Improper Privilege Management
CWE-269
The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
We track 1,938 vulnerabilities of this type. 100% are rated high or critical, and the average CVSS score is 8.4. 22 have 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: Follow the principle of least privilege when assigning access rights to entities in a software system.
- Architecture and Design: Consider following the principle of separation of privilege. Require multiple conditions to be met before permitting access to a system resource.
Latest Improper Privilege Management vulnerabilities
- 9.9 Critical severity
Oracle Applications Manager: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle Applications Manager product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Internal Operations). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.15. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access v
- 8.8 High severity
Oracle Cost Management: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle Cost Management product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Cost Planning). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.15. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to
- 8.8 High severity
Oracle Spares Management: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle Spares Management product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Internal Operations). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.15. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via
- 7.2 High severity
Oracle HR Intelligence: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle HR Intelligence product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Internal Operations). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.15. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via H
- 8.8 High severity
Siebel CRM Cloud Applications: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Siebel CRM Cloud Applications product of Oracle Siebel CRM (component: Siebel Cloud Manager). Supported versions that are affected are 17.0-26.5. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP
- 8.8 High severity
Oracle Process Manufacturing Product Development: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle Process Manufacturing Product Development product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Quality Management Specs). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.15. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged atta
- 7.1 High severity
Oracle Solaris: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Filesystem). The supported version that is affected is 11.4. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Solaris execute
- 8.8 High severity
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools product of Oracle JD Edwards (component: Business Logic Infrastructure Security). Supported versions that are affected are 9.2.0.0-9.2.26.2. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker wit
- 9.9 Critical severity
Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are V15 and V16. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via
- 9.9 Critical severity
Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are V15 and V16. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via
- 9.6 Critical severity
Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are V15 and V16. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via
- 9.9 Critical severity
Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are V15 and V16. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via
- 9.9 Critical severity
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne General Ledger: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne General Ledger product of Oracle JD Edwards (component: E1 Foundation). The supported version that is affected is 9.2. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via SMB to
- 8.8 High severity
Siebel CRM Integration: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Siebel CRM Integration product of Oracle Siebel CRM (component: EAI). Supported versions that are affected are 17.0-26.5. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Siebel CRM
- 7.5 High severity
Oracle VM VirtualBox: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: VMSVGA device). The supported version that is affected is 7.2.8. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Or
- 7.2 High severity
Oracle Enterprise Manager Base Platform: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle Enterprise Manager Base Platform product of Oracle Enterprise Manager (component: Extensibility Framework). Supported versions that are affected are 13.5 and 24.1. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker wit
- 9.9 Critical severity
Oracle Enterprise Manager Base Platform: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle Enterprise Manager Base Platform product of Oracle Enterprise Manager (component: Metadata Plugin). Supported versions that are affected are 13.5 and 24.1. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network
- 8.7 High severity
Oracle WebCenter Content: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle WebCenter Content product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: Content Server). The supported version that is affected is 14.1.2.0.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to
- 9.9 Critical severity
Identity Manager Connector: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Identity Manager Connector product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: Generic Unix Connector). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.1.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with ne
- 8.2 High severity
PeopleSoft Enterprise PT PeopleTools: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise PT PeopleTools product of Oracle PeopleSoft (component: Deployment Package). Supported versions that are affected are 8.61 and 8.62. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the i
- 8.4 High severity
PeopleSoft Enterprise PT PeopleTools: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise PT PeopleTools product of Oracle PeopleSoft (component: Deployment Package). Supported versions that are affected are 8.61 and 8.62. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the i
- 7.0 High severity
EMC VxRail Appliance: Improper Privilege Management
api-gateway container running with root privilege would allow an attacker to escape the container and access host system to perform unintended actions.
- 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.
