Incorrect Privilege Assignment
CWE-266
A product incorrectly assigns a privilege to a particular actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
We track 586 vulnerabilities of this type. 100% are rated high or critical, and the average CVSS score is 8.5. 1 has been exploited in real attacks.
How this weakness is prevented
- Architecture and Design Operation: Very carefully manage the setting, management, and handling of privileges. Explicitly manage trust zones in the software.
- Architecture and Design Operation: Run your code using the lowest privileges that are required to accomplish the necessary tasks. If possible, create isolated accounts with limited privileges that are only used for a single task. That way, a successful attack will not immediately give the attacker access to the rest of the software or its environment. For example, database applications rarely need to run as the database administrator, especially in day-to-day operations.
Latest Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerabilities
- 7.6 High severity
Nomad Enterprise: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Nomad Enterprise (“Nomad”) jobs using the policy override option are bypassing the mandatory sentinel policies. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-3744, is fixed in Nomad Enterprise 1.10.1, 1.9.9, and 1.8.13.
- 8.8 High severity
Maximo Application Suite: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
IBM Maximo Application Suite 9.0 could allow an attacker with some level of access to elevate their privileges due to a security configuration vulnerability in Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) configurations.
- 9.8 Critical severity
OttoKit: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Brainstorm Force OttoKit suretriggers allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects OttoKit: from n/a through <= 1.0.82.
- 7.5 High severity
Mall: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Weitong Mall 1.0.0. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /queryTotal of the component Product Statistics Handler. The manipulation of the argument isDelete with the input 1 leads to improper ac
- 9.1 Critical severity
Mall: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Weitong Mall 1.0.0. This affects an unknown part of the file /historyList of the component Product History Handler. The manipulation of the argument isDelete with the input 1 leads to improper access con
- 9.8 Critical severity
Online-Travling-System: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability was found in ScriptAndTools Online-Travling-System 1.0. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file /admin/addpackage.php. The manipulation leads to improper access controls. The attack may be initiated
- 7.5 High severity
Online-Travling-System: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability was found in ScriptAndTools Online-Travling-System 1.0. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /admin/addadvertisement.php. The manipulation leads to improper access controls. The attack can be ini
- 9.8 Critical severity
Novel: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability was found in 201206030 Novel 3.5.0 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function updateBookChapter of the file src/main/java/io/github/xxyopen/novel/controller/author/AuthorController.java of the component Chapter Handler. The man
- 9.1 Critical severity
Novel-Plus: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in 20120630 Novel-Plus up to 0e156c04b4b7ce0563bef6c97af4476fcda8f160. This affects the function deleteIndex of the file novel-admin/src/main/java/com/java2nb/common/controller/LogController.java. The manip
- 9.8 Critical severity
Service Finder Bookings: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
The Service Finder Bookings plugin for WordPress, used by the Service Finder - Directory and Job Board WordPress Theme, is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 5.1. This is due to a lack of restriction on user role in the 'n
- 8.8 High severity
Xelion Webchat: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Jauhari Xelion Xelion Webchat xelion-webchat allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects Xelion Webchat: from n/a through <= 9.1.0.
- 9.8 Critical severity
Projectopia: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Projectopia Projectopia projectopia-core allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects Projectopia: from n/a through <= 5.1.24.
- 8.2 High severity
A3700R: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in TOTOLINK A3700R 9.1.2u.5822_B20200513. This issue affects the function setWiFiEasyCfg/setWiFiEasyGuestCfg of the file /cgi-bin/cstecgi.cgi of the component Password Handler. The manipulation
- 8.8 High severity
studentmanager: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability classified as critical was found in ZeroWdd/code-projects studentmanager 1.0. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /getTeacherList. The manipulation leads to improper authorization. The attack can be initiated remotely. The explo
- 9.1 Critical severity
rancher: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in SUSE rancher allows a Restricted Administrator to change the password of Administrators and take over their accounts. This issue affects rancher: from 2.8.0 before 2.8.14, from 2.9.0 before 2.9.8, from 2.10.0 b
- 9.8 Critical severity
Rankology SEO – On-site SEO: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Rankology Rankology SEO – On-site SEO rankology-seo-all-in-one-seo-analytics allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects Rankology SEO – On-site SEO: from n/a through <= 2.2.4.
- 8.8 High severity
WP User Profiles: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in John James Jacoby WP User Profiles wp-users-profiles allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects WP User Profiles: from n/a through <= 2.6.2.
- 9.8 Critical severity
Checkout Mestres WP: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Mestres do WP Checkout Mestres WP checkout-mestres-wp allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects Checkout Mestres WP: from n/a through <= 8.7.5.
