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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- CVE-2021-40124HIGHCVSS 6.7EG 7.82021-11-04
A vulnerability in the Network Access Manager (NAM) module of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Windows could allow an authenticated, local attacker to escalate privileges on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to incor…
- CVE-2025-55582HIGHCVSS 6.6EG 7.82025-08-27
D-Link DCS-825L firmware v1.08.01 contains a vulnerability in the watchdog script `mydlink-watch-dog.sh`, which blindly respawns binaries such as `dcp` and `signalc` without verifying integrity, authenticity, or permissions. An attacker wi…
- CVE-2020-3393HIGHCVSS 6.0EG 7.82020-09-24
A vulnerability in the application-hosting subsystem of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root on an affected device. The attacker could execute IOS XE commands outside the applicat…
- CVE-2023-21421HIGHCVSS 5.9EG 7.82023-02-09
Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges vulnerability in KnoxCustomManagerService prior to SMR Jan-2023 Release 1 allows attacker to access device SIM PIN.
- CVE-2021-25365HIGHCVSS 5.9EG 7.82021-04-09
An improper exception control in softsimd prior to SMR APR-2021 Release 1 allows unprivileged applications to access the API in softsimd.
- CVE-2026-66782HIGHCVSS 5.8EG 7.82026-08-18
A flaw was found in the Submariner operator. This vulnerability allows for the exposure of a long-lived broker service account (SA) bearer token within the Submariner Custom Resource (CR) specification. An attacker with access to the clust…
- CVE-2025-23007HIGHCVSS 5.5EG 7.82025-01-30
A vulnerability in the NetExtender Windows client log export function allows unauthorized access to sensitive Windows system files, potentially leading to privilege escalation.
- CVE-2022-21879HIGHCVSS 5.5EG 7.82022-01-11
Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-3462HIGHCVSS 5.5EG 7.82021-04-13
A privilege escalation vulnerability in Lenovo Power Management Driver for Windows 10, prior to version 1.67.17.54, that could allow unauthorized access to the driver's device object.
- CVE-2017-20107HIGHCVSS 5.3EG 7.82022-06-28
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in ShadeYouVPN.com Client 2.0.1.11. Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to improper privilege management. Local access is required to approach this attack.…
- CVE-2022-21946HIGHCVSS 5.3EG 7.82022-03-16
A Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in the sudoers configuration in cscreen of openSUSE Factory allows any local users to gain the privileges of the tty and dialout groups and access and manipulate any run…
- CVE-2018-10906HIGHCVSS 5.3EG 7.82018-07-24
In fuse before versions 2.9.8 and 3.x before 3.2.5, fusermount is vulnerable to a restriction bypass when SELinux is active. This allows non-root users to mount a FUSE file system with the 'allow_other' mount option regardless of whether '…
- CVE-2017-13165HIGHCVSS 5.3EG 7.82017-12-06
An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel file system. Product: Android. Versions: Android kernel. Android ID A-31269937.
- CVE-2023-0192HIGHCVSS 4.7EG 7.82023-04-01
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer handler, where improper privilege management can lead to escalation of privileges and information disclosure.
- CVE-2026-93017HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72026-10-08
The `insights-operator-gather` ClusterRole grants the operator's service account read access to secrets in the core API group with no namespace or resourceNames restriction — therefore, access to every secret in every namespace in the cl…
- CVE-2026-76266HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72026-10-07
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.4.3, 10.2.7, 10.0.10, and 9.4.15 on Linux, a local user who can run commands as the user account running Splunk Enterprise could cause an affected Linux package upgrade to run attacker-controlled oper…
- CVE-2026-87183HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72026-09-15
Vulnerability in the Oracle Hyperion Financial Management product of Oracle Hyperion (component: Security). The supported version that is affected is 11.2.26.0.000. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with lo…
- CVE-2026-65831HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72026-09-15
ArcadeDB is a Multi-Model DBMS. Prior to 26.7.1, a reader-role user can submit POST /api/v1/command/{database} with language: js because PolyglotQueryEngine.command, PolyglotQueryEngine.analyze, and PolyglotQueryEngine.registerFunctions do…
- CVE-2026-70942HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72026-08-18
Vulnerability in the Oracle Hyperion Financial Management product of Oracle Hyperion (component: Security). The supported version that is affected is 11.2.25.0.000. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with net…
- CVE-2026-70828HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72026-08-18
Vulnerability in the Oracle Hyperion Financial Management product of Oracle Hyperion (component: Security). The supported version that is affected is 11.2.25.0.000. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with net…
- CVE-2026-73122HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72026-08-12
A flaw was found in the multicloud-operators-channel component of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (RHACM). This vulnerability allows a compromised agent from a managed cluster to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information. Speci…
- CVE-2026-73218HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72026-08-11
Cursor is a code editor built for programming with AI. Prior to 3.0.0, Cursor IDE for macOS allows an agent running in Auto-Run Sandbox mode, when Docker Desktop and the Dev Containers CLI are installed, to launch a privileged container an…
- CVE-2026-33821HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72026-05-12
Improper privilege management in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Insights allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
- CVE-2025-67826HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72025-12-22
An issue was discovered in K7 Ultimate Security 17.0.2045. A Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the K7 Ultimate Security antivirus can be exploited by a local unprivileged user on default installations of the product. Insecu…
- CVE-2025-12405HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72025-11-10
An improper privilege management vulnerability was found in Looker Studio. It impacted all JDBC-based connectors. A Looker Studio user with report view access could make a copy of the report and execute arbitrary SQL that would run on th…
- CVE-2025-50069HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72025-07-15
Vulnerability in the Java VM component of Oracle Database Server. Supported versions that are affected are 19.3-19.27 and 21.3-21.18. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker having Create Session, Create Procedure…
- CVE-2024-4555HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72024-08-28
Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in OpenText NetIQ Access Manager allows user account impersonation in specific scenario. This issue affects NetIQ Access Manager before 5.0.4.1 and before 5.1
- CVE-2024-6240HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72024-06-21
Improper privilege management vulnerability in Parallels Desktop Software, which affects versions earlier than 19.3.0. An attacker could add malicious code in a script and populate the BASH_ENV environment variable with the path to the mal…
- CVE-2024-4545HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72024-05-14
All versions of EnterpriseDB Postgres Advanced Server (EPAS) from 15.0 prior to 15.7.0 and from 16.0 prior to 16.3.0 may allow users using edbldr to bypass role permissions from pg_read_server_files. This could allow low privilege users t…
- CVE-2024-3507HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72024-05-08
Improper privilege management vulnerability in Lunar software that affects versions 6.0.2 through 6.6.0. This vulnerability allows an attacker to perform a secondary process injection into the Lunar application and abuse those rights to ac…
- CVE-2023-36496HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72024-02-01
Delegated Admin Privilege virtual attribute provider plugin, when enabled, allows an authenticated user to elevate their permissions in the Directory Server.
