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 62 of 109
- CVE-2020-1540HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Backup Engine improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then run a speci…
- CVE-2020-1539HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Backup Engine improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then run a speci…
- CVE-2020-1536HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Backup Engine improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then run a speci…
- CVE-2020-1535HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Backup Engine improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then run a speci…
- CVE-2020-1534HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Backup Service improperly handles file operations. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then r…
- CVE-2020-1526HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Network Connection Broker improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then…
- CVE-2020-1524HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Speech Shell Components improperly handle memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then ru…
- CVE-2020-1522HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Speech Runtime improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then run a spec…
- CVE-2020-1521HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Speech Runtime improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then run a spec…
- CVE-2020-1519HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows UPnP Device Host improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then run a sp…
- CVE-2020-1518HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows File Server Resource Management Service improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attac…
- CVE-2020-1517HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows File Server Resource Management Service improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attac…
- CVE-2020-1516HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Work Folders Service improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then run …
- CVE-2020-1515HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Telephony Server improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then run a sp…
- CVE-2020-1513HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows CSC Service improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then run a special…
- CVE-2020-1511HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service improperly handles file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run processes in an elevated context. …
- CVE-2020-1509HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) when an authenticated attacker sends a specially crafted authentication request. A remote attacker who successfully exploited this vul…
- CVE-2020-1490HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Storage Service improperly handles file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain elevated privileges on the victim system. To exploit the vulne…
- CVE-2020-1489HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows CSC Service improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then run a special…
- CVE-2020-1486HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then in…
- CVE-2020-1484HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Work Folders Service improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then run …
- CVE-2020-1480HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An att…
- CVE-2020-1479HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when DirectX improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; v…
- CVE-2020-1475HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the srmsvc.dll handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code with elevated permissions. To exploit the vulnerability, a…
- CVE-2020-1470HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Work Folders Service improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then run …
- CVE-2020-1377HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Kernel API improperly handles registry objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain elevated privileges on a targeted system. A local…
- CVE-2020-1337HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-17
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Print Spooler service improperly allows arbitrary writing to the file system. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code with elevated …
- CVE-2020-24331HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-13
An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges, the tss user still has read and write access to the /etc/tcsd.conf file (which contains various settings related to this daemon).
- CVE-2020-24330HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-13
An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges instead of by the tss user, it fails to drop the root gid privilege when no longer needed.
- CVE-2020-0261HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-13
In C2 flame devices, there is a possible bypass of seccomp due to a missing configuration file. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitatio…
- CVE-2020-8736HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-13
Improper access control in subsystem for the Intel(R) Computing Improvement Program before version 2.4.5718 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
- CVE-2020-0259HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-11
In android_verity_ctr of dm-android-verity.c, there is a possible way to modify a dm-verity protected filesystem due to improperly used crypto. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed…
- CVE-2020-0257HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-11
In SpecializeCommon of com_android_internal_os_Zygote.cpp, there is a permissions bypass due to an incomplete cleanup. This could lead to local escalation of privilege in isolated processes with no additional execution privileges needed. U…
- CVE-2020-0108HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-11
In postNotification of ServiceRecord.java, there is a possible bypass of foreground process restrictions due to an uncaught exception. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User in…
- CVE-2020-9078HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-10
FusionCompute 8.0.0 have local privilege escalation vulnerability. A local, authenticated attacker could perform specific operations to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploitation may cause the attacker to obtain a higher privilege…
- CVE-2019-20001HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-04
An issue was discovered in RICOH Streamline NX Client Tool and RICOH Streamline NX PC Client that allows attackers to escalate local privileges.
- CVE-2020-5617HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-04
Privilege escalation vulnerability in SKYSEA Client View Ver.12.200.12n to 15.210.05f allows an attacker to obtain unauthorized privileges and modify/obtain sensitive information or perform unintended operations via unspecified vectors.
- CVE-2019-19455HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-08-03
Wowza Streaming Engine before 4.8.5 has Insecure Permissions which may allow a local attacker to escalate privileges in / usr / local / WowzaStreamingEngine / manager / bin / in the Linux version of the server by writing arbitrary commands…
- CVE-2020-14162HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-07-30
An issue was discovered in Pi-Hole through 5.0. The local www-data user has sudo privileges to execute the pihole core script as root without a password, which could allow an attacker to obtain root access via shell metacharacters to this …
- CVE-2020-12620HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-07-30
Pi-hole 4.4 allows a user able to write to /etc/pihole/dns-servers.conf to escalate privileges through command injection (shell metacharacters after an IP address).
- CVE-2020-1465HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-07-14
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft OneDrive that allows file deletion in arbitrary locations.To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system, aka 'Microsoft OneDrive Elevation of …
- CVE-2020-1463HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-07-14
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the SharedStream Library handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows SharedStream Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.
- CVE-2020-1438HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-07-14
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Network Connections Service handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Network Connections Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CV…
- CVE-2020-1437HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-07-14
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Network Location Awareness Service handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Network Location Awareness Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.
- CVE-2020-1431HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-07-14
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows AppX Deployment Extensions improperly performs privilege management, resulting in access to system files.To exploit this vulnerability, an authenticated attacker would need to…
- CVE-2020-1430HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-07-14
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows UPnP Device Host improperly handles memory.To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system, aka 'Windows UPnP Device Host El…
- CVE-2020-1429HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-07-14
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows Error Reporting manager improperly handles a process crash, aka 'Windows Error Reporting Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.
- CVE-2020-1428HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-07-14
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Network Connections Service handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Network Connections Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CV…
- CVE-2020-1427HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-07-14
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Network Connections Service handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Network Connections Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CV…
- CVE-2020-1424HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82020-07-14
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Update Stack fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka 'Windows Update Stack Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.
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