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-2025-58431MedSep 17, 2025
    risk 0.40cvss 6.2epss 0.00

    ZimaOS is a fork of CasaOS, an operating system for Zima devices and x86-64 systems with UEFI. In version 1.4.1 and earlier, the /v2_1/files/file/download endpoint allows file read from ANY USER who has access to localhost. File reads are performed AS ROOT.

  • CVE-2024-28140MedDec 11, 2024
    risk 0.40cvss 6.1epss 0.00

    The scanner device boots into a kiosk mode by default and opens the Scan2Net interface in a browser window. This browser is run with the permissions of the root user. There are also several other applications running as root user. This can be confirmed by running "ps aux" as…

  • CVE-2026-20017MedMar 4, 2026
    risk 0.39cvss 6.0epss 0.00

    A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Secure FTD Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system as root. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid administrative credentials on an affected…

  • CVE-2023-20210MedJul 12, 2023
    risk 0.39cvss 6.0epss 0.00

    A vulnerability in Cisco BroadWorks could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to the root user on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation by the operating system CLI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability…

  • CVE-2019-16784HigJan 14, 2020
    risk 0.39cvss 7.0epss 0.01

    In PyInstaller before version 3.6, only on Windows, a local privilege escalation vulnerability is present in this particular case: If a software using PyInstaller in "onefile" mode is launched by a privileged user (at least more than the current one) which have his "TempPath"…

  • CVE-2026-46618MedJun 10, 2026
    risk 0.38cvss epss 0.00

    Fission is an open-source, Kubernetes-native serverless framework that simplifies the deployment of functions and applications on Kubernetes. Prior to version 1.23.0, before the round-1 security sweep, pkg/builder/builder.go passed Environment.spec.builder.command directly into…

  • CVE-2025-1790MedFeb 13, 2026
    risk 0.38cvss epss 0.00

    Local privilege escalation in Genetec Sipelia Plugin. An authenticated low-privileged Windows user could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges on the affected system.

  • CVE-2026-25740MedFeb 9, 2026
    risk 0.38cvss epss 0.00

    captive browser, a dedicated Chrome instance to log into captive portals without messing with DNS settings. In 25.05 and earlier, when programs.captive-browser is enabled, any user of the system can run arbitrary commands with the CAP_NET_RAW capability (binding to privileged…

  • CVE-2024-47903MedOct 23, 2024
    risk 0.38cvss 5.8epss 0.00

    A vulnerability has been identified in InterMesh 7177 Hybrid 2.0 Subscriber (All versions < V8.2.12), InterMesh 7707 Fire Subscriber (All versions < V7.2.12 only if the IP interface is enabled (which is not the default configuration)). The web server of affected devices allows…

  • CVE-2023-43018MedNov 3, 2023
    risk 0.38cvss 5.9epss 0.00

    IBM CICS TX Standard 11.1 and Advanced 10.1, 11.1 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. IBM X-Force ID: 266163.

  • CVE-2025-58379MedFeb 3, 2026
    risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00

    Brocade Fabric OS before 9.2.1 has a vulnerability that could allow a local authenticated attacker to reveal command line passwords using commands that may expose higher privilege sensitive information by a lower privileged user.

  • CVE-2021-38118MedNov 22, 2024
    risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00

    Possible improper input validation Vulnerability in iManager has been discovered in OpenText™ iManager 3.2.4.0000.

  • CVE-2024-5042MedMay 17, 2024
    risk 0.36cvss 6.6epss 0.01

    A flaw was found in the Submariner project. Due to unnecessary role-based access control permissions, a privileged attacker can run a malicious container on a node that may allow them to steal service account tokens and further compromise other nodes and potentially the entire…

  • CVE-2023-20217MedAug 16, 2023
    risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00

    A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent, Virtual Appliance installation type, could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation by the operating system…

  • CVE-2021-0256MedApr 22, 2021
    risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00

    A sensitive information disclosure vulnerability in the mosquitto message broker of Juniper Networks Junos OS may allow a locally authenticated user with shell access the ability to read portions of sensitive files, such as the master.passwd file. Since mosquitto is shipped with…

  • CVE-2021-0255MedApr 22, 2021
    risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00

    A local privilege escalation vulnerability in ethtraceroute of Juniper Networks Junos OS may allow a locally authenticated user with shell access to escalate privileges and write to the local filesystem as root. ethtraceroute is shipped with setuid permissions enabled and is…

  • CVE-2019-16767MedNov 29, 2019
    risk 0.36cvss 6.6epss 0.01

    The admin sys mode is now conditional and dedicated for the special case. By default, since [email protected] no instance (container) is launched with advanced capabilities (not launched as root)

  • CVE-2017-7518MedJul 30, 2018
    risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.01

    A flaw was found in the Linux kernel before version 4.12 in the way the KVM module processed the trap flag(TF) bit in EFLAGS during emulation of the syscall instruction, which leads to a debug exception(#DB) being raised in the guest stack. A user/process inside a guest could…

  • CVE-2026-11626MedJun 10, 2026
    risk 0.35cvss epss 0.00

    CleanWipe Removal Tool (macOS), prior to 16.0.0.65, may be susceptible to an Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an attacker with limited privilege access on an affected system can escalate their privileges to gain administrative control.

  • CVE-2024-20420MedOct 16, 2024
    risk 0.35cvss 5.4epss 0.00

    A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco ATA 190 Series Analog Telephone Adapter firmware could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with low privileges to run commands as an Admin user. This vulnerability is due to incorrect authorization…