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Placement of User into Incorrect Group

CWE-842

The product or the administrator places a user into an incorrect group.

We track 10 vulnerabilities of this type. 100% are rated high or critical, and the average CVSS score is 7.9.

Latest Placement of User into Incorrect Group vulnerabilities

  • 7.5 High severity

    EOS: Placement of User into Incorrect Group

    CVE-2026-73439Arista Networks

    On affected platforms running Arista EOS, if OpenConfig is configured and running a gNMI server on the system, and if gNSI Pathz is configured and a gNSI Pathz policy is present on the system, then gNMI may fail to correctly enforce the rules in this policy if

  • 7.3 High severity

    authd: Placement of User into Incorrect Group

    CVE-2026-6970Canonical

    authd prior to version 0.6.4 contains a logic error in primary group ID assignment that can lead to local privilege escalation. When a user's primary group ID (GID) differs from their UID, either because the account was created with authd prior to version 0.5.

  • 9.0 Critical severity

    CodeChecker: Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness

    CVE-2024-10082Ericsson

    CodeChecker is an analyzer tooling, defect database and viewer extension for the Clang Static Analyzer and Clang Tidy. Authentication method confusion allows logging in as the built-in root user from an external service. The built-in root user up until 6.24.1

  • 8.4 High severity

    Verve® Asset Manager: Placement of User into Incorrect Group

    CVE-2024-9412Rockwell Automation

    An improper authorization vulnerability exists in the Rockwell Automation affected products that could allow an unauthorized user to sign in. While removal of all role mappings is unlikely, it could occur in the case of unexpected or accidental removal by the

  • 8.8 High severity

    elabftw: Incorrect Privilege Assignment

    CVE-2024-25632Elabftw

    eLabFTW is an open source electronic lab notebook for research labs. In the context of eLabFTW, an administrator is a user account with certain privileges to manage users and content in their assigned team/teams. A user may be an administrator in one team and

  • 8.8 High severity

    PowerScale OneFS: Placement of User into Incorrect Group

    CVE-2022-45097Dell

    Dell PowerScale OneFS 9.0.0.x-9.4.0.x contains an Incorrect User Management vulnerability. A low privileged network attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to escalation of privileges, and information disclosure.

  • 7.8 High severity

    Ceph: Placement of User into Incorrect Group

    CVE-2022-3650Ceph

    A privilege escalation flaw was found in Ceph. Ceph-crash.service allows a local attacker to escalate privileges to root in the form of a crash dump, and dump privileged information.

  • 7.1 High severity

    buildah: Incorrect Authorization

    CVE-2022-2990Buildah

    An incorrect handling of the supplementary groups in the Buildah container engine might lead to the sensitive information disclosure or possible data modification if an attacker has direct access to the affected container where supplementary groups are used to

  • 7.1 High severity

    podman: Incorrect Authorization

    CVE-2022-2989Podman

    An incorrect handling of the supplementary groups in the Podman container engine might lead to the sensitive information disclosure or possible data modification if an attacker has direct access to the affected container where supplementary groups are used to

  • 7.2 High severity

    elabftw: Placement of User into Incorrect Group

    CVE-2022-31007ElabftwEPSS 26.9%

    eLabFTW is an electronic lab notebook manager for research teams. Prior to version 4.3.0, a vulnerability allows an authenticated user with an administrator role in a team to assign itself system administrator privileges within the application, or create a new