CWE-269
3,307 CVEs • Abstraction: Class • Likelihood of Exploit: Medium
Improper Privilege Management
The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
CVEs (3,307)
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1Site Documentation Project 1Site Documentation Apr 23, 2026 May 16, 2008 N/A· v4 N/A· v3 5.0 MEDIUM· v2 The Site Documentation Drupal module 5.x before 5.x-1.8 and 6.x before 6.x-1.1 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges of other users by leveraging the "access content" permission to list tables and obtain s...Show more |
3Canonical DebianSamba3Debian Linux SambaUbuntu LinuxApr 23, 2026 May 14, 2007 N/A· v4 N/A· v3 7.2 HIGH· v2 Logic error in the SID/Name translation functionality in smbd in Samba 3.0.23d through 3.0.25pre2 allows local users to gain temporary privileges and execute SMB/CIFS protocol operations via unspecified vectors that caus...Show more |
gzip before 1.3 in Solaris 8, when called with the -f or -force flags, will change the permissions of files that are hard linked to the target files, which allows local users to view or modify these files. |
1Microsoft 2Windows 2000 Windows NtApr 16, 2026 Jun 25, 2002 N/A· v4 7.8 HIGH· v3 7.2 HIGH· v2 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 han...Show more |
rsync, when running in daemon mode, does not properly call setgroups before dropping privileges, which could provide supplemental group privileges to local users, who could then read certain files that would otherwise be...Show more |
Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 System Attendant gives "Everyone" group privileges to the WinReg key, which could allow remote attackers to read or modify registry keys. |
Certain NFS servers allow users to use mknod to gain privileges by creating a writable kmem device and setting the UID to 0. |