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 31 of 108
- CVE-2020-35935HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 8.82021-01-01
The Advanced Access Manager plugin before 6.6.2 for WordPress allows privilege escalation on profile updates via the aam_user_roles POST parameter if Multiple Role support is enabled. (The mechanism for deciding whether a user was entitled…
- CVE-2022-4173HIGHCVSS 7.3EG 8.82022-12-06
A vulnerability within the malware removal functionality of Avast and AVG Antivirus allowed an attacker with write access to the filesystem, to escalate his privileges in certain scenarios. The issue was fixed with Avast and AVG Antivirus …
- CVE-2022-41835HIGHCVSS 7.3EG 8.82022-10-19
In F5OS-A version 1.x before 1.1.0 and F5OS-C version 1.x before 1.5.0, excessive file permissions in F5OS allows an authenticated local attacker to execute limited set of commands in a container and impact the F5OS controller.
- CVE-2022-3368HIGHCVSS 7.3EG 8.82022-10-17
A vulnerability within the Software Updater functionality of Avira Security for Windows allowed an attacker with write access to the filesystem, to escalate his privileges in certain scenarios. The issue was fixed with Avira Security versi…
- CVE-2016-15002HIGHCVSS 7.3EG 8.82022-06-09
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in MONyog Ultimate 6.63. This affects an unknown part of the component Cookie Handler. The manipulation of the argument HasServerEdit/IsAdmin leads to privilege escalation. It is…
- CVE-2022-30121HIGHCVSS 6.7EG 8.82022-09-23
The “LANDesk(R) Management Agent” service exposes a socket and once connected, it is possible to launch commands only for signed executables. This is a security bug that allows a limited user to get escalated admin privileges on their …
- CVE-2023-4293HIGHCVSS 6.5EG 8.82023-08-12
The Premium Packages - Sell Digital Products Securely plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 5.7.4 due to insufficient restriction on the 'wpdmpp_update_profile' function. This makes it…
- CVE-2023-4239HIGHCVSS 6.5EG 8.82023-08-09
The Real Estate Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 7.2 due to insufficient restriction on the 'rem_save_profile_front' function. This makes it possible for authenticated att…
- CVE-2017-2672HIGHCVSS 6.5EG 8.82018-06-21
A flaw was found in foreman before version 1.15 in the logging of adding and registering images. An attacker with access to the foreman log file would be able to view passwords for provisioned systems in the log file, allowing them to acce…
- CVE-2022-4281HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82022-12-05
A vulnerability has been found in Facepay 1.0 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /face-recognition-php/facepay-master/camera.php. The manipulation of the argument userId leads…
- CVE-2022-45069HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82022-11-17
Auth. (contributor+) Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Crowdsignal Dashboard plugin <= 3.0.9 on WordPress.
- CVE-2019-25071HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82022-06-25
A vulnerability was found in Apple iPhone up to 12.4.1. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is Siri. Playing an audio or video file might be able to initiate Siri on the same device which makes it possible to e…
- CVE-2017-20081HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82022-06-21
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Hindu Matrimonial Script. This affects an unknown part of the file /admin/reports.php. The manipulation leads to improper privilege management. It is possible to initiate the …
- CVE-2017-20080HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82022-06-21
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Hindu Matrimonial Script. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /admin/googleads.php. The manipulation leads to improper privilege management. …
- CVE-2017-20079HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82022-06-21
A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Hindu Matrimonial Script. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /admin/photo.php. The manipulation leads to improper privilege management. The attack can …
- CVE-2017-20078HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82022-06-21
A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Hindu Matrimonial Script. Affected is an unknown function of the file /admin/featured.php. The manipulation leads to improper privilege management. It is possible to launch the attac…
- CVE-2017-20077HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82022-06-21
A vulnerability was found in Hindu Matrimonial Script. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file /admin/success_story.php. The manipulation leads to improper privilege management. The attack may …
- CVE-2017-20076HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82022-06-21
A vulnerability was found in Hindu Matrimonial Script. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /admin/searchview.php. The manipulation leads to improper privilege management. The attack can be …
- CVE-2017-20075HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82022-06-21
A vulnerability was found in Hindu Matrimonial Script. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the file /admin/payment.php. The manipulation leads to improper privilege management. It is possible to initiate the…
- CVE-2017-20074HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82022-06-21
A vulnerability was found in Hindu Matrimonial Script and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /admin/newsletter1.php. The manipulation leads to improper privilege management. The attack …
- CVE-2017-20073HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82022-06-21
A vulnerability has been found in Hindu Matrimonial Script and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /admin/cms.php. The manipulation leads to improper privilege management. The atta…
- CVE-2017-20072HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82022-06-21
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Hindu Matrimonial Script. Affected is an unknown function of the file /admin/generalsettings.php. The manipulation leads to improper privilege management. It is possible to la…
- CVE-2017-20071HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82022-06-21
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Hindu Matrimonial Script. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file /admin/renewaldue.php. The manipulation leads to improper privilege management. The attac…
- CVE-2017-20070HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82022-06-21
A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Hindu Matrimonial Script. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /admin/communitymanagement.php. The manipulation leads to improper privilege management. The attack can be in…
- CVE-2017-20069HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82022-06-21
