read/write any file on the file system to which th…
- CVE-2018-1000648HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82018-08-20
LibreHealthIO lh-ehr version REL-2.0.0 contains a Authenticated Unrestricted File Write vulnerability in Patient file letter functions that can result in Write files with malicious content and may lead to remote code execution. This attack…
- CVE-2018-0613HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82018-07-26
NEC Platforms Calsos CSDX and CSDJ series products (CSDX 1.37210411 and earlier, CSDX(P) 4.37210411 and earlier, CSDX(D) 3.37210411 and earlier, CSDX(S) 2.37210411 and earlier, CSDJ-B 01.03.00 and earlier, CSDJ-H 01.03.00 and earlier, CSDJ…
- CVE-2018-0343HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82018-07-18
A vulnerability in the configuration and management service of the Cisco SD-WAN Solution could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with vmanage user privileges or cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on a…
- CVE-2016-9489HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82018-07-13
In ManageEngine Applications Manager 12 and 13 before build 13200, an authenticated user is able to alter all of their own properties, including own group, i.e. changing their group to one with higher privileges like "ADMIN". A user is als…
- CVE-2018-4845HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82018-06-26
A vulnerability has been identified in RAPIDLab 1200 systems / RAPIDPoint 400 systems / RAPIDPoint 500 systems (All versions_without_ use of Siemens Healthineers Informatics products), RAPIDLab 1200 Series (All versions < V3.3 _with_ Sieme…
- CVE-2018-11190HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82018-06-02
Quest DR Series Disk Backup software version before 4.0.3.1 allows privilege escalation (issue 2 of 6).
- CVE-2018-11323HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82018-05-22
An issue was discovered in Joomla! Core before 3.8.8. Inadequate checks allowed users to modify the access levels of user groups with higher permissions.
- CVE-2018-1000400HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82018-05-18
Kubernetes CRI-O version prior to 1.9 contains a Privilege Context Switching Error (CWE-270) vulnerability in the handling of ambient capabilities that can result in containers running with elevated privileges, allowing users abilities the…
- CVE-2018-8853HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82018-05-04
Philips Brilliance CT devices operate user functions from within a contained kiosk in a Microsoft Windows operating system. Windows boots by default with elevated Windows privileges, enabling a kiosk application, user, or an attacker to po…
- CVE-2018-10168HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82018-05-03
TP-Link EAP Controller and Omada Controller versions 2.5.4_Windows/2.6.0_Windows do not control privileges for usage of the Web API, allowing a low-privilege user to make any request as an Administrator. This is fixed in version 2.6.1_Wind…
- CVE-2018-10172HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82018-04-16
7-Zip through 18.01 on Windows implements the "Large memory pages" option by calling the LsaAddAccountRights function to add the SeLockMemoryPrivilege privilege to the user's account, which makes it easier for attackers to bypass intended …
- CVE-2017-0935HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82018-03-22
Ubiquiti Networks EdgeOS version 1.9.1.1 and prior suffer from an Improper Privilege Management vulnerability due to the lack of protection of the file system leading to sensitive information being exposed. An attacker with access to an op…
- CVE-2017-0934HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82018-03-22
Ubiquiti Networks EdgeOS version 1.9.1 and prior suffer from an Improper Privilege Management vulnerability due to the lack of protection of the file system leading to sensitive information being exposed. An attacker with access to an oper…
- CVE-2017-0932HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82018-03-22
Ubiquiti Networks EdgeOS version 1.9.1.1 and prior suffer from an Improper Privilege Management vulnerability due to the lack of validation on the input of the Feature functionality. An attacker with access to an operator (read-only) accou…
- CVE-2017-5736HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82018-03-20
An elevation of privilege in Intel Software Guard Extensions Platform Software Component before 1.9.105.42329 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code as administrator.
- CVE-2017-15536HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82018-02-05
An issue was discovered in Cloudera Data Science Workbench (CDSW) 1.x before 1.2.0. Several web application vulnerabilities allow malicious authenticated users of CDSW to escalate privileges in CDSW. CDSW users can exploit these vulnerabil…
- CVE-2018-5706HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82018-01-16
An issue was discovered in Octopus Deploy before 4.1.9. Any user with user editing permissions can modify teams to give themselves Administer System permissions even if they didn't have them, as demonstrated by use of the RoleEdit or TeamE…
- CVE-2018-4862HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82018-01-03
In Octopus Deploy versions 3.2.11 - 4.1.5 (fixed in 4.1.6), an authenticated user with ProcessEdit permission could reference an Azure account in such a way as to bypass the scoping restrictions, resulting in a potential escalation of priv…
- CVE-2017-11319HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82017-12-11
Perspective ICM Investigation & Case 5.1.1.16 allows remote authenticated users to modify access level permissions and consequently gain privileges by leveraging insufficient validation methods and missing cross server side checking mechan…
- CVE-2017-17384HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82017-12-07
ISPConfig 3.x before 3.1.9 allows remote authenticated users to obtain root access by creating a crafted cron job.
- CVE-2017-15013HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82017-10-13
OpenText Documentum Content Server (formerly EMC Documentum Content Server) through 7.3 contains the following design gap, which allows an authenticated user to gain superuser privileges: Content Server stores information about uploaded fi…
- CVE-2017-8448HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82017-09-29
An error was found in the permission model used by X-Pack Alerting 5.0.0 to 5.6.0 whereby users mapped to certain built-in roles could create a watch that results in that user gaining elevated privileges.
