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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.

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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
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 session IDs from the database.Show less
3Canonical
DebianSamba
3Debian Linux
SambaUbuntu Linux
Apr 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
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 cause the daemon to transition to the root user.Show less
2Gnu
Oracle
2Gzip
Solaris
Apr 16, 2026
Oct 4, 2004
N/A· v4
N/A· v3
2.1 LOW· v2
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 Nt
Apr 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
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.Show less
2Redhat
Samba
2Linux
Rsync
Apr 16, 2026
Mar 15, 2002
N/A· v4
N/A· v3
2.1 LOW· v2
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
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 disallowed.Show less
1Microsoft
1Exchange Server
Apr 16, 2026
Mar 8, 2002
N/A· v4
N/A· v3
6.4 MEDIUM· v2
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.
1Sun
1Nfs
Apr 16, 2026
May 1, 1990
N/A· v4
8.4 HIGH· v3
7.2 HIGH· v2
Certain NFS servers allow users to use mknod to gain privileges by creating a writable kmem device and setting the UID to 0.