CWE-250
Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Description
The product performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses.
Hierarchy (View 1000)
Related attack patterns (CAPEC)
CAPEC-104 · CAPEC-470 · CAPEC-69
CVEs mapped to this weakness (373)
page 14 of 19| CVE | Vendor / Product | Sev | Risk | CVSS | EPSS | KEV | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-21424 | Med | 0.44 | 6.7 | 0.00 | Mar 4, 2026 | Dell PowerScale OneFS, versions prior to 9.10.1.6 and versions 9.11.0.0 through 9.12.0.1, contains an execution with unnecessary privileges vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Elevation of… | ||
| CVE-2026-21421 | Med | 0.44 | 6.7 | 0.00 | Mar 4, 2026 | Dell PowerScale OneFS, versions prior to 9.10.1.6 and versions 9.11.0.0 through 9.12.0.1, contains an execution with unnecessary privileges vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to elevation of… | ||
| CVE-2025-37128 | Med | 0.44 | 6.8 | 0.00 | Sep 16, 2025 | A vulnerability in the web API of HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN Gateways could allow an authenticated remote attacker to terminate arbitrary running processes. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to disrupt system operations, potentially resulting in an… | ||
| CVE-2025-21110 | Med | 0.44 | 6.7 | 0.00 | Aug 14, 2025 | Dell Data Lakehouse, versions prior to 1.5.0.0, contains an Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Denial of service. | ||
| CVE-2025-3892 | Med | 0.44 | 6.7 | 0.00 | Aug 12, 2025 | ACAP applications can be executed with elevated privileges, potentially leading to privilege escalation. This vulnerability can only be exploited if the Axis device is configured to allow the installation of unsigned ACAP applications, and if an attacker convinces the victim to… | ||
| CVE-2025-43487 | Med | 0.44 | 6.8 | 0.00 | Jul 23, 2025 | A potential privilege escalation through Sudo vulnerability has been identified in the Poly Clariti Manager for versions prior to 10.12.2. The firmware flaw does not properly implement access controls. HP has addressed the issue in the latest software update. | ||
| CVE-2025-3364 | Med | 0.44 | 6.7 | 0.00 | Apr 8, 2025 | The SSH service of PowerStation from HGiga has a Chroot Escape vulnerability, allowing attackers with root privileges to bypass chroot restrictions and access the entire file system. | ||
| CVE-2024-27146 | Med | 0.44 | 6.7 | 0.00 | Jun 14, 2024 | The Toshiba printers do not implement privileges separation. As for the affected products/models/versions, see the reference URL. | ||
| CVE-2024-25967 | Med | 0.44 | 6.7 | 0.00 | May 14, 2024 | Dell PowerScale OneFS versions 8.2.x through 9.7.0.1 contains an execution with unnecessary privileges vulnerability. A local high privileged attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to escalation of privileges. | ||
| CVE-2023-45592 | Med | 0.44 | 6.8 | 0.01 | Mar 5, 2024 | A CWE-250 “Execution with Unnecessary Privileges” vulnerability in the embedded Chromium browser (due to the binary being executed with the “--no-sandbox” option and with root privileges) exacerbates the impacts of successful attacks executed against the browser. This… | ||
| CVE-2023-32486 | Med | 0.44 | 6.7 | 0.00 | Aug 16, 2023 | Dell PowerScale OneFS 9.5.x version contain a privilege escalation vulnerability. A low privilege local attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to escalation of privileges. | ||
| CVE-2023-2002 | Med | 0.44 | 6.8 | 0.01 | May 26, 2023 | A vulnerability was found in the HCI sockets implementation due to a missing capability check in net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c in the Linux Kernel. This flaw allows an attacker to unauthorized execution of management commands, compromising the confidentiality, integrity, and… | ||
| CVE-2022-1744 | Med | 0.44 | 6.8 | 0.00 | Jun 24, 2022 | Applications on the tested version of Dominion Voting Systems ImageCast X can execute code with elevated privileges by exploiting a system level service. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges on a device and/or install malicious code. | ||
| CVE-2020-10290 | Med | 0.44 | 6.8 | 0.00 | Aug 21, 2020 | Universal Robots controller execute URCaps (zip files containing Java-powered applications) without any permission restrictions and a wide API that presents many primitives that can compromise the overall robot operations as demonstrated in our video. In our PoC we demonstrate… | ||
| CVE-2020-10684 | Hig | 0.44 | 7.9 | 0.00 | Mar 24, 2020 | A flaw was found in Ansible Engine, all versions 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x prior to 2.7.17, 2.8.9 and 2.9.6 respectively, when using ansible_facts as a subkey of itself and promoting it to a variable when inject is enabled, overwriting the ansible_facts after the clean. An attacker… | ||
| CVE-2026-4498 | Hig | 0.43 | 7.7 | 0.00 | Apr 8, 2026 | Execution with Unnecessary Privileges (CWE-250) in Kibana’s Fleet plugin debug route handlers can lead reading index data beyond their direct Elasticsearch RBAC scope via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). This requires an authenticated Kibana user with Fleet sub-feature privileges… | ||
| CVE-2025-5196 | Med | 0.43 | 6.6 | 0.01 | May 26, 2025 | A vulnerability has been found in Wing FTP Server up to 7.4.3 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Lua Admin Console. The manipulation leads to execution with unnecessary privileges. The attack can be launched… | ||
| CVE-2026-69409 | Med | 0.42 | 6.5 | 0.01 | Sep 8, 2026 | Execution with unnecessary privileges in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows an authorized attacker to disclose information over a network. | ||
| CVE-2026-83534 | Med | 0.42 | 6.4 | 0.00 | Sep 6, 2026 | PostgreSQL Anonymizer contains a vulnerability in the anon.anonymize_database_parallel() function that allows the owner of a table to run arbitrary code with superuser privilege. The issue is fixed in PostgreSQL Anonymizer 3.2.0 and later versions | ||
| CVE-2026-71846 | Med | 0.42 | 6.5 | 0.00 | Aug 12, 2026 | A flaw was found in insights-client. The component's ServiceAccount is bound to a ClusterRole granting cluster-wide secrets get, list, and watch permissions, while the code only requires access to a single specific Secret. This excessive privilege means that a compromise of the… |
- risk 0.44cvss 6.7epss 0.00
Dell PowerScale OneFS, versions prior to 9.10.1.6 and versions 9.11.0.0 through 9.12.0.1, contains an execution with unnecessary privileges vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Elevation of…
- risk 0.44cvss 6.7epss 0.00
Dell PowerScale OneFS, versions prior to 9.10.1.6 and versions 9.11.0.0 through 9.12.0.1, contains an execution with unnecessary privileges vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to elevation of…
- risk 0.44cvss 6.8epss 0.00
A vulnerability in the web API of HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN Gateways could allow an authenticated remote attacker to terminate arbitrary running processes. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to disrupt system operations, potentially resulting in an…
- risk 0.44cvss 6.7epss 0.00
Dell Data Lakehouse, versions prior to 1.5.0.0, contains an Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Denial of service.
