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 15 of 19| CVE | Vendor / Product | Sev | Risk | CVSS | EPSS | KEV | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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-2025-9055 | 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… | ||
| CVE-2026-75092 | Hig | 0.40 | 7.3 | 0.00 | Sep 15, 2026 | 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-2025-58431 | Med | 0.40 | 6.2 | 0.00 | Sep 17, 2025 | 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-2024-28140 | Med | 0.40 | 6.1 | 0.00 | Dec 11, 2024 | 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-2026-20017 | Med | 0.39 | 6.0 | 0.00 | Mar 4, 2026 | 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-2023-20210 | Med | 0.39 | 6.0 | 0.00 | Jul 12, 2023 | 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-2019-16784 | Hig | 0.39 | 7.0 | 0.01 | Jan 14, 2020 | 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-2026-46618 | Med | 0.38 | — | 0.00 | Jun 10, 2026 | 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… |
- 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
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 …
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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"…
- 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…