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 87 of 99
- CVE-2026-16764MEDIUMCVSS 6.3EG 6.32026-07-23
A vulnerability was identified in OWASP DefectDojo 2.59.0. This issue affects the function UserSerializer of the file dojo/api_v2/serializers.py of the component API/Web. Such manipulation of the argument is_staff leads to improper privile…
- CVE-2026-16772HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12026-08-14
In Akaunting versions <= 3.1.21, low‑privileged authenticated users can modify their own account to assign themselves the admin role ID, granting full administrator privileges. This vulnerability is caused by a flaw in the `UpdateUser` j…
- CVE-2026-16850HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82026-08-19
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code due to command injection via crafted Router Advertisements.
- CVE-2026-16874HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82026-08-19
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a local attacker to obtain root privileges due to improper enforcement of RBAC authentication roles.
- CVE-2026-16904HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12026-08-12
IBM i 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, and 7.3 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands due to improper privilege management during monitor owner reassignment.
- CVE-2026-16923HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82026-08-20
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges due to improper privilege management.
- CVE-2026-16937HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82026-08-20
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges due to improper privilege management.
- CVE-2026-16991HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82026-08-20
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges due to improper handling of symbolic links.
- CVE-2026-16997HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82026-08-20
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary commands due to improper privilege management.
- CVE-2026-17074MEDIUMCVSS 4.3EG 4.32026-08-13
IBM i 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, and 7.3 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions due to improper privilege management.
- CVE-2026-17082HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82026-08-12
IBM i 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, and 7.3 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges due to improper validation of a client-supplied profile name.
- CVE-2026-17145CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82026-08-20
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code due to improper privilege management.
- CVE-2026-1726MEDIUMCVSS 4.8EG 4.82026-04-23
IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.2, 4.2.1, 5.0, and 5.1 enables privilege escalation, allowing unauthorized users to perform administrative operations after being demoted. Attackers could access sensitive data, modify sys…
- CVE-2026-17276CRITICALCVSS 9.9EG 9.92026-08-12
IBM i 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, and 7.3 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to escalate privileges due to improper authorization in the handling of high-authority threads.
- CVE-2026-1728CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82026-08-06
Tokens issued to a low-privileged user are not sufficiently restricted, allowing them to be used to access product-level Admin REST APIs. Exploitation of this vulnerability allows a low-privileged user to invoke the Admin REST APIs of WSO…
- CVE-2026-17438MEDIUMCVSS 4.4EG 4.42026-08-13
IBM i 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, and 7.3 could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information or modify data due to improper privilege management.
- CVE-2026-1750HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82026-02-15
The Ecwid by Lightspeed Ecommerce Shopping Cart plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 7.0.7. This is due to a missing capability check in the 'save_custom_user_profile_fields' func…
- CVE-2026-17533HIGHCVSS 7.2EG 7.22026-08-16
The All-in-One WP Migration and Backup WordPress plugin before 7.108 does not restrict its migration import functionality to network administrators on multisite installations, allowing an administrator of a single subsite to execute arbitr…
- CVE-2026-17744HIGHCVSS 7.1EG 7.12026-07-30
Inappropriate implementation in File Input in Google Chrome on Linux prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
- CVE-2026-17751HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82026-07-30
Inappropriate implementation in AdFilter in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
- CVE-2026-17816HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52026-07-30
Insufficient policy enforcement in Speech in Google Chrome on Android prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to perform privilege escalation via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security sev…
- CVE-2026-17863HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82026-07-30
Inappropriate implementation in Browser in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a local attacker to perform privilege escalation via a malicious file. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
- CVE-2026-17864HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82026-07-30
Inappropriate implementation in Updater in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a local attacker to perform OS-level privilege escalation via a malicious file. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
- CVE-2026-17868HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82026-07-30
Insufficient policy enforcement in USB in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker to perform privilege escalation via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
- CVE-2026-17877HIGHCVSS 8.4EG 8.42026-07-30
Inappropriate implementation in Chromoting in Google Chrome on Linux prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a local attacker to perform OS-level privilege escalation via malicious network traffic. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
- CVE-2026-17950HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82026-07-30
Inappropriate implementation in Safebrowsing in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via a malicious file. (Chromium security severity: Low)
- CVE-2026-17952HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52026-07-30
Inappropriate implementation in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted Chrome Extension. (Chromium secur…
- CVE-2026-17956HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82026-07-30
Inappropriate implementation in Scheduling in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
- CVE-2026-17969HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82026-07-30
Inappropriate implementation in Passwords in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
- CVE-2026-18039HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12026-08-14
The Essential Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before 6.7.2 does not prevent user-supplied registration fields from overwriting reserved account attributes, allowing unauthenticated attackers to register an account with an arbitrary …
- CVE-2026-18071HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82026-08-13
IBM i 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, and 7.3 could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges due to improper privilege management.
