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 (358)
page 14 of 18| CVE | Vendor / Product | Sev | Risk | CVSS | EPSS | KEV | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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-2026-71846 | 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… | ||
| CVE-2025-46696 | Med | 0.42 | 6.4 | 0.00 | Jan 6, 2026 | Dell Secure Connect Gateway (SCG) 5.0 Appliance and Application, version(s) versions 5.26 to 5.30, contain(s) an Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Elevation… | ||
| CVE-2025-13911 | Med | 0.42 | 6.4 | 0.00 | Dec 18, 2025 | The vulnerability affects Ignition SCADA applications where Python scripting is utilized for automation purposes. The vulnerability arises from the absence of proper security controls that restrict which Python libraries can be imported and executed within the scripting… | ||
| CVE-2025-9055 | Med | 0.42 | 6.4 | 0.00 | Nov 11, 2025 | The VAPIX Edge storage API that allowed a privilege escalation, enabling a VAPIX administrator-privileged user to gain Linux Root privileges. This flaw can only be exploited after authenticating with an administrator-privileged service account. | ||
| CVE-2024-47120 | Med | 0.42 | 6.4 | 0.00 | Sep 10, 2025 | IBM Security Verify Information Queue 10.0.5, 10.0.6, 10.0.7, and 10.0.8 could allow a privileged user to escalate their privileges and attack surface on the host due to the containers running with unnecessary privileges. | ||
| CVE-2025-24331 | Med | 0.42 | 6.4 | 0.00 | Jul 2, 2025 | The Single RAN baseband OAM service is intended to run as an unprivileged service. However, it initially starts with root privileges and assigns certain capabilities before dropping to an unprivileged level. The capabilities retained from the root period are considered extensive… | ||
| CVE-2025-0921 | Med | 0.42 | 6.5 | 0.00 | May 15, 2025 | Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability in multiple services of Mitsubishi Electric GENESIS64 versions 10.97.3 and prior, Mitsubishi Electric ICONICS Suite versions 10.97.3 and prior, Mitsubishi Electric MobileHMI versions 10.97.3 and prior, Mitsubishi Electric Hyper… | ||
| CVE-2024-51722 | Med | 0.42 | 6.4 | 0.00 | Nov 12, 2024 | A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the SecuSUITE Server (System Configuration) of SecuSUITE versions 5.0.420 and earlier could allow a successful attacker that had gained control of code running under one of the system accounts listed in the configuration file to… | ||
| CVE-2024-7041 | Med | 0.42 | 6.5 | 0.00 | Oct 9, 2024 | An Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerability exists in open-webui/open-webui version v0.3.8. The vulnerability occurs in the API endpoint `http://0.0.0.0:3000/api/v1/memories/{id}/update`, where the decentralization design is flawed, allowing attackers to edit other… | ||
| CVE-2024-20478 | Med | 0.42 | 6.5 | 0.01 | Aug 28, 2024 | A vulnerability in the software upgrade component of Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) and Cisco Cloud Network Controller, formerly Cisco Cloud APIC, could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with Administrator-level privileges to install a… | ||
| CVE-2023-30617 | Med | 0.42 | 6.5 | 0.00 | Jan 3, 2024 | Kruise provides automated management of large-scale applications on Kubernetes. Starting in version 0.8.0 and prior to versions 1.3.1, 1.4.1, and 1.5.2, an attacker who has gained root privilege of the node that kruise-daemon run can leverage the kruise-daemon pod to list all… | ||
| CVE-2022-41950 | Med | 0.42 | 6.4 | 0.00 | Nov 22, 2022 | super-xray is the GUI alternative for vulnerability scanning tool xray. In 0.2-beta, a privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered. This caused inaccurate default xray permissions. Note: this vulnerability only affects Linux and Mac OS systems. Users should upgrade to… | ||
| CVE-2018-10872 | Med | 0.42 | 6.5 | 0.00 | Jul 10, 2018 | A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled exceptions delivered after a stack switch operation via Mov SS or Pop SS instructions. During the stack switch operation, processor does not deliver interrupts and exceptions, they are delivered once the first instruction… | ||
