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
- 7.3 High severity
Onlne Examination & Learning Management System: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A flaw has been found in SourceCodester Onlne Examination & Learning Management System 1.0. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file register.php of the component Registration Endpoint. Executing a manipulation of the argument role can lead to i
- 7.3 High severity
Multi-Vendor Online Grocery Management System: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A weakness has been identified in SourceCodester Multi-Vendor Online Grocery Management System 1.0. This affects the function save_users of the file classes/Users.php. This manipulation causes improper authorization. Remote exploitation of the attack is possib
- 8.8 High severity
weaviate: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Weaviate before 1.38.0 does not verify that a principal performing an RBAC role assignment holds the permissions granted by the assigned role. The assignRoleToUser and assignRoleToGroup handlers (POST /authz/users/{id}/assign and /authz/groups/{id}/assign) aut
- 8.8 High severity
Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A flaw was found in Foreman. The Usergroup model in Foreman does not properly validate role assignments against the calling user's permissions. This allows an authenticated user with usergroup management permissions to attach arbitrary roles, including adminis
- 9.8 Critical severity
PrivateContent: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in LCweb PrivateContent allows Privilege Escalation. This issue affects PrivateContent: from n/a through 9.9.2.
- 8.8 High severity
Capgo: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Capgo before 12.128.2 allows org admins to assign org-scoped RBAC roles at app scope without validating role scope compatibility, including to pending invitees. Attackers can pre-seed malformed high-privilege bindings that survive invite acceptance, enabling a
- 7.3 High severity
Inventory Management System: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A weakness has been identified in SourceCodester Inventory Management System 1.0. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /api/users_handler.php of the component User Registration Endpoint. This manipulation of the argument role causes improper acc
- 7.3 High severity
O+ Connect: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Because O+ Connect's IPC service does not authenticate clients, external applications can escalate privileges and perform sensitive actions through the IPC channel.
- 7.1 High severity
FreeBSD: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
The Linuxulator determined whether a binary was set-user-ID or set-group-ID by checking the P_SUGID process flag. During execve(2), this flag is not yet set at the point where the auxiliary vector is constructed, so AT_SECURE was incorrectly set to zero for se
- 7.8 High severity
UltraISO Premium Edition: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability has been found in Ezbsystems UltraISO Premium Edition up to 9.76. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality in the library bootpt64.sys of the component Kernel Driver. The manipulation leads to improper access controls. Local access
- 7.8 High severity
Partition Resizer: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A weakness has been identified in IM-Magic Partition Resizer up to 7.9.0. This affects an unknown function in the library MDA_NTDRV.sys of the component Kernel Driver. This manipulation causes improper access controls. The attack requires local access. The exp
- 7.8 High severity
Partition Master: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A security flaw has been discovered in EaseUS Partition Master up to 14.5. The impacted element is an unknown function in the library EUEDKEPM.sys of the component Kernel Driver. The manipulation results in improper access controls. The attack requires a local
- 7.8 High severity
Partition Master: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability was identified in EaseUS Partition Master up to 14.5. The affected element is an unknown function in the library epmntdrv.sys of the component Kernel Driver. The manipulation leads to improper access controls. The attack needs to be performed l
- 7.8 High severity
Backupper: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability was determined in AOMEI Backupper up to 8.3.0. Impacted is an unknown function in the library amwrtdrv.sys of the component Kernel Driver. Executing a manipulation can lead to improper access controls. The attack needs to be launched locally. T
- 7.8 High severity
Dynamic Disk Manager: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability was found in AOMEI Dynamic Disk Manager up to 10.10.1. This issue affects some unknown processing in the library ddmdrv.sys of the component Kernel Driver. Performing a manipulation results in improper access controls. The attack must be initia
- 7.8 High severity
Partition Assistant: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability has been found in AOMEI Partition Assistant up to 10.10.1. This vulnerability affects unknown code in the library ampa10.sys of the component Kernel Driver. Such manipulation leads to improper access controls. The attack must be carried out loc
- 7.5 High severity
litellm: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability was identified in BerriAI litellm up to 1.82.2. This affects an unknown function of the file litellm/proxy/auth/user_api_key_auth.py of the component M2M JWT Handler. Such manipulation leads to improper authorization. The attack can be launched
- 8.8 High severity
litellm: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability was determined in BerriAI litellm up to 1.63.1. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/key_management_endpoints.py of the component Admin Key Handler. This manipulation causes improper authori
- 7.3 High severity
CET Automated Grading System with AI…: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A security vulnerability has been detected in SourceCodester CET Automated Grading System with AI Predictive Analytics 1.0. Affected is an unknown function of the file /index.php of the component Student Self-Registration Endpoint. The manipulation leads to im
- 7.5 High severity
Firefox: Protection Mechanism Failure
Sandbox escape in the DOM: Workers component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 152, Firefox ESR 140.12, Firefox ESR 115.37, Thunderbird 152, and Thunderbird 140.12.
