VYPR

CWE-269

Improper Privilege Management

ClassDraftLikelihood: Medium

Description

The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

Hierarchy (View 1000)

Related attack patterns (CAPEC)

CAPEC-122 · CAPEC-233 · CAPEC-58

CVEs mapped to this weakness (3,267)

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  • CVE-2019-1388HigKEVNov 12, 2019
    risk 0.69cvss 7.8epss 0.09

    An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Windows Certificate Dialog when it does not properly enforce user privileges, aka 'Windows Certificate Dialog Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

  • CVE-2022-24637CriMar 18, 2022
    risk 0.68cvss 9.8epss 0.99

    Open Web Analytics (OWA) before 1.7.4 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to obtain sensitive user information, which can be used to gain admin privileges by leveraging cache hashes. This occurs because files generated with '<?php (instead of the intended "<?php sequence)…

  • CVE-2022-25089CriMar 3, 2022
    risk 0.68cvss 9.8epss 0.18

    Printix Secure Cloud Print Management through 1.3.1106.0 incorrectly uses Privileged APIs to modify values in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE via UITasks.PersistentRegistryData.

  • CVE-2014-4170CriFeb 13, 2020
    risk 0.68cvss 9.8epss 0.14

    A Privilege Escalation Vulnerability exists in Free Reprintables ArticleFR 11.06.2014 due to insufficient access restrictions in the data.php script, which could let a remote malicious user obtain access or modify or delete database information.

  • CVE-2018-12596CriOct 10, 2018
    risk 0.68cvss 9.8epss 0.22

    Episerver Ektron CMS before 9.0 SP3 Site CU 31, 9.1 before SP3 Site CU 45, or 9.2 before SP2 Site CU 22 allows remote attackers to call aspx pages via the "activateuser.aspx" page, even if a page is located under the /WorkArea/ path, which is forbidden (normally available…

  • CVE-2018-9022CriJun 18, 2018
    risk 0.68cvss 9.8epss 0.20

    An authentication bypass vulnerability in CA Privileged Access Manager 2.8.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or commands by poisoning a configuration file.

  • CVE-2018-9021CriJun 18, 2018
    risk 0.68cvss 9.8epss 0.19

    An authentication bypass vulnerability in CA Privileged Access Manager 2.8.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands with specially crafted requests.

  • CVE-2017-12635CriNov 14, 2017
    risk 0.68cvss 9.8epss 1.00

    Due to differences in the Erlang-based JSON parser and JavaScript-based JSON parser, it is possible in Apache CouchDB before 1.7.0 and 2.x before 2.1.1 to submit _users documents with duplicate keys for 'roles' used for access control within the database, including the special…

  • CVE-2025-8489CriOct 31, 2025
    risk 0.67cvss 9.8epss 0.09

    The King Addons for Elementor – Free Elements, Widgets, Templates, and Features for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions 24.12.92 to 51.1.14 . This is due to the plugin not properly restricting the roles that users can register with.…

  • CVE-2022-32272CriJun 9, 2022
    risk 0.67cvss 9.8epss 0.09

    OPSWAT MetaDefender Core before 5.1.2, MetaDefender ICAP before 4.12.1, and MetaDefender Email Gateway Security before 5.6.1 have incorrect access control, resulting in privilege escalation.

  • CVE-2022-0441CriMar 7, 2022
    risk 0.67cvss 9.8epss 0.85

    The MasterStudy LMS WordPress plugin before 2.7.6 does to validate some parameters given when registering a new account, allowing unauthenticated users to register as an admin

  • CVE-2018-1002105CriDec 5, 2018
    risk 0.67cvss 9.8epss 0.87

    In all Kubernetes versions prior to v1.10.11, v1.11.5, and v1.12.3, incorrect handling of error responses to proxied upgrade requests in the kube-apiserver allowed specially crafted requests to establish a connection through the Kubernetes API server to backend servers, then…

  • CVE-2017-7312CriJun 7, 2017
    risk 0.67cvss 9.8epss 0.03

    An issue was discovered in Personify360 e-Business 7.5.2 through 7.6.1. When going to the /TabId/275 URI, anyone can add a vendor account or read existing vendor account data (including usernames and passwords).

  • CVE-2025-20282CriJun 25, 2025
    risk 0.66cvss 10.0epss 0.27

    A vulnerability in an internal API of Cisco ISE and Cisco ISE-PIC could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to upload arbitrary files to an affected device and then execute those files on the underlying operating system as root. This vulnerability is due a lack of file…

  • CVE-2023-20048CriNov 1, 2023
    risk 0.66cvss 9.9epss 0.16

    A vulnerability in the web services interface of Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC) Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute certain unauthorized configuration commands on a Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) device that is managed by the FMC Software.…

  • CVE-2021-1388CriFeb 24, 2021
    risk 0.66cvss 10.0epss 0.14

    A vulnerability in an API endpoint of Cisco ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator (MSO) installed on the Application Services Engine could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper token validation on a…

  • CVE-2020-3950HigKEVMar 17, 2020
    risk 0.66cvss 7.8epss 0.07

    VMware Fusion (11.x before 11.5.2), VMware Remote Console for Mac (11.x and prior before 11.0.1) and Horizon Client for Mac (5.x and prior before 5.4.0) contain a privilege escalation vulnerability due to improper use of setuid binaries. Successful exploitation of this issue may…

  • CVE-2018-10143CriDec 12, 2018
    risk 0.66cvss 9.8epss 0.25

    The Palo Alto Networks Expedition Migration tool 1.0.107 and earlier may allow an unauthenticated attacker with remote access to run system level commands on the device hosting this service/application.

  • CVE-2002-0367HigKEVJun 25, 2002
    risk 0.66cvss 7.8epss 0.05

    smss.exe debugging subsystem in Windows NT and Windows 2000 does not properly authenticate programs that connect to other programs, which allows local users to gain administrator or SYSTEM privileges by duplicating a handle to a privileged process, as demonstrated by DebPloit.

  • CVE-2025-6934CriJul 1, 2025
    risk 0.65cvss 9.8epss 0.25

    The Opal Estate Pro – Property Management and Submission plugin for WordPress, used by the FullHouse - Real Estate Responsive WordPress Theme, is vulnerable to privilege escalation via in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.5. This is due to a lack of role restriction…