VYPR

CWE-273

Improper Check for Dropped Privileges

BaseIncompleteLikelihood: Medium

Description

The product attempts to drop privileges but does not check or incorrectly checks to see if the drop succeeded.

If the drop fails, the product will continue to run with the raised privileges, which might provide additional access to unprivileged users.

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CVEs mapped to this weakness (46)

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  • CVE-2021-37839MedJul 6, 2022
    risk 0.21cvss 4.3epss 0.01

    Apache Superset up to 1.5.1 allowed for authenticated users to access metadata information related to datasets they have no permission on. This metadata included the dataset name, columns and metrics.

  • CVE-2024-21848LowApr 5, 2024
    risk 0.20cvss 3.1epss 0.00

    Improper Access Control in Mattermost Server versions 8.1.x before 8.1.11 allows an attacker that is in a channel with an active call to keep participating in the call even if they are removed from the channel

  • CVE-2026-60085HigJul 15, 2026
    risk 0.00cvss 7.5epss 0.00

    PraisonAI before 4.6.78 contains an unenforced security policy vulnerability in the default Subprocess Sandbox backend where blocked_commands, blocked_paths, blocked_imports, allow_subprocess, and allow_file_write restrictions are completely ignored. Attackers can execute…

  • CVE-2025-62175MedOct 13, 2025
    risk 0.00cvss 4.3epss 0.00

    Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. In versions before 4.4.6, 4.3.14, and 4.2.27, disabling or suspending a user account does not disconnect the account from the streaming API. This allows disabled or suspended accounts to continue…

  • CVE-2022-0358HigAug 29, 2022
    risk 0.00cvss 7.8epss 0.00

    A flaw was found in the QEMU virtio-fs shared file system daemon (virtiofsd) implementation. This flaw is strictly related to CVE-2018-13405. A local guest user can create files in the directories shared by virtio-fs with unintended group ownership in a scenario where a…

  • CVE-2015-0278May 18, 2015
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.03

    libuv before 0.10.34 does not properly drop group privileges, which allows context-dependent attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.