- CVE-2023-6998HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72023-12-30
Improper privilege management vulnerability in CoolKit Technology eWeLink on Android and iOS allows application lockscreen bypass.This issue affects eWeLink before 5.2.0.
- CVE-2023-1326HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72023-04-13
A privilege escalation attack was found in apport-cli 2.26.0 and earlier which is similar to CVE-2023-26604. If a system is specially configured to allow unprivileged users to run sudo apport-cli, less is configured as the pager, and the t…
- CVE-2022-2249HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72022-10-12
Privilege escalation related vulnerabilities were discovered in Avaya Aura Communication Manager that may allow local administrative users to escalate their privileges. This issue affects Communication Manager versions 8.0.0.0 through 8.1.…
- CVE-2022-2975HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72022-10-06
A vulnerability related to weak permissions was detected in Avaya Aura Application Enablement Services web application, allowing an administrative user to modify accounts leading to execution of arbitrary code as the root user. This issue …
- CVE-2022-26113HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72022-07-19
An execution with unnecessary privileges vulnerability [CWE-250] in FortiClientWindows 7.0.0 through 7.0.3, 6.4.0 through 6.4.7, 6.2.0 through 6.2.9, 6.0.0 through 6.0.10 may allow a local attacker to perform an arbitrary file write on the…
- CVE-2022-29218HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72022-05-13
RubyGems is a package registry used to supply software for the Ruby language ecosystem. An ordering mistake in the code that accepts gem uploads allowed some gems (with platforms ending in numbers, like `arm64-darwin-21`) to be temporarily…
- CVE-2022-23263HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72022-02-07
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2020-7334HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72020-10-15
Improper privilege assignment vulnerability in the installer McAfee Application and Change Control (MACC) prior to 8.3.2 allows local administrators to change or update the configuration settings via a carefully constructed MSI configured …
- CVE-2020-7254HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72020-03-12
Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the command line interface in McAfee Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) 4.x prior to 4.8.2 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via improper access controls on the sudo command.
- CVE-2019-16777HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72019-12-13
Versions of the npm CLI prior to 6.13.4 are vulnerable to an Arbitrary File Overwrite. It fails to prevent existing globally-installed binaries to be overwritten by other package installations. For example, if a package was installed globa…
- CVE-2019-10716HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72019-10-21
An Information Disclosure issue in Verodin Director 3.5.3.1 and earlier reveals usernames and passwords of integrated security technologies via a /integrations.json JSON REST API request.
- CVE-2019-10144HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72019-06-03
rkt through version 1.30.0 does not isolate processes in containers that are run with `rkt enter`. Processes run with `rkt enter` are given all capabilities during stage 2 (the actual environment in which the applications run). Compromised…
- CVE-2017-10000HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72017-08-08
Vulnerability in the Oracle Hospitality Reporting and Analytics component of Oracle Hospitality Applications (subcomponent: Reporting). Supported versions that are affected are 8.5.1 and 9.0.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low p…
- CVE-2025-7044HIGHCVSS 6.5EG 7.72025-12-03
An Improper Input Validation vulnerability exists in the user websocket handler of MAAS. An authenticated, unprivileged attacker can intercept a user.update websocket request and inject the is_superuser property set to true. The server imp…
- CVE-2024-44147HIGHCVSS 5.5EG 7.72024-09-17
This issue was addressed through improved state management. This issue is fixed in iOS 18 and iPadOS 18. An app may gain unauthorized access to Local Network.
- CVE-2026-106492HIGHCVSS 7.6EG 7.62026-10-06
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals. Prior to 0.16.1 and 0.17.8, the @backstage/backend-defaults package is affected by improper preservation of access restrictions during service credential delegation. An externa…
- CVE-2026-100578HIGHCVSS 7.6EG 7.62026-09-26
OpenClaw (npm package `openclaw`) before 2026.7.1 fails to restrict owner-only infrastructure tools exposed through the chat.send endpoint. In Gateway deployments using authentication modes that honor caller identity and narrower operator …
- CVE-2026-73714HIGHCVSS 7.6EG 7.62026-09-01
A sensitive information disclosure vulnerability exists in the API of HPE Networking Fabric Composer. Successful exploitation could allow an authenticated low privilege operator user to access data beyond what is authorized by the user's e…
- CVE-2026-70960HIGHCVSS 7.6EG 7.62026-08-18
Vulnerability in the Oracle Hyperion Financial Management product of Oracle Hyperion (component: Security). The supported version that is affected is 11.2.25.0.000. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with net…
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