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 32 of 108
- CVE-2026-46617HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72026-05-21
Fission is an open-source, Kubernetes-native serverless framework that simplifies the deployment of functions and applications on Kubernetes. Prior to version 1.23.0, Fission runtime pods were created with ServiceAccountName: fission-fetch…
- CVE-2025-67905HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72026-02-17
Malwarebytes AdwCleaner before v.8.7.0 runs as Administrator and performs an insecure log file delete operation in which the target location is user-controllable, allowing a non-admin user to escalate privileges to SYSTEM via a symbolic li…
- CVE-2025-12952HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72025-12-10
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Google Cloud's Dialogflow CX. Dialogflow agent developers with Webhook editor permission are able to configure Webhooks using Dialogflow service agent access token authentication. This allow…
- CVE-2025-10657HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72025-09-26
In a hardened Docker environment, with Enhanced Container Isolation ( ECI https://docs.docker.com/enterprise/security/hardened-desktop/enhanced-container-isolation/ ) enabled, an administrator can utilize the command restrictions feature …
- CVE-2025-37101HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72025-06-26
A potential security vulnerability has been identified in HPE OneView for VMware vCenter (OV4VC). This vulnerability could be exploited allowing an attacker with read only privilege to cause Vertical Privilege Escalation (operator can perf…
- CVE-2024-8100HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72025-05-08
On affected versions of the Arista CloudVision Portal (CVP on-prem), the time-bound device onboarding token can be used to gain admin privileges on CloudVision.
- CVE-2025-47420HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72025-05-06
266 vulnerability in Crestron Automate VX allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects Automate VX: from 5.6.8161.21536 through 6.4.0.49.
- CVE-2024-55954HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72025-01-16
OpenObserve is a cloud-native observability platform. A vulnerability in the user management endpoint `/api/{org_id}/users/{email_id}` allows an "Admin" role user to remove a "Root" user from the organization. This violates the intended pr…
- CVE-2020-11846HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72024-08-21
A vulnerability found in OpenText Privileged Access Manager that issues a token. on successful issuance of the token, a cookie gets set that allows unrestricted access to all the application resources. This issue affects Privileged Access…
- CVE-2023-38292HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72024-04-22
Certain software builds for the TCL 20XE Android device contain a vulnerable, pre-installed app with a package name of com.tct.gcs.hiddenmenuproxy (versionCode='2', versionName='v11.0.1.0.0201.0') that allows local third-party apps to prog…
- CVE-2023-3699HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72023-08-22
An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability was found in ASUSTOR Data Master (ADM) allows an unprivileged local users to modify the storage devices configuration. Affected products and versions include: ADM 4.0.6.RIS1, 4.1.0 and below a…
- CVE-2023-34120HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72023-06-13
Improper privilege management in Zoom for Windows, Zoom Rooms for Windows, and Zoom VDI for Windows clients before 5.14.0 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable an escalation of privilege via local access. Users may potenti…
- CVE-2023-21777HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72023-02-14
Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2020-25582HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72021-03-26
In FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE before r369334, 11.4-STABLE before r369335, 12.2-RELEASE before p4 and 11.4-RELEASE before p8 when a process, such as jexec(8) or killall(1), calls jail_attach(2) to enter a jail, the jailed root can attach to it usi…
- CVE-2020-26072HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72020-11-18
A vulnerability in the SOAP API of Cisco IoT Field Network Director (FND) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to access and modify information on devices that belong to a different domain. The vulnerability is due to insufficient…
- CVE-2018-0436HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72018-10-05
A vulnerability in Cisco Webex Teams, formerly Cisco Spark, could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to view and modify data for an organization other than their own organization. The vulnerability exists because the affected software…
- CVE-2026-85954HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62026-10-12
Progress MarkLogic Server 12.x releases before 12.1.0 and 11.x releases before 11.3.7 can evaluate user-controlled values supplied to certain higher-order XQuery functions in an elevated security context, which could result in privilege es…
- CVE-2026-102317HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62026-09-29
Improper privilege management in Mojo in Google Chrome on on Windows prior to 154.0.8037.92 allowed a local attacker to potentially execute arbitrary code outside the sandbox via a local program. (Chromium security severity: High)
- CVE-2026-87273HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62026-09-15
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The supported version that is affected is 7.2.16. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastruc…
- CVE-2026-85979HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62026-09-11
Affected versions of Puppet Enterprise contain a command injection vulnerability. An authenticated user with Puppet administrative privileges can inject arbitrary shell commands by providing a specially crafted value for this parameter, wh…
- CVE-2026-84830HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62026-09-03
SEPPmail Secure Email Gateway before 15.0.7 contains a command injection vulnerability that allows authenticated administrators to execute commands with elevated privileges.
- CVE-2026-81818HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62026-08-27
Affected versions of Flowintel contain an authorization flaw in the administrative user-edit API. The existing authorization check correctly prevented an organization administrator from editing users in another organization, but it did n…
- CVE-2026-73664HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62026-08-13
FreePBX is an open source IP PBX. From 17.0.5.34 until 17.0.11, the publicKeySave AJAX endpoint in Backup.class.php accepts an authenticated administrator's SSH public key and appends it to /home/asterisk/.ssh/authorized_keys for the aster…
- CVE-2026-22536HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62026-01-07
The absence of permissions control for the user XXX allows the current configuration in the sudoers file to escalate privileges without any restrictions
- CVE-2025-34251HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62025-10-07
Tesla Telematics Control Unit (TCU) firmware prior to v2025.14 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability. The TCU runs the Android Debug Bridge (adbd) as root and, despite a “lockdown” check that disables adb shell, still permits…
- CVE-2025-4681HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62025-06-10
Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in upKeeper Solutions upKeeper Instant Privilege Access allows Privilege Abuse.This issue affects upKeeper Instant Privilege Access: before 1.4.0.
