CWE-250— Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
The product performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses.— MITRE CWE catalog
416 active CVEs classified under this weakness category. Sourced from NVD, GHSA, and vendor advisories. Full definition on MITRE →
CVEs classified under CWE-250page 7 of 9
- CVE-2024-2240HIGHCVSS 7.2EG 7.22025-02-14
Docker daemon in Brocade SANnav before SANnav 2.3.1b runs without auditing. The vulnerability could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute various attacks.
- CVE-2024-21184HIGHCVSS 7.2EG 7.22024-07-16
Vulnerability in the Oracle Database RDBMS Security component of Oracle Database Server. Supported versions that are affected are 19.3-19.23. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker having Execute on SYS.XS_DIAG p…
- CVE-2024-35154HIGHCVSS 7.2EG 7.22024-07-09
IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 and 9.0 could allow a remote authenticated attacker, who has authorized access to the administrative console, to execute arbitrary code. Using specially crafted input, the attacker could exploit this v…
- CVE-2023-4814HIGHCVSS 7.1EG 7.12023-09-14
A Privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Trellix Windows DLP endpoint for windows which can be abused to delete any file/folder for which the user does not have permission to.
- CVE-2026-25710HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.02026-05-13
The new upstream added a privileged D-Bus helper called plasmaloginauthhelper, which suffers from multiple issues, e.g.aA compromised plasmalogin service account can chown() arbitrary files in the system.
- CVE-2025-8907HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.02025-08-13
A vulnerability was found in H3C M2 NAS V100R006. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Webserver Configuration. The manipulation leads to execution with unnecessary privileges. An attack has to be app…
- CVE-2025-6019HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.02025-06-19
A Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerability was found in libblockdev. Generally, the "allow_active" setting in Polkit permits a physically present user to take certain actions based on the session type. Due to the way libblockdev inte…
- CVE-2024-13090HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.02025-06-10
A privilege escalation vulnerability may enable a service account to elevate its privileges. The sudo rules configured for a local service account were excessively permissive, potentially allowing administrative access if a malicious ac…
- CVE-2024-6030HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.02025-04-30
Tesla Model S oFono Unnecessary Privileges Sandbox Escape Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows local attackers to escape the sandbox on affected Tesla Model S vehicles. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute code within t…
- CVE-2025-0120HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.02025-04-11
A vulnerability with a privilege management mechanism in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ app on Windows devices allows a locally authenticated non-administrative Windows user to escalate their privileges to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. How…
- CVE-2019-16784HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.02020-01-14
In PyInstaller before version 3.6, only on Windows, a local privilege escalation vulnerability is present in this particular case: If a software using PyInstaller in "onefile" mode is launched by a privileged user (at least more than the c…
- CVE-2019-10143HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.02019-05-24
It was discovered freeradius up to and including version 3.0.19 does not correctly configure logrotate, allowing a local attacker who already has control of the radiusd user to escalate his privileges to root, by tricking logrotate into wr…
- CVE-2026-46618MEDIUMCVSS 6.9EG 6.92026-05-21
Fission is an open-source, Kubernetes-native serverless framework that simplifies the deployment of functions and applications on Kubernetes. Prior to version 1.23.0, before the round-1 security sweep, pkg/builder/builder.go passed Environ…
- CVE-2026-40550MEDIUMCVSS 6.9EG 6.92026-04-28
Multiple BinSoft products are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to excessive database privileges assigned to the user used by the application. An attacker with access to any running application instance connected to the backend server…
- CVE-2026-107176MEDIUMCVSS 6.8EG 6.82026-10-07
A flaw was found in the cluster-samples-operator. The RBAC Role coreos-pull-secret-reader in namespace openshift-config grants get, list, and watch permissions on all Secret resources without resourceNames scoping. The operator only requir…
- CVE-2026-102247MEDIUMCVSS 6.8EG 6.82026-09-29