- risk 0.44cvss 6.7epss 0.00
ACAP applications can be executed with elevated privileges, potentially leading to privilege escalation. This vulnerability can only be exploited if the Axis device is configured to allow the installation of unsigned ACAP applications, and if an attacker convinces the victim to…
- risk 0.44cvss 6.8epss 0.00
A potential privilege escalation through Sudo vulnerability has been identified in the Poly Clariti Manager for versions prior to 10.12.2. The firmware flaw does not properly implement access controls. HP has addressed the issue in the latest software update.
- risk 0.44cvss 6.7epss 0.00
The SSH service of PowerStation from HGiga has a Chroot Escape vulnerability, allowing attackers with root privileges to bypass chroot restrictions and access the entire file system.
- risk 0.44cvss 6.7epss 0.00
The Toshiba printers do not implement privileges separation. As for the affected products/models/versions, see the reference URL.
- risk 0.44cvss 6.7epss 0.00
Dell PowerScale OneFS versions 8.2.x through 9.7.0.1 contains an execution with unnecessary privileges vulnerability. A local high privileged attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to escalation of privileges.
- risk 0.44cvss 6.8epss 0.01
A CWE-250 “Execution with Unnecessary Privileges” vulnerability in the embedded Chromium browser (due to the binary being executed with the “--no-sandbox” option and with root privileges) exacerbates the impacts of successful attacks executed against the browser. This…
- risk 0.44cvss 6.7epss 0.00
Dell PowerScale OneFS 9.5.x version contain a privilege escalation vulnerability. A low privilege local attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to escalation of privileges.
- risk 0.44cvss 6.8epss 0.01
A vulnerability was found in the HCI sockets implementation due to a missing capability check in net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c in the Linux Kernel. This flaw allows an attacker to unauthorized execution of management commands, compromising the confidentiality, integrity, and…
- risk 0.44cvss 6.8epss 0.00
Applications on the tested version of Dominion Voting Systems ImageCast X can execute code with elevated privileges by exploiting a system level service. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges on a device and/or install malicious code.
- risk 0.44cvss 6.8epss 0.00
Universal Robots controller execute URCaps (zip files containing Java-powered applications) without any permission restrictions and a wide API that presents many primitives that can compromise the overall robot operations as demonstrated in our video. In our PoC we demonstrate…
- risk 0.44cvss 7.9epss 0.00
A flaw was found in Ansible Engine, all versions 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x prior to 2.7.17, 2.8.9 and 2.9.6 respectively, when using ansible_facts as a subkey of itself and promoting it to a variable when inject is enabled, overwriting the ansible_facts after the clean. An attacker…
- risk 0.43cvss 7.7epss 0.00
Execution with Unnecessary Privileges (CWE-250) in Kibana’s Fleet plugin debug route handlers can lead reading index data beyond their direct Elasticsearch RBAC scope via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). This requires an authenticated Kibana user with Fleet sub-feature privileges…
- risk 0.43cvss 6.6epss 0.01
A vulnerability has been found in Wing FTP Server up to 7.4.3 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Lua Admin Console. The manipulation leads to execution with unnecessary privileges. The attack can be launched…
- risk 0.42cvss 6.5epss 0.01
Execution with unnecessary privileges in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows an authorized attacker to disclose information over a network.
- risk 0.42cvss 6.4epss 0.00
PostgreSQL Anonymizer contains a vulnerability in the anon.anonymize_database_parallel() function that allows the owner of a table to run arbitrary code with superuser privilege. The issue is fixed in PostgreSQL Anonymizer 3.2.0 and later versions
- risk 0.42cvss 6.5epss 0.00
A flaw was found in insights-client. The component's ServiceAccount is bound to a ClusterRole granting cluster-wide secrets get, list, and watch permissions, while the code only requires access to a single specific Secret. This excessive privilege means that a compromise of the…