CWE-269— 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.— MITRE CWE catalog
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CVEs classified under CWE-269page 41 of 95
- CVE-2021-26697MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32021-02-17
The lineage endpoint of the deprecated Experimental API was not protected by authentication in Airflow 2.0.0. This allowed unauthenticated users to hit that endpoint. This is low-severity issue as the attacker needs to be aware of certain …
- CVE-2021-26708HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.02021-02-05
A local privilege escalation was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.10.13. Multiple race conditions in the AF_VSOCK implementation are caused by wrong locking in net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c. The race conditions were implicitly introduced…
- CVE-2021-26734MEDIUMCVSS 4.4EG 4.42023-10-23
Zscaler Client Connector Installer on Windows before version 3.4.0.124 improperly handled directory junctions during uninstallation. A local adversary may be able to delete folders in an elevated context.
- CVE-2021-26758HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-04-07
Privilege Escalation in LiteSpeed Technologies OpenLiteSpeed web server version 1.7.8 allows attackers to gain root terminal access and execute commands on the host system.
- CVE-2021-26860HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-03-11
Windows App-V Overlay Filter Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-26862HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.82021-03-11
Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-26863HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.02021-03-11
Windows Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-26864HIGHCVSS 8.4EG 8.42021-03-11
Windows Virtual Registry Provider Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-26865HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-03-11
Windows Container Execution Agent Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-26866HIGHCVSS 7.1EG 7.12021-03-11
Windows Update Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-26868HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-03-11
Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-26870HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-03-11
Windows Projected File System Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-26871HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-03-11
Windows WalletService Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-26872HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-03-11
Windows Event Tracing Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-26873HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.82021-03-11
Windows User Profile Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-26874HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-03-11
Windows Overlay Filter Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-26875HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-03-11
Windows Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-26878HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-03-11
Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-26880HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-03-11
Storage Spaces Controller Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-26882HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-03-11
Remote Access API Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-26885HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-03-11
Windows WalletService Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-26887HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-03-11
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows when Folder redirection has been enabled via Group Policy. When folder redirection file server is co-located with Terminal server, an attacker who successfully exploite…
- CVE-2021-26889HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-03-11
Windows Update Stack Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-26891HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-03-11
Windows Container Execution Agent Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-26898HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-03-11
Windows Event Tracing Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-26899HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-03-11
Windows UPnP Device Host Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-26900HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-03-11
Windows Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-26901HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-03-11
Windows Event Tracing Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-26909MEDIUMCVSS 3.7EG 5.32021-04-23
Automox Agent prior to version 31 uses an insufficiently protected S3 bucket endpoint for storing sensitive files, which could be brute-forced by an attacker to subvert an organization's security program. The issue has since been fixed in …
- CVE-2021-26936HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-02-10
The replay-sorcery program in ReplaySorcery 0.4.0 through 0.5.0, when using the default setuid-root configuration, allows a local attacker to escalate privileges to root by specifying video output paths in privileged locations.
- CVE-2021-27006MEDIUMCVSS 4.4EG 4.42021-12-23
StorageGRID (formerly StorageGRID Webscale) versions 11.5 prior to 11.5.0.5 are susceptible to a vulnerability which may allow an administrative user to escalate their privileges and modify settings in SANtricity System Manager.
- CVE-2021-27064HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-04-13
Visual Studio Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-27070HIGHCVSS 7.3EG 7.82021-03-11
Windows 10 Update Assistant Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-27072HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.82021-04-13
Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-27077HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-03-11
Windows Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-27086HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-04-13
Windows Services and Controller App Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-27088HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-04-13
Windows Event Tracing Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-27090HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-04-13
Windows Secure Kernel Mode Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-27091HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-04-13
RPC Endpoint Mapper Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-27096HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-04-13
NTFS Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-27192HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-03-25
Local privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows clients of Netop Vision Pro up to and including 9.7.1 allows a local user to gain administrator privileges whilst using the clients.
- CVE-2021-27216MEDIUMCVSS 6.3EG 6.32021-05-06
Exim 4 before 4.94.2 has Execution with Unnecessary Privileges. By leveraging a delete_pid_file race condition, a local user can delete arbitrary files as root. This involves the -oP and -oPX options.
- CVE-2021-27379HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-02-18
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x, allowing x86 Intel HVM guest OS users to achieve unintended read/write DMA access, and possibly cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain privileges. This occurs because a backport mis…
- CVE-2021-27394HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-04-16
A vulnerability has been identified in Mendix Applications using Mendix 7 (All versions < V7.23.19), Mendix Applications using Mendix 8 (All versions < V8.17.0), Mendix Applications using Mendix 8 (V8.12) (All versions < V8.12.5), Mendix A…
- CVE-2021-27445HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-12-21
Mesa Labs AmegaView Versions 3.0 and prior has insecure file permissions that could be exploited to escalate privileges on the device.
- CVE-2021-27448HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-03-25
A miscommunication in the file system allows adversaries with access to the MU320E to escalate privileges on the MU320E (all firmware versions prior to v04A00.1).
- CVE-2021-27454HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-03-25
The software performs an operation at a privilege level higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses on the Reason DR60 (all firmware versions prior to 02A04.1).
- CVE-2021-27483HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-06-16
ZOLL Defibrillator Dashboard, v prior to 2.2,The affected products contain insecure filesystem permissions that could allow a lower privilege user to escalate privileges to an administrative level user.
- CVE-2021-27522HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-04-08
Learnsite 1.2.5.0 contains a remote privilege escalation vulnerability in /Manager/index.aspx through the JudgIsAdmin() function. By modifying the initial letter of the key of a user cookie, the key of the administrator cookie can be obtai…
- CVE-2021-27579HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82021-02-23
Snow Inventory Agent through 6.7.0 on Windows uses CPUID to report on processor types and versions that may be deployed and in use across an IT environment. A privilege-escalation vulnerability exists if CPUID is enabled, and thus it shoul…
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