A vulnerability was detected in FastAdmin 1.6.1.20250430/1.6.5.20260602. This affects an unknown function of the file application/database.php of the component Database Management. The manipulation results in execution with unnecessary pri…
- CVE-2025-37128MEDIUMCVSS 6.8EG 6.82025-09-16
A vulnerability in the web API of HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN Gateways could allow an authenticated remote attacker to terminate arbitrary running processes. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to disrupt system ope…
- CVE-2025-43487MEDIUMCVSS 6.8EG 6.82025-07-23
A potential privilege escalation through Sudo vulnerability has been identified in the Poly Clariti Manager for versions prior to 10.12.2. The firmware flaw does not properly implement access controls. HP has addressed the issue in the lat…
- CVE-2023-45592MEDIUMCVSS 6.8EG 6.82024-03-05
A CWE-250 “Execution with Unnecessary Privileges” vulnerability in the embedded Chromium browser (due to the binary being executed with the “--no-sandbox” option and with root privileges) exacerbates the impacts of successful attac…
- CVE-2023-2002MEDIUMCVSS 6.8EG 6.82023-05-26
A vulnerability was found in the HCI sockets implementation due to a missing capability check in net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c in the Linux Kernel. This flaw allows an attacker to unauthorized execution of management commands, compromising the …
- CVE-2022-1744MEDIUMCVSS 6.8EG 6.82022-06-24
Applications on the tested version of Dominion Voting Systems ImageCast X can execute code with elevated privileges by exploiting a system level service. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges on a device and/…
- CVE-2020-10290MEDIUMCVSS 6.8EG 6.82020-08-21
Universal Robots controller execute URCaps (zip files containing Java-powered applications) without any permission restrictions and a wide API that presents many primitives that can compromise the overall robot operations as demonstrated i…
- CVE-2026-121527MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72026-11-11
A execution with unnecessary privileges vulnerability in Fortinet FortiClientEMS 7.4.3 through 7.4.7, FortiClientEMS 7.4.0 through 7.4.1, FortiClientEMS 7.2 all versions may allow an authenticated local attacker with admin privileges to ga…
- CVE-2026-121690MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72026-11-09
FrodoBots EarthRover Mini+ firmware (version 6.2.4_6.2.5_0.614.0) executes code with unnecessary privileges. All processes run as root and the system lacks privilege separation. The compromise of any single service results in full administ…
- CVE-2026-40638MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72026-05-12
Dell PowerScale InsightIQ, versions 5.0.0 through 6.2.0, contains an execution with unnecessary privileges vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to elevation of pr…
- CVE-2026-21426MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72026-03-04
Dell PowerScale OneFS, versions prior to 9.10.1.6 and versions 9.11.0.0 through 9.12.0.1, contains an execution with unnecessary privileges vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerab…
- CVE-2026-21424MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72026-03-04
Dell PowerScale OneFS, versions prior to 9.10.1.6 and versions 9.11.0.0 through 9.12.0.1, contains an execution with unnecessary privileges vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerab…
- CVE-2026-21421MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72026-03-04
Dell PowerScale OneFS, versions prior to 9.10.1.6 and versions 9.11.0.0 through 9.12.0.1, contains an execution with unnecessary privileges vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerab…
- CVE-2025-46696MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72026-01-06
Dell Secure Connect Gateway (SCG) 5.0 Appliance and Application, version(s) versions 5.26 to 5.30, contain(s) an Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit th…
- CVE-2025-21110MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72025-08-14
Dell Data Lakehouse, versions prior to 1.5.0.0, contains an Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Denial of service.
- CVE-2025-3892MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72025-08-12
ACAP applications can be executed with elevated privileges, potentially leading to privilege escalation. This vulnerability can only be exploited if the Axis device is configured to allow the installation of unsigned ACAP applications, an…
- CVE-2024-27146MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72024-06-14
The Toshiba printers do not implement privileges separation. As for the affected products/models/versions, see the reference URL.
- CVE-2024-25967MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72024-05-14
Dell PowerScale OneFS versions 8.2.x through 9.7.0.1 contains an execution with unnecessary privileges vulnerability. A local high privileged attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to escalation of privileges.
