Privilege Chaining
CWE-268
Two distinct privileges, roles, capabilities, or rights can be combined in a way that allows an entity to perform unsafe actions that would not be allowed without that combination.
We track 12 vulnerabilities of this type. 100% are rated high or critical, and the average CVSS score is 8.2.
How this weakness is prevented
- Architecture and Design: Consider following the principle of separation of privilege. Require multiple conditions to be met before permitting access to a system resource.
- 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 Privilege Chaining vulnerabilities
- 8.5 High severity
ServerView Agents for Windows: Privilege Chaining
Privilege chaining issue exists in ServerView Agents for Windows V11.60.04 and earlier. If this vulnerability is exploited, a local authenticated attacker who can log in to the server where the affected product is installed may obtain SYSTEM privilege.
- 7.8 High severity
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: Privilege Chaining
Local privilege escalation in snapd on Linux allows local attackers to get root privilege by re-creating snap's private /tmp directory when systemd-tmpfiles is configured to automatically clean up this directory. This issue affects Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS,
- 8.5 High severity
QND Premium/Advance/Standard: Privilege Chaining
QND Premium/Advance/Standard Ver.11.0.9i and prior contains a privilege escalation vulnerability, which may allow a user who can log in to a Windows system with the affected product to gain administrator privileges. As a result, sensitive information may be ac
- 8.5 High severity
FactoryTalk® ViewPoint: Privilege Chaining
A security issue exists in FactoryTalk ViewPoint version 14.0 or below due to improper handling of MSI repair operations. During a repair, attackers can hijack the cscript.exe console window, which runs with SYSTEM privileges. This can be exploited to spawn an
- 7.5 High severity
WebSphere Application Server Liberty: Privilege Chaining
IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 25.0.0.8 could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions caused by a failure to honor JMS messaging configuration
- 7.8 High severity
Privilege Management for Windows: Privilege Chaining
Prior to version 25.4.270.0, a local authenticated attacker can manipulate user profile files to add illegitimate challenge response codes into the local user registry under certain conditions. This allows users with the ability to edit their user profile file
- 8.5 High severity
Delphix: Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions
An attacker with knowledge of creating user accounts during VM deployment on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using the OS Login feature, can login via SSH gaining command-line control of the operating system. This allows an attacker to gain access to sensitive dat
- 8.8 High severity
OpenVPN: Privilege Chaining
OpenVPN version 2.4.0 through 2.6.10 on Windows allows an external, lesser privileged process to create a named pipe which the OpenVPN GUI component would connect to allowing it to escalate its privileges
- 7.8 High severity
Privilege Management for Windows: Privilege Chaining
Prior to 25.2, a local authenticated attacker can elevate privileges on a system with Privilege Management for Windows installed, via the manipulation of COM objects under certain circumstances where an EPM policy allows for automatic privilege elevation of a
- 7.8 High severity
The installer of e-Tax software(common program): Privilege Chaining
Privilege chaining issue exists in the installer of e-Tax software(common program). If this vulnerability is exploited, a malicious DLL prepared by an attacker may be executed with higher privileges than the application privilege.
- 8.1 High severity
GitLab: Privilege Chaining
A privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in GitLab affecting versions 16.8 prior to 16.8.4 and 16.9 prior to 16.9.2. It was possible for a user with custom role of `manage_group_access_tokens` to rotate group access tokens with owner privileges.
- 8.8 High severity
Z/IP Gateway: Incorrect Authorization
A logic error in SiLabs Z/IP Gateway SDK 7.18.02 and earlier allows authentication to be bypassed, remote administration of Z-Wave controllers, and S0/S2 encryption keys to be recovered.