- CVE-2026-18101HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82026-08-13
IBM i 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, and 7.3 could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges due to improper management of thread authority swaps.
- CVE-2026-18107HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82026-07-28
A flaw was found in CRIU's handling of restartable sequences (rseq) during checkpoint/restore. A malicious process inside a container can register an rseq critical section that hijacks CRIU's parasite code injection during checkpoint, allo…
- CVE-2026-18193CRITICALCVSS 10.0EG 10.02026-08-13
IBM i 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, and 7.3 could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions due to improper validation of user-controlled addresses.
- CVE-2026-18249CRITICALCVSS 9.9EG 9.92026-08-13
IBM i 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, and 7.3 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges due to improper validation of pointers read from Java-controlled addresses.
- CVE-2026-18322HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82026-08-05
The Smart Popup by Supsystic plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.12.0. This is due to a permission map collision in the `havePermissions()` function in `classes/frame.php`, whe…
- CVE-2026-18366CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82026-08-12
The Events Manager WordPress plugin before 7.4.1 does not properly scope its capability mapping, discarding the access control decisions WordPress already made for unrelated privileged actions, which allows unauthenticated users to change…
- CVE-2026-18432CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82026-08-16
The Frontend Admin by DynamiApps plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.29.9. The vulnerability exists because `ActionUser::conditions_logic()` gates the `current_user_can('edit_u…
- CVE-2026-18606HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82026-08-03
A weakness has been identified in Razer RzUpdateService 1.10.14.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file C:\Program Files (x86)\Razer\RzUpdateEngineService\RzUpdateService.exe of the component Named Pipe Ha…
- CVE-2026-18702MEDIUMCVSS 6.4EG 6.42026-08-11
An issue in MongoDB Server could allow an authenticated user with limited, database-scoped privileges to modify diagnostic logging settings that affect the entire server rather than just the intended database. This could allow suppression …
- CVE-2026-18713HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82026-08-12
IBM i 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, and 7.3 s vulnerable to privilege escalation via Navigator for i. An authenticated user could elevate privileges to a root user to execute commands.
- 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-2026-18950HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82026-08-10
A flaw was found in odh-dashboard. An authenticated user of the dashboard can exploit a vulnerability related to how RoleBindings are created. The system does not properly validate the `roleRef` field, allowing a user to specify an arbitra…
- CVE-2026-19005MEDIUMCVSS 6.3EG 6.32026-08-06
A vulnerability was detected in nanocoai NanoClaw up to 2.0.64. Affected is the function handleCreateAgent of the file src/modules/agent-to-agent/create-agent.ts of the component Child-Agent Creation. Performing a manipulation results in i…
- CVE-2026-19007MEDIUMCVSS 6.3EG 6.32026-08-06
A vulnerability was determined in mf-yang openclaw-cn up to 0.2.1. This vulnerability affects the function isApprovedElevatedSender of the file src/auto-reply/reply/reply-elevated.ts. This manipulation causes improper privilege management.…
- CVE-2026-19189HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82026-08-07
A security flaw has been discovered in Power Sofware PowerISO 9.3.0.0. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality in the library C:\Windows\System32\drivers\scdemu.sys of the component Kernel Driver. The manipulation results in i…
- CVE-2026-19220LOWCVSS 3.7EG 3.72026-08-26
The Forminator Forms WordPress plugin before 1.57.1 does not verify that site registration is enabled on the network before creating a site signup, allowing unauthenticated visitors to create a new site on a WordPress multisite network an…
- CVE-2026-19222MEDIUMCVSS 6.6EG 6.62026-08-22
The Forminator Forms WordPress plugin before 1.57.0.7 does not consistently enforce the role restriction it applies to registration forms, allowing users who are permitted to build forms to configure one that assigns the administrator rol…
- CVE-2026-19360MEDIUMCVSS 4.7EG 4.72026-08-09
A vulnerability was detected in wongcyrus ExcelLexBot up to 0.0.3. This affects the function ExcelLexBotS3TriggerFunction of the component Lambda Function Handler. Performing a manipulation results in improper privilege management. The att…
- CVE-2026-19381HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82026-08-10
A security flaw has been discovered in Kingston FURY CTRL RGB Control Software 2.0.65.0. The impacted element is an unknown function in the library NTIOLib_KSFX.sys of the component Driver. Performing a manipulation results in improper pri…
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