- CVE-2023-6006MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72023-11-14
This vulnerability potentially allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of PaperCut NG. An attacker must have local write access to the C Drive. In addition, Print Archiving must be enabled or the attacker ne…
- CVE-2023-32486MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72023-08-16
Dell PowerScale OneFS 9.5.x version contain a privilege escalation vulnerability. A low privilege local attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to escalation of privileges.
- CVE-2020-14386MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72020-09-16
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel before 5.9-rc4. Memory corruption can be exploited to gain root privileges from unprivileged processes. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity.
- CVE-2022-20676MEDIUMCVSS 5.1EG 6.72022-04-15
A vulnerability in the Tool Command Language (Tcl) interpreter of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to escalate from privilege level 15 to root-level privileges. This vulnerability is due to insufficient in…
- CVE-2026-95652MEDIUMCVSS 6.6EG 6.62026-11-05
Execution with unnecessary privileges vulnerability in TÜBİTAK BİLGEM Software Technologies Research Institute pardus-usb-formatter allows Privilege Abuse. This issue affects pardus-usb-formatter: from 0.7.0 before 0.7.2.
- CVE-2025-5196MEDIUMCVSS 6.6EG 6.62025-05-26
A vulnerability has been found in Wing FTP Server up to 7.4.3 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Lua Admin Console. The manipulation leads to execution with unnecessary p…
- CVE-2024-5042MEDIUMCVSS 6.6EG 6.62024-05-17
A flaw was found in the Submariner project. Due to unnecessary role-based access control permissions, a privileged attacker can run a malicious container on a node that may allow them to steal service account tokens and further compromise …
- CVE-2019-16767MEDIUMCVSS 6.6EG 6.62019-11-29
The admin sys mode is now conditional and dedicated for the special case. By default, since [email protected] no instance (container) is launched with advanced capabilities (not launched as root)
- CVE-2026-69409MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52026-09-08
Execution with unnecessary privileges in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows an authorized attacker to disclose information over a network.
- CVE-2026-72654MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52026-09-01
Execution with Unnecessary Privileges (CWE-250) in the Kibana machine learning feature can lead to information disclosure via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). An operation available to users holding only read access to the machine learning fea…
- CVE-2026-71846MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52026-08-12
A flaw was found in insights-client. The component's ServiceAccount is bound to a ClusterRole granting cluster-wide secrets get, list, and watch permissions, while the code only requires access to a single specific Secret. This excessive p…
- CVE-2025-0921MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52025-05-15
Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability in multiple services of Mitsubishi Electric GENESIS64 versions 10.97.3 and prior, Mitsubishi Electric ICONICS Suite versions 10.97.3 and prior, Mitsubishi Electric MobileHMI versions 10.9…
- CVE-2024-7041MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52024-10-09
An Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerability exists in open-webui/open-webui version v0.3.8. The vulnerability occurs in the API endpoint `http://0.0.0.0:3000/api/v1/memories/{id}/update`, where the decentralization design is f…
- CVE-2024-20478MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52024-08-28
A vulnerability in the software upgrade component of Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) and Cisco Cloud Network Controller, formerly Cisco Cloud APIC, could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with Administr…
- CVE-2023-30617MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52024-01-03
Kruise provides automated management of large-scale applications on Kubernetes. Starting in version 0.8.0 and prior to versions 1.3.1, 1.4.1, and 1.5.2, an attacker who has gained root privilege of the node that kruise-daemon run can lever…
- CVE-2018-10872MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52018-07-10
A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled exceptions delivered after a stack switch operation via Mov SS or Pop SS instructions. During the stack switch operation, processor does not deliver interrupts and exceptions, they are d…
- CVE-2023-42954MEDIUMCVSS 4.9EG 6.52024-03-21
A privilege escalation issue existed in FileMaker Server, potentially exposing sensitive information to front-end websites when signed in to the Admin Console with an administrator role. This issue has been fixed in FileMaker Server 20.3.1…
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