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-2026-79813MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72026-10-06
A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the ClearPass client software. Successful exploitation could allow a low-privileged local user to execute commands with elevated privileges on the affected system, if certain conditions …
- CVE-2026-105688MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72026-10-05
Penpot is an open-source design and prototyping platform. Prior to 2.18.0, create-team-invitations and the invitation acceptance path allow a non-owner team administrator to assign the owner role because invitation roles are persisted and …
- CVE-2026-102141MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72026-09-30
Two Kiteworks Core cluster-management operations did not validate file paths supplied to them, so an attacker holding root on one node of a cluster could write files as root onto another node and cause them to be executed there. Exploitati…
- CVE-2026-26947MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72026-09-16
Dell ECS versions 3.8.1.0 through 3.8.1.7, and Dell ObjectScale versions prior to 4.4.0.0, contains an Improper Privilege Management vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, …
- CVE-2026-87248MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72026-09-15
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-2026-0179MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72026-09-15
In Bootloader, there is a possible permission bypass due to a missing permission check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.
- CVE-2026-71109MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72026-08-18
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 high privileged attacker with lo…
- CVE-2026-16742MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72026-08-10
systemd-homed contains a local privilege escalation bug via arbitrary system group addition to a local, logged in, homed-managed user
- CVE-2026-61182MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72026-07-21
Vulnerability in the Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management for Process product of Oracle Supply Chain (component: Data Import). The supported version that is affected is 6.2.4. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged …
- CVE-2026-61176MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72026-07-21
Vulnerability in the Oracle Product Lifecycle Analytics product of Oracle Supply Chain (component: Installation Issues). The supported version that is affected is 3.6.1. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker wi…
- CVE-2026-60406MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72026-07-21
Vulnerability in the TimesTen In-Memory Database product of Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database (component: Kubernetes Operator). The supported version that is affected is 26.1.1.1.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privilege…
- CVE-2026-49501MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72026-07-15
Dell PowerScale OneFS versions 9.5.0.0 through 9.10.1.7, and versions 9.11.0.0 through 9.13.0.2 contains an Improper Privilege Management vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerabil…
- CVE-2026-0275MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72026-07-09
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Prisma® Browser allows a locally authenticated administrator with access to the macOS local filesystem to perform actions on the device with root privileges. This issue on…
- CVE-2026-26946MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72026-05-11
Dell ECS versions 3.8.1.0 through 3.8.1.7 and Dell ObjectScale versions prior to 4.3.0.0, contains an improper privilege management vulnerability in the OS. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulne…
- CVE-2026-35154MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72026-04-20
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain appliances, versions 7.7.1.0 through 8.6.0.0 and version 8.7.0.0, LTS2025 release versions 8.3.1.0 through 8.3.1.20, LTS2024 release versions 7.13.1.0 through 7.13.1.60 contain an improper privilege manageme…
- CVE-2025-13918MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72026-01-28
Symantec Endpoint Protection, prior to 14.3 RU10 Patch 1, RU9 Patch 2, and RU8 Patch 3, may be susceptible to a Elevation of Privilege vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an attacker may attempt to compromise the software appli…
- CVE-2025-69257MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72025-12-30
theshit is a command-line utility that automatically detects and fixes common mistakes in shell commands. Prior to version 0.1.1, the application loads custom Python rules and configuration files from user-writable locations (e.g., `~/.con…
- CVE-2025-43722MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72025-09-08
Dell PowerScale OneFS, versions prior to 9.12.0.0, contains an improper privilege management vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to elevation of privileges.
- CVE-2025-8453MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72025-08-20
CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management vulnerability exists that could cause privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution when a privileged engineer user with console access modifies a configuration file used by a root-level daemon to…
- CVE-2025-1732MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72025-04-22
An improper privilege management vulnerability in the recovery function of the Zyxel USG FLEX H series uOS firmware version V1.31 and earlier could allow an authenticated local attacker with administrator privileges to upload a crafted con…
- CVE-2025-29999MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72025-04-08
A vulnerability has been identified in Siemens License Server (SLS) (All versions < V4.3). The affected application searches for executable files in the application folder without proper validation. This could allow an attacker to execute…
- CVE-2025-28401MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72025-04-07
An issue in RUoYi v.4.8.0 allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via the menuId parameter
- CVE-2025-28400MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72025-04-07
An issue in RUoYi v.4.8.0 allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via the postID parameter in the edit method
- CVE-2024-57062MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72025-03-13
An issue in SoundCloud IOS application v.7.65.2 allows a local attacker to escalate privileges and obtain sensitive information via the session handling component.
- CVE-2025-21199MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72025-03-11
Improper privilege management in Azure Agent Installer allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
- CVE-2024-38818MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72024-10-09
VMware NSX contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. An authenticated malicious actor may exploit this vulnerability to obtain permissions from a separate group role than previously assigned.