- 9.8 Critical severity
VBlog: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability classified as critical was found in lenve VBlog up to 1.0.0. Affected by this vulnerability is the function configure of the file blogserver/src/main/java/org/sang/config/WebSecurityConfig.java. The manipulation leads to improper access control
- 7.5 High severity
admintwo: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability was found in xujiangfei admintwo 1.0. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /user/updateSet. The manipulation of the argument email leads to improper access controls. The attack may be l
- 7.5 High severity
admintwo: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability was found in xujiangfei admintwo 1.0. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /user/home. The manipulation of the argument ID leads to improper access controls. The attack can
- 7.6 High severity
wpForo Forum: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Tomdever wpForo Forum wpforo allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects wpForo Forum: from n/a through <= 2.4.2.
- 9.1 Critical severity
ruoyi-ai: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in ageerle ruoyi-ai up to 2.0.0. Affected is an unknown function of the file ruoyi-modules/ruoyi-system/src/main/java/org/ruoyi/system/controller/system/SysNoticeController.java. The manipulation leads to i
- 9.8 Critical severity
ruoyi-ai: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability was found in ageerle ruoyi-ai up to 2.0.1 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file ruoyi-modules/ruoyi-system/src/main/java/org/ruoyi/system/controller/system/SysModelController.java of the co
- 7.2 High severity
Salon booking system: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Dimitri Grassi Salon booking system salon-booking-system allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects Salon booking system: from n/a through < 10.15.
- 7.8 High severity
gVisor: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Google gVisor's runsc component exhibited a local privilege escalation vulnerability due to incorrect handling of file access permissions, which allowed unprivileged users to access restricted files. This occurred because the process initially ran with root-li
- 9.9 Critical severity
SnapCenter: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
SnapCenter versions prior to 6.0.1P1 and 6.1P1 are susceptible to a vulnerability which may allow an authenticated SnapCenter Server user to become an admin user on a remote system where a SnapCenter plug-in has been installed.
- 9.8 Critical severity
Human Resource Management System: Missing Authorization
A vulnerability was found in code-projects Human Resource Management System 1.0.1 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function Index of the file \handler\Account.go. The manipulation of the argument user_cookie leads to improper authorization. T
- 8.8 High severity
DIR-618: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability has been found in D-Link DIR-618 and DIR-605L 2.02/3.02 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /goform/formSetPassword. The manipulation leads to improper access controls. The attac
- 8.8 High severity
DIR-618: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in D-Link DIR-618 and DIR-605L 2.02/3.02. Affected is an unknown function of the file /goform/formSetDomainFilter. The manipulation leads to improper access controls. The attack can only be initia
- 8.1 High severity
berriai/litellm: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
An improper authorization vulnerability exists in the main-latest version of BerriAI/litellm. When a user with the role 'internal_user_viewer' logs into the application, they are provided with an overly privileged API key. This key can be used to access all th
- 7.8 High severity
SmartFabric OS10 Software: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Dell SmartFabric OS10 Software, version(s) 10.5.4.x, 10.5.5.x, 10.5.6.x, 10.6.0.x, contain(s) an Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability. A low privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Elevation of pri
- 9.8 Critical severity
DIR-823G: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability classified as critical was found in D-Link DIR-823G 1.0.2B05_20181207. Affected by this vulnerability is the function SetUpnpSettings of the file /HNAP1/ of the component UPnP Service. The manipulation of the argument SOAPAction leads to improp
- 9.8 Critical severity
DIR-823G: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in D-Link DIR-823G 1.0.2B05_20181207. Affected is the function SetDDNSSettings of the file /HNAP1/ of the component DDNS Service. The manipulation of the argument SOAPAction leads to improper authorization.
- 9.8 Critical severity
Dash Cam X5: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, was found in IROAD Dash Cam X5 and Dash Cam X6 up to 20250308. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation leads to improper authorization. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The vendor wa
- 9.1 Critical severity
springboot-openai-chatgpt: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in 274056675 springboot-openai-chatgpt e84f6f5. This affects the function deleteChat of the file /api/mjkj-chat/chat/ai/delete/chat of the component Chat History Handler. The manipulation of the argument
- 8.8 High severity
Directory Listings WordPress plugin – uListing: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
The Directory Listings WordPress plugin – uListing plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.0. This is due to the stm_listing_profile_edit AJAX action not having enough restriction on the user meta th
- 9.8 Critical severity
springboot-openai-chatgpt: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability has been found in 274056675 springboot-openai-chatgpt e84f6f5 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function submit of the file /api/blade-user/submit of the component User Handler. The manipulation leads to improper
- 9.8 Critical severity
LoveCardsV2: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability has been found in LoveCards LoveCardsV2 up to 2.3.2 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /api/system/other of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation leads to improper access controls. The atta
- 8.8 High severity
Car Dashcam F800 Pro: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Thinkware Car Dashcam F800 Pro up to 20250226. Affected is an unknown function of the component File Storage. The manipulation leads to improper access controls. The attack can only be done within the lo