- CVE-2025-1424HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62025-03-04
A privilege escalation vulnerability in PocketBook InkPad Color 3 allows attackers to escalate to root privileges if they gain physical access to the device. This issue affects InkPad Color 3 in version U743k3.6.8.3671.
- CVE-2024-11218HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62025-01-22
A vulnerability was found in `podman build` and `buildah.` This issue occurs in a container breakout by using --jobs=2 and a race condition when building a malicious Containerfile. SELinux might mitigate it, but even with SELinux on, it st…
- CVE-2023-41957HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62024-05-17
Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in smp7, wp.Insider Simple Membership allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects Simple Membership: from n/a through 4.3.4.
- CVE-2023-41954HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62024-05-17
Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in ProfilePress Membership Team ProfilePress allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects ProfilePress: from n/a through 4.13.1.
- CVE-2023-33966HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62023-05-31
Deno is a runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript. In deno 1.34.0 and deno_runtime 0.114.0, outbound HTTP requests made using the built-in `node:http` or `node:https` modules are incorrectly not checked against the network permission allow l…
- CVE-2022-3369HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62022-11-01
An Improper Access Control vulnerability in the bdservicehost.exe component, as used in Bitdefender Engines for Windows, allows an attacker to delete privileged registry keys by pointing a Registry symlink to a privileged key. This issue a…
- CVE-2021-30355HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62021-09-01
Amazon Kindle e-reader prior to and including version 5.13.4 improperly manages privileges, allowing the framework user to elevate privileges to root.
- CVE-2020-16875HIGHCVSS 8.4EG 8.62020-09-11
<p>A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Exchange server due to improper validation of cmdlet arguments.</p> <p>An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the Sys…
- CVE-2026-85953HIGHCVSS 8.5EG 8.52026-10-12
Progress MarkLogic Server 12.x releases before 12.1.0 and 11.x releases before 11.3.7 contain privileged legacy InfoStudio modules that do not sufficiently validate user-controlled file paths and user-context values. Exploitation could res…
- CVE-2026-104854HIGHCVSS 8.5EG 8.52026-10-02
Nx is a monorepo solution for TypeScript and polyglot codebases. From 14.6.0 until 22.7.9 and 23.1.2, Nx creates Unix domain sockets for its daemon and isolated plugin workers in shared temporary locations without owner-only directory and …
- CVE-2026-92958HIGHCVSS 8.5EG 8.52026-09-17
vm2 through 3.11.6 contains a builtin-module denylist bypass in NodeVM. When the embedder uses the builtin wildcard together with negative entries (e.g. require: { builtin: ['*', '-fs', '-child_process'] }), negative entries are matched by…
- CVE-2026-83451HIGHCVSS 8.5EG 8.52026-09-15
Vulnerability in the Oracle Product Workbench product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Internal Operations). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.15. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker …
- CVE-2026-83272HIGHCVSS 8.5EG 8.52026-09-15
Vulnerability in the Oracle Text component of Oracle Database Server. Supported versions that are affected are 19.3-19.32, 21.3-21.23 and 23.4.0-23.26.3. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker having Create Ind…
- CVE-2026-12518HIGHCVSS 8.5EG 8.52026-09-14
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Logitech Logi Options+ updater service on Windows allows a low-privileged local user to execute arbitrary code as SYSTEM.
- CVE-2026-12858HIGHCVSS 8.5EG 8.52026-09-09
Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in ESET AV Remover (standalone) allows Privilege Escalation via especially crafted RPC.
- CVE-2026-18759HIGHCVSS 8.5EG 8.52026-08-04
The background service of ABP or AES runs as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM and implements a file-based inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism protected by AES encryption. Because the encryption key file is readable by standard users and protect…
- CVE-2026-10610HIGHCVSS 8.5EG 8.52026-07-24
Local privilege escalation potentially allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user.
- CVE-2026-7483HIGHCVSS 8.5EG 8.52026-07-24
Local privilege escalation potentially allowed an attacker to write an arbitrary file with fully controlled content as a privileged user.
- CVE-2026-6423HIGHCVSS 8.5EG 8.52026-07-16
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in ESET Inspect Connector. The vulnerability was caused by improper authentication in an IPC channel.
- CVE-2026-53565HIGHCVSS 8.5EG 8.52026-07-14
Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Citrix Secure Access Client for Windows, Citrix Citrix Endpoint Analysis Client for Windows. This issue affects Secure Access Client for Windows: before 26.6.1.20; Citrix Endpoint Analysis Cl…
- CVE-2026-53645HIGHCVSS 8.5EG 8.52026-07-06
FOSSBilling is a free, open-source billing and client management system. Versions prior to 0.8.0 allow a low-privileged staff account to grant arbitrary module permissions to itself through the admin API, resulting in persistent privilege …
- CVE-2026-50570HIGHCVSS 8.5EG 8.52026-06-10
Fission is an open-source, Kubernetes-native serverless framework that simplifies the deployment of functions and applications on Kubernetes. Prior to version 1.25.0, Fission added PodSpec safety validation for tenant-facing Environment an…
- CVE-2026-9789HIGHCVSS 8.5EG 8.52026-05-28
A Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerability affects Acer NitroSense software versions prior to 3.01.3052. The vulnerability stems from the the PSAdminAgent service, which creates a Named Pipe with a weak Access Control List (ACL). Thi…
- CVE-2026-9489HIGHCVSS 8.5EG 8.52026-05-25
NitroSense 3.x before 3.01.3052 contains Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerability.The program exposes a Windows Named Pipe that uses a custom protocol to invoke internal functions. However, this Named Pipe is misconfigured, allowing …
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