A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Hindu Matrimonial Script. This affects an unknown part of the file /admin/countrymanagement.php. The manipulation leads to improper privilege management. It is possible to initiate t…
- CVE-2017-20068HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82022-06-21
A vulnerability was found in Hindu Matrimonial Script. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /admin/usermanagement.php. The manipulation leads to improper privilege management. The …
- CVE-2018-25044HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82022-06-17
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in uTorrent. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Guest Account. The manipulation leads to privilege escalation. The attack may be initiated remotely.…
- CVE-2018-25041HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82022-06-17
A vulnerability was found in uTorrent. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component JSON RPC Server. The manipulation leads to privilege escalation. The attack may be launched remotel…
- CVE-2018-25040HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82022-06-17
A vulnerability was found in uTorrent Web. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component HTTP RPC Server. The manipulation leads to privilege escalation. The attack can be lau…
- CVE-2017-20038HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82022-06-11
A vulnerability was found in SICUNET Access Controller 0.32-05z and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file card_scan_decoder.php. The manipulation of the argument No/door leads to privilege…
- CVE-2017-20037HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82022-06-11
A vulnerability has been found in SICUNET Access Controller 0.32-05z and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument c leads to privilege escalation. The attack can b…
- CVE-2019-25068HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82022-06-09
A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Axios Italia Axios RE 1.7.0/7.0.0. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file REDefault.aspx of the component Connection Handler. The manipulation of the argument DBIDX leads to …
- CVE-2019-25066HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82022-06-09
A vulnerability has been found in ajenti 2.1.31 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component API. The manipulation leads to privilege escalation. The attack can be initiated remotely. The exploit has…
- CVE-2021-38539HIGHCVSS 6.3EG 8.82021-08-11
Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by privilege escalation. This affects D8500 before 1.0.3.44, R6400v2 before 1.0.2.66, R6700 before 1.0.2.6, R6700v3 before 1.0.2.66, R6900 before 1.0.2.4, R6900P before 1.3.2.126, R7000 before 1.0.9.42,…
- CVE-2022-4041HIGHCVSS 5.9EG 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 04.8.0 before 0…
- CVE-2022-23171HIGHCVSS 5.9EG 8.82022-06-21
AtlasVPN - Privilege Escalation Lack of proper security controls on named pipe messages can allow an attacker with low privileges to send a malicious payload and gain SYSTEM permissions on a windows computer where the AtlasVPN client is in…
- CVE-2021-43055HIGHCVSS 5.9EG 8.82022-01-11
The eFTL Server component of TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO eFTL - Community Edition, TIBCO eFTL - Developer Edition, and TIBCO eFTL - Enterprise Edition contains an easily exploitable vulnerability that allows clients to inherit the permissi…
- CVE-2022-2637HIGHCVSS 5.4EG 8.82022-10-06
Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Hitachi 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 04.8.0 b…
- CVE-2022-38070HIGHCVSS 5.4EG 8.82022-09-09
Privilege Escalation (subscriber+) vulnerability in Pop-up plugin <= 1.1.5 at WordPress.
- CVE-2022-39182HIGHCVSS 4.9EG 8.82023-01-12
H C Mingham-Smith Ltd - Tardis 2000 Privilege escalation.Version 1.6 is vulnerable to privilege escalation which may allow a malicious actor to gain system privileges.
- CVE-2022-43749HIGHCVSS 4.3EG 8.82022-10-26
Improper privilege management vulnerability in summary report management in Synology Presto File Server before 2.1.2-1601 allows remote authenticated users to bypass security constraint via unspecified vectors.
- CVE-2022-1548HIGHCVSS 3.7EG 8.82022-05-03
Mattermost Playbooks plugin 1.25 and earlier fails to properly restrict user-level permissions, which allows playbook members to escalate their membership privileges and perform actions restricted to playbook admins.
- CVE-2026-56733HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72026-09-25
Zammad is a web based open source helpdesk/customer support system. Prior to 7.0.2 and 7.1.0, this issue concerns a lack of discursive validation within the authorization cascade. It has been determined that the system-level enforcement of…
- CVE-2026-94381HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72026-09-21
MISP has a security issue that can let a user gain more access than their API key is supposed to allow. A read-only API key should only let someone view information. However, after logging in with such a key, a specific MISP function coul…
- CVE-2026-88817HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72026-09-16
An authenticated, non-guest user of Curiosity Workspace could enroll themselves as an administrator and member of an existing access group without an invitation or approval. It did not grant application-wide administrator privileges, an…
- CVE-2026-86195HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72026-09-05
grav-plugin-api versions before 1.0.20 contain a privilege escalation vulnerability in the InvitationsController where the stripSuperFlags() method only removes nested super flags but fails to strip dot-keyed equivalents like api.super. A …
- CVE-2026-75924HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72026-08-18
A flaw was found in managed-serviceaccount. A compromised addon-manager pod, due to its ClusterRole granting excessive permissions, can read any secret across all namespaces. Additionally, it can approve arbitrary Certificate Signing Reque…
- CVE-2026-60941HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72026-07-21
Vulnerability in the Oracle Service Fulfillment Manager product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Fulfillment Engine). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.15. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged a…
- CVE-2026-46804HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72026-06-17
Vulnerability in the Oracle WebCenter Content product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: Content Server). The supported version that is affected is 14.1.2.0.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with net…
- CVE-2026-44543HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72026-05-28
Local Path Provisioner provides a way for the Kubernetes users to utilize the local storage in each node. Prior to 0.0.36, a malicious user with permission to edit the local-path-config ConfigMap in the local-path-storage namespace can man…
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