| CVE-2019-16765 | Hig | 0.41 | 7.4 | 0.05 | Nov 25, 2019 | If an attacker can get a user to open a specially prepared directory tree as a workspace in Visual Studio Code with the CodeQL extension active, arbitrary code of the attacker's choosing may be executed on the user's behalf. This is fixed in version 1.0.1 of the extension. Users… |
- 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 0.00
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…
- risk 0.42cvss 6.4epss 0.00
Dell Secure Connect Gateway (SCG) 5.0 Appliance and Application, version(s) versions 5.26 to 5.30, contain(s) an Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Elevation…
- risk 0.42cvss 6.4epss 0.00
The vulnerability affects Ignition SCADA applications where Python scripting is utilized for automation purposes. The vulnerability arises from the absence of proper security controls that restrict which Python libraries can be imported and executed within the scripting…
- risk 0.42cvss 6.4epss 0.00
The VAPIX Edge storage API that allowed a privilege escalation, enabling a VAPIX administrator-privileged user to gain Linux Root privileges. This flaw can only be exploited after authenticating with an administrator-privileged service account.
- risk 0.42cvss 6.4epss 0.00
IBM Security Verify Information Queue 10.0.5, 10.0.6, 10.0.7, and 10.0.8 could allow a privileged user to escalate their privileges and attack surface on the host due to the containers running with unnecessary privileges.
- risk 0.42cvss 6.4epss 0.00
The Single RAN baseband OAM service is intended to run as an unprivileged service. However, it initially starts with root privileges and assigns certain capabilities before dropping to an unprivileged level. The capabilities retained from the root period are considered extensive…
- risk 0.42cvss 6.5epss 0.00
Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability in multiple services of Mitsubishi Electric GENESIS64 versions 10.97.3 and prior, Mitsubishi Electric ICONICS Suite versions 10.97.3 and prior, Mitsubishi Electric MobileHMI versions 10.97.3 and prior, Mitsubishi Electric Hyper…
- risk 0.42cvss 6.4epss 0.00
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the SecuSUITE Server (System Configuration) of SecuSUITE versions 5.0.420 and earlier could allow a successful attacker that had gained control of code running under one of the system accounts listed in the configuration file to…
- risk 0.42cvss 6.5epss 0.00
An Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerability exists in open-webui/open-webui version v0.3.8. The vulnerability occurs in the API endpoint `http://0.0.0.0:3000/api/v1/memories/{id}/update`, where the decentralization design is flawed, allowing attackers to edit other…
- risk 0.42cvss 6.5epss 0.01
A vulnerability in the software upgrade component of Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) and Cisco Cloud Network Controller, formerly Cisco Cloud APIC, could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with Administrator-level privileges to install a…
- risk 0.42cvss 6.5epss 0.00
Kruise provides automated management of large-scale applications on Kubernetes. Starting in version 0.8.0 and prior to versions 1.3.1, 1.4.1, and 1.5.2, an attacker who has gained root privilege of the node that kruise-daemon run can leverage the kruise-daemon pod to list all…
- risk 0.42cvss 6.4epss 0.00
super-xray is the GUI alternative for vulnerability scanning tool xray. In 0.2-beta, a privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered. This caused inaccurate default xray permissions. Note: this vulnerability only affects Linux and Mac OS systems. Users should upgrade to…
- risk 0.42cvss 6.5epss 0.00
A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled exceptions delivered after a stack switch operation via Mov SS or Pop SS instructions. During the stack switch operation, processor does not deliver interrupts and exceptions, they are delivered once the first instruction…
- risk 0.41cvss 7.4epss 0.05
If an attacker can get a user to open a specially prepared directory tree as a workspace in Visual Studio Code with the CodeQL extension active, arbitrary code of the attacker's choosing may be executed on the user's behalf. This is fixed in version 1.0.1 of the extension. Users…