- CVE-2024-39574MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72024-09-10
Dell PowerScale InsightIQ, version 5.1, contain an Improper Privilege Management vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Denial of service.
- CVE-2024-39819MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72024-07-15
Integrity check in the installer for some Zoom Workplace Apps and SDKs for Windows may allow an authenticated user to conduct a privilege escalation via local access.
- CVE-2024-37133MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72024-07-02
Dell PowerScale OneFS versions 8.2.2.x through 9.8.0.0 contain an improper privilege management vulnerability. A local high privileged attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to unauthorized gain of root-level access.
- CVE-2024-37126MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72024-07-02
Dell PowerScale OneFS versions 8.2.2.x through 9.8.0.0 contain an improper privilege management vulnerability. A local high privileged attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to unauthorized gain of root-level access.
- CVE-2024-32854MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72024-07-02
Dell PowerScale OneFS versions 8.2.2.x through 9.8.0.0 contain an improper privilege management vulnerability. A local high privilege attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to privilege escalation.
- CVE-2024-29975MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72024-06-04
** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** The improper privilege management vulnerability in the SUID executable binary in Zyxel NAS326 firmware versions before V5.21(AAZF.17)C0 and NAS542 firmware versions before V5.21(ABAG.14)C0 could allow an aut…
- CVE-2023-45320MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72024-05-16
Uncontrolled search path element in some Intel(R) VTune(TM) Profiler software before version 2024.0 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
- CVE-2023-40155MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72024-05-16
Uncontrolled search path for some Intel(R) CST software before version 2.1.10300 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
- CVE-2024-31953MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72024-05-14
An issue was discovered in Samsung Magician 8.0.0 on macOS. Because it is possible to tamper with the directory and executable files used during the installation process, an attacker can escalate privileges through arbitrary code execution…
- CVE-2024-20021MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72024-05-06
In atf spm, there is a possible way to remap physical memory to virtual memory due to a logic error. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.…
- CVE-2024-33522MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72024-04-29
In vulnerable versions of Calico (v3.27.2 and below), Calico Enterprise (v3.19.0-1, v3.18.1, v3.17.3 and below), and Calico Cloud (v19.2.0 and below), an attacker who has local access to the Kubernetes node, can escalate their privileges b…
- CVE-2024-25987MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72024-03-11
In pt_sysctl_command of pt.c, there is a possible out of bounds write due to an incorrect bounds check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitati…
- CVE-2023-6477MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72024-02-22
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 16.5 before 16.7.6, all versions starting from 16.8 before 16.8.3, all versions starting from 16.9 before 16.9.1. When a user is assigned a custom role with adm…
- CVE-2024-22235MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72024-02-21
VMware Aria Operations contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with administrative access to the local system can escalate privileges to 'root'.
- CVE-2024-23764MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72024-02-08
Certain WithSecure products allow Local Privilege Escalation. This affects WithSecure Client Security 15 and later, WithSecure Server Security 15 and later, WithSecure Email and Server Security 15 and later, and WithSecure Elements Endpoin…
- CVE-2023-48406MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72023-12-08
there is a possible permanent DoS or way for the modem to boot unverified firmware due to a logic error in the code. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed f…
- CVE-2022-41700MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72023-11-14
Insecure inherited permissions in some Intel(R) NUC Pro Software Suite installation software before version 2.0.0.9 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
- CVE-2023-6006MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72023-11-14
This vulnerability potentially allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of PaperCut NG. An attacker must have local write access to the C Drive. In addition, Print Archiving must be enabled or the attacker ne…
- CVE-2023-4936MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72023-10-11
It is possible to sideload a compromised DLL during the installation at elevated privilege.
- CVE-2023-34043MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72023-09-27
VMware Aria Operations contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with administrative access to the local system can escalate privileges to 'root'.
- CVE-2023-20193MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72023-09-07
A vulnerability in the Embedded Service Router (ESR) of Cisco ISE could allow an authenticated, local attacker to read, write, or delete arbitrary files on the underlying operating system and escalate their privileges to root. To exploit t…
- CVE-2023-32490MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72023-08-16
Dell PowerScale OneFS 8.2x -9.5x contains an improper privilege management vulnerability. A high privilege local attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to system takeover.
- CVE-2022-45853MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72023-05-30
The privilege escalation vulnerability in the Zyxel GS1900-8 firmware version V2.70(AAHH.3) and the GS1900-8HP firmware version V2.70(AAHI.3) could allow an authenticated, local attacker with administrator privileges to execute some sy…
- CVE-2023-30622MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72023-04-24
Clusternet is a general-purpose system for controlling Kubernetes clusters across different environments. An issue in clusternet prior to version 0.15.2 can be leveraged to lead to a cluster-level privilege escalation. The clusternet has a…
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