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.

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Children

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Related attack patterns (CAPEC)

CAPEC-104 · CAPEC-470 · CAPEC-69

CVEs mapped to this weakness (373)

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  • 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

    Ignition by Inductive Automation, when installed with default OS service account settings, may expose the host system to an elevated code execution risk via the gateway backup restore functionality. An authenticated user with Gateway Administrator privileges can import a …

  • 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…

  • CVE-2026-75092HigSep 15, 2026
    risk 0.40cvss 7.3epss 0.00

    A privilege escalation flaw was found in the scan_mysql actor of leapp-upgrade-el9toel10 (provided by leapp-repository). During RHEL 9 to RHEL 10 upgrades, the actor runs: mysqld --validate-config --log-error-verbosity=2 directly as root in the Leapp actor context, bypassing the…

  • 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…