VYPR

CWE-250

Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

BaseDraftLikelihood: Medium

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)

Children

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Related attack patterns (CAPEC)

CAPEC-104 · CAPEC-470 · CAPEC-69

CVEs mapped to this weakness (358)

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  • CVE-2023-2002MedMay 26, 2023
    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…

  • CVE-2022-1744MedJun 24, 2022
    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.

  • CVE-2020-10290MedAug 21, 2020
    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…

  • CVE-2020-10684HigMar 24, 2020
    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…

  • CVE-2026-4498HigApr 8, 2026
    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…

  • CVE-2025-5196MedMay 26, 2025
    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…

  • CVE-2026-71846MedAug 12, 2026
    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…

  • CVE-2025-46696MedJan 6, 2026
    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…

  • CVE-2025-13911MedDec 18, 2025
    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…

  • CVE-2025-9055MedNov 11, 2025
    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.

  • CVE-2024-47120MedSep 10, 2025
    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.

  • CVE-2025-24331MedJul 2, 2025
    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…

  • CVE-2025-0921MedMay 15, 2025
    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…

  • CVE-2024-51722MedNov 12, 2024
    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…

  • CVE-2024-7041MedOct 9, 2024
    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…

  • CVE-2024-20478MedAug 28, 2024
    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…

  • CVE-2023-30617MedJan 3, 2024
    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…

  • CVE-2022-41950MedNov 22, 2022
    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…

  • CVE-2018-10872MedJul 10, 2018
    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…

  • CVE-2019-16765HigNov 25, 2019
    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…