- 7.5 High severity
Firefox: Improper Privilege Management
Privilege escalation in the Graphics: WebRender component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 152, Firefox ESR 140.12, Firefox ESR 115.37, Thunderbird 152, and Thunderbird 140.12.
- 8.8 High severity
Masteriyo - LMS: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in ThemeGrill Masteriyo - LMS allows Privilege Escalation. This issue affects Masteriyo - LMS: from n/a through 2.2.0.
- 7.8 High severity
Virtual Drive: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A security vulnerability has been detected in DVDFab Virtual Drive 2.0.0.5. Impacted is an unknown function in the library dvdfabio.sys of the component Signed Kernel Driver. The manipulation leads to improper privilege management. An attack has to be approach
- 8.8 High severity
ChromaDB: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
A lack of authorization validation in version 0.4.17 or later of the ChromaDB Python project allows any authenticated users to arbitrarily read, write, update, or delete data in any tenant's collection regardless of which tenant they belong to.
- 9.8 Critical severity
Hippoo Mobile App for WooCommerce: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Hippoo Mobile App for WooCommerce allows Privilege Escalation. This issue affects Hippoo Mobile App for WooCommerce: from n/a through 1.9.4.
- 8.3 High severity
OpenClaw: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
OpenClaw before 2026.5.20 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability where hook-triggered agent runs incorrectly receive owner-scoped MCP loopback authority instead of hook-appropriate scope. Attackers with a valid hook token can exploit the /hooks/agent en
- 7.5 High severity
quest-bot: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Quest Bot is an opensource modern Discord Bot built for moderation, utilities and support. Prior to version 1.0.3, a user with Manage Server / ManageGuild, but without Manage Roles or Administrator, can configure the bot’s AutoRole feature to assign an arbitra
- 8.4 High severity
C1-Ultra: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization
Arm C1-Ultra, C1-Premium, Neoverse V3 & V3AE, Neoverse V2, Neoverse V1, Neoverse-N2, Neoverse-N1, Cortex-X925, Cortex-X4, Cortex-X3, Cortex-X2, Cortex-X1 & X1C, Cortex-A710, Cortex-A78, A78AE & A78C, Cortex-A77, Cortex-A76 & A76A may allow writes to resources
- 7.5 High severity
DGS-1100-08PD: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability was identified in D-Link DGS-1100-08PD 1.00.006. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file /etc/boa.conf of the component Web Interface. Such manipulation leads to least privilege violation. The attack may be launched remotely. The
- 8.8 High severity
DCS-5615: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability has been found in D-Link DCS-5615 1.01.00. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /etc/conf.d/boa/boa.conf of the component Boa Webserver. Such manipulation leads to least privilege violation. The attack can be e
- 8.8 High severity
DIR-823G: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A security flaw has been discovered in D-Link DIR-823G 1.0.2B05. The affected element is an unknown function of the file /etc/vsftpd.conf of the component vsftpd. Performing a manipulation results in least privilege violation. The attack can be initiated remot
- 7.3 High severity
BeikeShop: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability was found in Chengdu Everbrite Network Technology BeikeShop up to 1.6.0.22. This impacts the function callback of the file plugins/Stripe/Controllers/StripeController.php of the component Stripe Plugin. Performing a manipulation of the argument
- 8.8 High severity
School Management: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Mojoomla School Management allows Privilege Escalation. This issue affects School Management: from n/a through 93.2.0.
- 9.8 Critical severity
Masteriyo LMS PRO: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Themeisle Masteriyo LMS PRO allows Privilege Escalation. This issue affects Masteriyo LMS PRO: from n/a through 2.20.0.
- 9.8 Critical severity
Contest Gallery Pro: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Wasiliy Strecker / ContestGallery developer Contest Gallery Pro allows Privilege Escalation. This issue affects Contest Gallery Pro: from n/a through 29.0.1.
- 7.3 High severity
Water Billing Management System: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability has been found in SourceCodester Water Billing Management System 1.0. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file /classes/Users.php?f=save of the component User Management Endpoint. Such manipulation leads to improper authorization.
- 8.8 High severity
Keystone: Incorrect Authorization
An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 29.0.2. When combined with an application credential impersonation vulnerability, an attacker with the member role on a project can escalate to admin by chaining unrestricted application credentials with Key
- 8.8 High severity
phpMyFAQ: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
phpMyFAQ before 4.1.3 contains an insecure direct object reference vulnerability in the admin API user password endpoint that allows authenticated administrators to change any user's password without authorization verification. An attacker with low-privilege a
- 7.3 High severity
Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A flaw was found in Keycloak's Fine-Grained Admin Permissions (FGAPv2) feature. An administrator with limited client management permissions can exploit this vulnerability to assign any realm role, including highly privileged roles, to a client's scope mapping.
- 9.8 Critical severity
WebinarIgnition: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Saleswonder Team: Tobias WebinarIgnition webinar-ignition allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects WebinarIgnition: from n/a through < 4.08.253.