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
- 7.8 High severity
Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue…: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management product of Oracle Communications (component: Platform). Supported versions that are affected are 15.0.0.0.0, 15.0.1.0.0, 15.1.0.0.0 and 15.2.0.0.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allow
- 8.8 High severity
Oracle OLAP: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle OLAP component of Oracle Database Server. Supported versions that are affected are 19.3-19.32, 21.3-21.23 and 23.4.0-23.26.3. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker having DBMS_AW privilege with network acce
- 7.0 High severity
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Analytics (component: BI Foundation). The supported version that is affected is 12.2.1.4.0. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to t
- 7.8 High severity
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Analytics (component: Presentation Services). The supported version that is affected is 12.2.1.4.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logo
- 7.8 High severity
Oracle Solaris: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Utility). The supported version that is affected is 11.4. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Solaris executes t
- 8.8 High severity
Oracle Database Server: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the RDBMS component of Oracle Database Server. Supported versions that are affected are 23.4.0-23.26.3. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker having DBMS_VECTOR privilege with network access via Oracle Net to compromi
- 7.8 High severity
Oracle HTTP Server: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle HTTP Server product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: Web Listener). The supported version that is affected is 12.2.1.4.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where
- 7.8 High severity
Oracle HTTP Server: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle HTTP Server product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: OSSL Module). The supported version that is affected is 12.2.1.4.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where O
- 8.4 High severity
Oracle Outside In Technology: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle Outside In Technology product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: Outside In Clean Content SDK). The supported version that is affected is 8.5.8. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the
- 8.4 High severity
Oracle Solaris: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Utility). Supported versions that are affected are 11.3 and 11.4. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Solaris e
- 7.8 High severity
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools product of Oracle JD Edwards (component: Installation Security). Supported versions that are affected are 9.2.0.0-9.2.26.5. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the in
- 7.8 High severity
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools product of Oracle JD Edwards (component: Installation Security). Supported versions that are affected are 9.2.0.0-9.2.26.5. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the in
- 7.2 High severity
iProcurement: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the iProcurement product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: E-Content Manager Catalog). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.15. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via HTTP
- 7.8 High severity
Oracle Solaris: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Kernel). The supported version that is affected is 11.4. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Solaris executes to
- 9.9 Critical severity
Oracle SOA Suite: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle SOA Suite product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: Adapters). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.0.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multipl
- 9.6 Critical severity
Chrome: Improper Privilege Management
Improper privilege management in CredentialProvider in Google Chrome on on Windows prior to 156.0.8078.47 allowed a local attacker to execute arbitrary code outside the sandbox via physical access. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
- 8.8 High severity
Chrome: Improper Privilege Management
Improper privilege management in Permissions in Google Chrome prior to 156.0.8078.47 allowed a remote attacker leveraging social engineering to bypass system access restrictions via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
- 7.8 High severity
Oracle Application Testing Suite: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in Oracle Application Testing Suite (component: OpenScript). The supported version that is affected is 13.3.0.1. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Application Testing Sui
- 7.0 High severity
Oracle Application Testing Suite: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in Oracle Application Testing Suite (component: OpenScript). The supported version that is affected is 13.3.0.1. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Application Testing S
- 7.0 High severity
Oracle Inventory Management: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle Inventory Management product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Internal Operations). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.15. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the i
- 7.0 High severity
Oracle Payroll: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle Payroll product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Internal Operations). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.15. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure
- 7.2 High severity
Oracle EDI Gateway: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle EDI Gateway product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: All Miscellaneous EDI Issues). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.15. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access
- 7.8 High severity
Oracle Enterprise Manager Base Platform: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle Enterprise Manager Base Platform product of Oracle Enterprise Manager (component: Enterprise Manager Install). Supported versions that are affected are 13.5 and 24.1. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker w
- 7.2 High severity
Oracle EDI Gateway: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle EDI Gateway product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: All Miscellaneous EDI Issues). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.15. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access
- 7.8 High severity
Oracle Autonomous Health Framework: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (component: Trace File Analyzer). Supported versions that are affected are 26.3-26.8. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Autonomous H
- 7.8 High severity
Oracle Autonomous Health Framework: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (component: Trace File Analyzer). Supported versions that are affected are 26.3-26.8. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Autonomous H
- 7.5 High severity
Oracle Product Lifecycle Analytics: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command
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. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via
- 7.2 High severity
Oracle EDI Gateway: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle EDI Gateway product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: All Miscellaneous EDI Issues). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.15. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access
- 7.8 High severity
Oracle Autonomous Health Framework: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (component: AHF Instant Diagnostic Replay). Supported versions that are affected are 26.3-26.8. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Au
- 9.9 Critical severity
StreamsHub Console for Apache Kafka®: Improper Privilege Management
A Kubernetes tenant with create permission on Console custom resources can set spec.containers.api.spec.image to an arbitrary container image. The operator deploys this image into a pod whose ServiceAccount is bound via ClusterRoleBinding to a ClusterRole gran
- 8.4 High severity
Sterling Connect Direct for Unix: Improper Privilege Management
IBM Sterling Connect Direct for Unix 6.3.0.0 through 6.3.0.7 and 6.4.0.0 through 6.4.0.6 could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges due to improper privilege management.
- 7.2 High severity
Salon Booking System: Improper Privilege Management
The Salon Booking System WordPress plugin before 10.31.11 does not prevent users holding its custom salon staff role from assigning arbitrary capabilities to other accounts when editing a customer, allowing them to escalate any account to administrator and tak
- 8.1 High severity
phpMyFAQ: Improper Privilege Management
phpMyFAQ before 4.1.9 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the deleteUser() API that allows authenticated non-superadmin users with delete_user permission to delete superadmin accounts. Attackers can send a DELETE request to /admin/api/user/delete
- 8.8 High severity
arcane: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Arcane is an interface for managing Docker containers, images, networks, and volumes. Prior to 2.6.0, UpdateUser in backend/api/handlers/users.go sets PasswordHash for any target without comparing caller and target privilege. A holder of delegated users:update
- 7.8 High severity
i: Improper Privilege Management
IBM i 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, and 7.6 is vulnerable to an authenticated attacker elevating their privilege. A bad actor could exploit this vulnerability to perform operations with QSECOFR/Root authority on the system.
- 9.8 Critical severity
whaticket-community: Improper Privilege Management
WhaTicket Community through commit cf04795 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to self-register as administrators via POST /auth/signup. Attackers can omit the profile field or set it to admin, gaining user man
- 7.2 High severity
Mailu: Improper Privilege Management
Mailu is a mail server distributed as a set of Docker images. Prior to 8577c929b4ade04d3cd4210cf036601abd793556, a domain manager targeting an administrative account or another domain manager with greater privileges can reset passwords or obtain tokens for tha
- 9.8 Critical severity
Theme My Login: Improper Privilege Management
The Theme My Login plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in versions up to, and including, 7.2.1. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password. This makes it poss
- 8.8 High severity
PilotPress: Improper Privilege Management
The PilotPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.43. The vulnerability exists because the `update_cc_details()` AJAX handler forwards an attacker-supplied `username` parame
- 8.1 High severity
User Profile Builder – Beautiful User…: Improper Privilege Management
The User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.3 via the `role` parameter handled by the `wppb_add_meta_to_user