CWE-270
Privilege Context Switching Error
Description
The product does not properly manage privileges while it is switching between different contexts that have different privileges or spheres of control.
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Related attack patterns (CAPEC)
CAPEC-17 · CAPEC-30 · CAPEC-35
CVEs mapped to this weakness (26)
page 1 of 2| CVE | Vendor / Product | Sev | Risk | CVSS | EPSS | KEV | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2023-26475 | Cri | 0.62 | 9.9 | 0.64 | Mar 2, 2023 | XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Starting in version 2.3-milestone-1, the annotation displayer does not execute the content in a restricted context. This allows executing anything with the right of the author of any document by annotating the document. This has been… | ||
| CVE-2024-11263 | Cri | 0.60 | 9.3 | 0.00 | Nov 15, 2024 | When the Global Pointer (GP) relative addressing is enabled (CONFIG_RISCV_GP=y), the gp reg points at 0x800 bytes past the start of the .sdata section which is then used by the linker to relax accesses to global symbols. | ||
| CVE-2023-37912 | Cri | 0.57 | 9.9 | 0.01 | Oct 25, 2023 | XWiki Rendering is a generic Rendering system that converts textual input in a given syntax into another syntax. Prior to version 14.10.6 of `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-core-rendering-macro-footnotes` and `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-rendering-macro-footnotes` and prior to version… | ||
| CVE-2023-25754 | Cri | 0.57 | 9.8 | 0.02 | May 8, 2023 | Privilege Context Switching Error vulnerability in Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow.This issue affects Apache Airflow: before 2.6.0. | ||
| CVE-2019-14819 | Hig | 0.57 | 8.8 | 0.01 | Jan 7, 2020 | A flaw was found during the upgrade of an existing OpenShift Container Platform 3.x cluster. Using CRI-O, the dockergc service account is assigned to the current namespace of the user performing the upgrade. This flaw can allow an unprivileged user to escalate their privileges… | ||
| CVE-2025-9408 | Hig | 0.53 | 8.1 | 0.00 | Nov 11, 2025 | System call entry on Cortex M (and possibly R and A, but I think not) has a race which allows very practical privilege escalation for malicious userspace processes. | ||
| CVE-2024-36513 | Hig | 0.53 | 8.2 | 0.00 | Nov 12, 2024 | A privilege context switching error vulnerability [CWE-270] in FortiClient Windows version 7.2.4 and below, version 7.0.12 and below, 6.4 all versions may allow an authenticated user to escalate their privileges via lua auto patch scripts. | ||
| CVE-2026-9560 | Hig | 0.51 | 7.8 | 0.01 | May 26, 2026 | Privilege escalation via background service of OpenVPN Connect 3.5.1 through 3.8.1 on macOS allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges via local IPC channel | ||
| CVE-2025-60721 | Hig | 0.51 | 7.8 | 0.00 | Nov 11, 2025 | Privilege context switching error in Windows Administrator Protection allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally. | ||
| CVE-2024-46975 | Hig | 0.51 | 7.9 | 0.00 | Feb 22, 2025 | Kernel software installed and running inside a Guest VM may exploit memory shared with the GPU Firmware to write data into another Guest's virtualised GPU memory. | ||
| CVE-2026-34853 | Hig | 0.50 | 7.7 | 0.00 | Apr 13, 2026 | Permission bypass vulnerability in the LBS module. Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability. | ||
| CVE-2025-49581 | Hig | 0.50 | 8.8 | 0.01 | Jun 13, 2025 | XWiki is a generic wiki platform. Any user with edit right on a page (could be the user's profile) can execute code (Groovy, Python, Velocity) with programming right by defining a wiki macro. This allows full access to the whole XWiki installation. The main problem is that if a… | ||
| CVE-2024-12570 | Med | 0.44 | 6.7 | 0.00 | Dec 12, 2024 | An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 13.7 prior to 17.4.6, from 17.5 prior to 17.5.4, and from 17.6 prior to 17.6.2. It may have been possible for an attacker with a victim's `CI_JOB_TOKEN` to obtain a GitLab session token belonging… | ||
| CVE-2020-7019 | Med | 0.42 | 6.5 | 0.01 | Aug 18, 2020 | In Elasticsearch before 7.9.0 and 6.8.12 a field disclosure flaw was found when running a scrolling search with Field Level Security. If a user runs the same query another more privileged user recently ran, the scrolling search can leak fields that should be hidden. This could… | ||
| CVE-2025-26499 | — | Med | 0.39 | 6.0 | 0.00 | Sep 11, 2025 | Under heavy system utilization a random race condition can occur during authentication or token refresh operation. This flaw allows one user to be granted a token intended for another user, resulting in impersonation until the session is ended. This flaw cannot be intentionally… | |
| CVE-2024-8641 | Med | 0.37 | 6.7 | 0.00 | Sep 12, 2024 | An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 13.7 prior to 17.1.7, from 17.2 prior to 17.2.5, and from 17.3 prior to 17.3.2. It may have been possible for an attacker with a victim's CI_JOB_TOKEN to obtain a GitLab session token belonging to… | ||
| CVE-2025-46406 | Med | 0.36 | 5.6 | 0.00 | Jul 10, 2025 | A Privilege Context Switching Error (CWE-270) in the Command Center Server could allow a privileged Operator with high level access in one Division to perform limited privileged activities across the Division boundary. This issue affects Command Centre Server: 9.30 prior to… | ||
| CVE-2020-1719 | Med | 0.35 | 5.4 | 0.01 | Jun 7, 2021 | A flaw was found in wildfly. The EJBContext principle is not popped back after invoking another EJB using a different Security Domain. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity. Versions before wildfly 20.0.0.Final are affected. | ||
| CVE-2024-47173 | Med | 0.29 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Oct 24, 2024 | Aimeos is an e-commerce framework. All SaaS and marketplace setups using the Aimeos GraphQL API admin interface version from 2024.04 up to 2024.07.1 are affected by a potential denial of service attack. Version 2024.07.2 fixes the issue. | ||
| CVE-2024-37294 | Med | 0.29 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Jun 11, 2024 | Aimeos is an Open Source e-commerce framework for online shops. All SaaS and marketplace setups using Aimeos version from 2022/2023/2024 are affected by a potential denial of service attack. Users should upgrade to versions 2022.10.17, 2023.10.17, or 2024.04 of the… |
- risk 0.62cvss 9.9epss 0.64
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Starting in version 2.3-milestone-1, the annotation displayer does not execute the content in a restricted context. This allows executing anything with the right of the author of any document by annotating the document. This has been…
- risk 0.60cvss 9.3epss 0.00
When the Global Pointer (GP) relative addressing is enabled (CONFIG_RISCV_GP=y), the gp reg points at 0x800 bytes past the start of the .sdata section which is then used by the linker to relax accesses to global symbols.