- CVE-2016-0732HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82017-09-07
The identity zones feature in Pivotal Cloud Foundry 208 through 229; UAA 2.0.0 through 2.7.3 and 3.0.0; UAA-Release 2 through 4, when configured with multiple identity zones; and Elastic Runtime 1.6.0 through 1.6.13 allows remote authentic…
- CVE-2017-11681HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82017-07-27
Incorrect Access Control vulnerability in Hashtopussy 0.4.0 allows remote authenticated users to execute actions that should only be available for administrative roles, as demonstrated by an action=createVoucher request to agents.php.
- CVE-2017-11361HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82017-07-17
Inteno routers have a JUCI ACL misconfiguration that allows the "user" account to read files, write to files, and add root SSH keys via JSON commands to ubus. (Exploitation is sometimes easy because the "user" password might be "user" or m…
- CVE-2017-4973HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82017-06-13
An issue was discovered in Cloud Foundry Foundation cf-release versions prior to v257; UAA release 2.x versions prior to v2.7.4.14, 3.6.x versions prior to v3.6.8, 3.9.x versions prior to v3.9.10, and other versions prior to v3.15.0; and U…
- CVE-2017-9324HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82017-06-12
In Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) 3.3.x through 3.3.16, 4.x through 4.0.23, and 5.x through 5.0.19, an attacker with agent permission is capable of opening a specific URL in a browser to gain administrative privileges / full access. Aft…
- CVE-2017-8438HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82017-06-05
Elastic X-Pack Security versions 5.0.0 to 5.4.0 contain a privilege escalation bug in the run_as functionality. This bug prevents transitioning into the specified user specified in a run_as request. If a role has been created using a templ…
- CVE-2017-7505HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82017-05-26
Foreman since version 1.5 is vulnerable to an incorrect authorization check due to which users with user management permission who are assigned to some organization(s) can do all operations granted by these permissions on all administrator…
- CVE-2017-8114HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82017-04-29
Roundcube Webmail allows arbitrary password resets by authenticated users. This affects versions before 1.0.11, 1.1.x before 1.1.9, and 1.2.x before 1.2.5. The problem is caused by an improperly restricted exec call in the virtualmin and s…
- CVE-2017-5671HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82017-03-29
Honeywell Intermec PM23, PM42, PM43, PC23, PC43, PD43, and PC42 industrial printers before 10.11.013310 and 10.12.x before 10.12.013309 have /usr/bin/lua installed setuid to the itadmin account, which allows local users to conduct a BusyBo…
- CVE-2017-5940HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82017-02-09
Firejail before 0.9.44.6 and 0.9.38.x LTS before 0.9.38.10 LTS does not comprehensively address dotfile cases during its attempt to prevent accessing user files with an euid of zero, which allows local users to conduct sandbox-escape attac…
- CVE-2014-1529HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82014-04-30
The Web Notification API in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5, Thunderbird before 24.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.26 allows remote attackers to bypass intended source-component restrictions and execute arbitrary JavaSc…
- CVE-2022-30620HIGHCVSS 8.2EG 8.82022-07-18
On Cellinx Camera with guest enabled, attacker with web access can elevate privileges to administrative: "1" to "0" privileges by changing the following cookie values from "is_admin", "showConfig". Administrative Privileges which allows ch…
- CVE-2014-125001HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.82022-05-24
A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Cardo Systems Scala Rider Q3. Affected is the file /cardo/api of the Cardo-Updater. Unauthenticated remote code execution with root permissions is possible. Firewalling or disabling …
- CVE-2022-24469HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.82022-03-09
Azure Site Recovery Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-1579HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.82021-08-25
A vulnerability in an API endpoint of Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) and Cisco Cloud Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (Cloud APIC) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with Administrator read…
- CVE-2026-76259HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 8.82026-08-19
In Splunk Enterprise for Windows versions below 10.4.2, 10.2.6, 10.0.9, 9.4.13, and 9.3.14, a local user with access to the Windows host could bind to the management port before Splunk Enterprise starts, intercept authentication tokens fro…
- CVE-2024-43199HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 8.82024-08-07
Nagios NDOUtils before 2.1.4 allows privilege escalation from nagios to root because certain executable files are owned by the nagios user.
- CVE-2024-22106HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 8.82024-07-02
Improper privilege management in Jungo WinDriver before 12.5.1 allows local attackers to escalate privileges, execute arbitrary code, or cause a Denial of Service (DoS).
- CVE-2023-41743HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 8.82023-08-31
Local privilege escalation due to insecure driver communication port permissions. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office (Windows) before build 40278, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent (Windows) before build…
- CVE-2022-45451HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 8.82023-08-31
Local privilege escalation due to insecure driver communication port permissions. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office (Windows) before build 40173, Acronis Agent (Windows) before build 30600, Acronis Cybe…
- CVE-2023-21561HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 8.82023-01-10
Microsoft Cryptographic Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-36954HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 8.82021-09-15
Windows Bind Filter Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-25650HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 8.82021-06-24
A privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in Avaya Aura Utility Services that may potentially allow a local user to execute specially crafted scripts as a privileged user. Affects all 7.x versions of Avaya Aura Utility Services
- CVE-2022-4441HIGHCVSS 7.6EG 8.82023-01-31
Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Hitachi Storage Plug-in for VMware vCenter allows remote authenticated users to cause privilege escalation. This issue affects Hitachi Storage Plug-in for VMware vCenter: from 04.9.0 before 0…
- CVE-2022-42438HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 8.82023-02-08
IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring 2.0 and 2.3 allows users without admin roles access to admin functions by specifying direct URL paths. IBM X-Force ID: 238210.
- CVE-2021-31958HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 8.82021-06-08
Windows NTLM Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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