- 7.5 High severity
LatePoint – Calendar Booking Plugin for…: Improper Privilege Management
The LatePoint – Calendar Booking Plugin for Appointments and Events plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation to Administrator in versions up to, and including, 5.5.1. The plugin chains three independent flaws that together allow an authentica
- 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
- 9.9 Critical severity
nezha: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
Nezha Monitoring is a self-hostable, lightweight, servers and websites monitoring and O&M tool. From version 1.4.0 to before version 2.0.8, a RoleMember user can create a scheduled cron task with Cover=CronCoverAll, Servers=[] and an arbitrary Command. At ever
- 8.8 High severity
Chrome: Improper Privilege Management
Inappropriate implementation in Mojo in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 149.0.7827.115 allowed a local attacker to perform OS-level privilege escalation via a malicious file. (Chromium security severity: High)
- 7.8 High severity
Idira Endpoint Privilege Manager: Improper Privilege Management
Idira Endpoint Privilege Manager Agent versions prior to 26.5 exhibit improper access control within high-privileged agent components. A local, low-privileged attacker could exploit this by manipulating an internal communication mechanism or file operation. Un
- 7.8 High severity
macOS: Improper Privilege Management
The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.4. An app may be able to bypass launch constraint protections and execute malicious code with elevated privileges.
- 8.5 High severity
fission: Improper Privilege Management
Fission is an open-source, Kubernetes-native serverless framework that simplifies the deployment of functions and applications on Kubernetes. Prior to version 1.25.0, Fission added PodSpec safety validation for tenant-facing Environment and Function CRDs (Vali
- 9.9 Critical severity
fission: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Fission is an open-source, Kubernetes-native serverless framework that simplifies the deployment of functions and applications on Kubernetes. Prior to version 1.24.0, a tenant with environments.fission.io create/update RBAC can run privileged / allowPrivilegeE
- 9.9 Critical severity
fission: Improper Privilege Management
Fission is an open-source, Kubernetes-native serverless framework that simplifies the deployment of functions and applications on Kubernetes. Prior to version 1.24.0, Fission's Environment CRD exposes spec.runtime.podSpec and spec.builder.podSpec, which are me
- 9.9 Critical severity
fission: Improper Privilege Management
Fission is an open-source, Kubernetes-native serverless framework that simplifies the deployment of functions and applications on Kubernetes. Prior to version 1.24.0, Fission's Container Executor path lets a tenant supply Function.spec.podspec directly; the ex
- 9.9 Critical severity
fission: Improper Privilege Management
Fission is an open-source, Kubernetes-native serverless framework that simplifies the deployment of functions and applications on Kubernetes. Prior to version 1.24.0, the Environment.spec.runtime.podSpec / spec.builder.podSpec passthrough lacked validation, an
- 8.7 High severity
fission: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Fission is an open-source, Kubernetes-native serverless framework that simplifies the deployment of functions and applications on Kubernetes. Prior to version 1.23.0, Fission runtime pods were created with ServiceAccountName: fission-fetcher, and the fission-f
- 9.8 Critical severity
Doctreat Core: Improper Privilege Management
The Doctreat Core plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.8. This is due to the doctreat_process_registration() function not properly restricting the roles that a user can register with. This makes i
- 8.8 High severity
Events Calendar for GeoDirectory: Improper Privilege Management
The Events Calendar for GeoDirectory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions up to and including 2.3.28. This is due to the ajax_ayi_action() handler only applying strip_tags(esc_sql()) — with no allow-list — to the attacker-cont
- 9.4 Critical severity
Altium Enterprise Server: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
A path traversal vulnerability exists in the Altium Enterprise Server Collaboration Service due to improper handling of user-supplied filenames in the MCAD and Simulation file download flows. A regular authenticated user can submit a collaboration message cont
- 8.3 High severity
EOS / CloudVision eXchange (CVX): Improper Privilege Management
An authenticated Redis session could be used to obtain full root access to all servers in the CVX cluster. Note that this would require an attacker to have both network access to the Redis service on a CVX server and the Redis password. Please note that all Re
- 7.5 High severity
Chrome: Improper Privilege Management
Inappropriate implementation in ImageCapture in Google Chrome prior to 149.0.7827.53 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to perform privilege escalation via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)