- risk 0.57cvss 9.9epss 0.01
XWiki Rendering is a generic Rendering system that converts textual input in a given syntax into another syntax. Prior to version 14.10.6 of `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-core-rendering-macro-footnotes` and `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-rendering-macro-footnotes` and prior to version…
- risk 0.57cvss 9.8epss 0.02
Privilege Context Switching Error vulnerability in Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow.This issue affects Apache Airflow: before 2.6.0.
- risk 0.57cvss 8.8epss 0.01
A flaw was found during the upgrade of an existing OpenShift Container Platform 3.x cluster. Using CRI-O, the dockergc service account is assigned to the current namespace of the user performing the upgrade. This flaw can allow an unprivileged user to escalate their privileges…
- risk 0.53cvss 8.1epss 0.00
System call entry on Cortex M (and possibly R and A, but I think not) has a race which allows very practical privilege escalation for malicious userspace processes.
- risk 0.53cvss 8.2epss 0.00
A privilege context switching error vulnerability [CWE-270] in FortiClient Windows version 7.2.4 and below, version 7.0.12 and below, 6.4 all versions may allow an authenticated user to escalate their privileges via lua auto patch scripts.
- risk 0.51cvss 7.8epss 0.01
Privilege escalation via background service of OpenVPN Connect 3.5.1 through 3.8.1 on macOS allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges via local IPC channel
- risk 0.51cvss 7.8epss 0.00
Privilege context switching error in Windows Administrator Protection allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
- risk 0.51cvss 7.9epss 0.00
Kernel software installed and running inside a Guest VM may exploit memory shared with the GPU Firmware to write data into another Guest's virtualised GPU memory.
- risk 0.50cvss 7.7epss 0.00
Permission bypass vulnerability in the LBS module. Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.
- risk 0.50cvss 8.8epss 0.01
XWiki is a generic wiki platform. Any user with edit right on a page (could be the user's profile) can execute code (Groovy, Python, Velocity) with programming right by defining a wiki macro. This allows full access to the whole XWiki installation. The main problem is that if a…
- risk 0.44cvss 6.7epss 0.00
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 13.7 prior to 17.4.6, from 17.5 prior to 17.5.4, and from 17.6 prior to 17.6.2. It may have been possible for an attacker with a victim's `CI_JOB_TOKEN` to obtain a GitLab session token belonging…
- risk 0.42cvss 6.5epss 0.01
In Elasticsearch before 7.9.0 and 6.8.12 a field disclosure flaw was found when running a scrolling search with Field Level Security. If a user runs the same query another more privileged user recently ran, the scrolling search can leak fields that should be hidden. This could…
- risk 0.39cvss 6.0epss 0.00
Under heavy system utilization a random race condition can occur during authentication or token refresh operation. This flaw allows one user to be granted a token intended for another user, resulting in impersonation until the session is ended. This flaw cannot be intentionally…
- risk 0.37cvss 6.7epss 0.00
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 13.7 prior to 17.1.7, from 17.2 prior to 17.2.5, and from 17.3 prior to 17.3.2. It may have been possible for an attacker with a victim's CI_JOB_TOKEN to obtain a GitLab session token belonging to…
- risk 0.36cvss 5.6epss 0.00
A Privilege Context Switching Error (CWE-270) in the Command Center Server could allow a privileged Operator with high level access in one Division to perform limited privileged activities across the Division boundary. This issue affects Command Centre Server: 9.30 prior to…
- risk 0.35cvss 5.4epss 0.01
A flaw was found in wildfly. The EJBContext principle is not popped back after invoking another EJB using a different Security Domain. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity. Versions before wildfly 20.0.0.Final are affected.
- risk 0.29cvss 5.5epss 0.00
Aimeos is an e-commerce framework. All SaaS and marketplace setups using the Aimeos GraphQL API admin interface version from 2024.04 up to 2024.07.1 are affected by a potential denial of service attack. Version 2024.07.2 fixes the issue.
- risk 0.29cvss 5.5epss 0.00
Aimeos is an Open Source e-commerce framework for online shops. All SaaS and marketplace setups using Aimeos version from 2022/2023/2024 are affected by a potential denial of service attack. Users should upgrade to versions 2022.10.17, 2023.10.17, or 2024.04 of the…