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Privilege Escalation

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Privilege escalation occurs when an attacker leverages flaws in access control mechanisms to gain permissions beyond what they were originally granted.

How It Works

Privilege escalation occurs when an attacker leverages flaws in access control mechanisms to gain permissions beyond what they were originally granted. The attack exploits the gap between what the system thinks a user can do and what they actually can do through manipulation or exploitation.

Vertical escalation is the classic form—a regular user obtaining administrator rights. This happens through kernel exploits that bypass OS-level security, misconfigurations in role-based access control (RBAC) that fail to enforce boundaries, or direct manipulation of authorization tokens and session data. Horizontal escalation involves accessing resources belonging to users at the same privilege level, typically through insecure direct object references (IDOR) where changing an ID in a request grants access to another user's data.

Context-dependent escalation exploits workflow logic by skipping authorization checkpoints. An attacker might access administrative URLs directly without going through proper authentication flows, manipulate parameters to bypass permission checks, or exploit REST API endpoints that don't validate method permissions—like a read-only GET permission that can be leveraged for write operations through protocol upgrades or alternative endpoints.

Impact

  • Full system compromise through kernel-level exploits granting root or SYSTEM privileges
  • Administrative control over applications, allowing configuration changes, user management, and deployment of malicious code
  • Lateral movement across cloud infrastructure, containers, or network segments using escalated service account permissions
  • Data exfiltration by accessing databases, file systems, or API endpoints restricted to higher privilege levels
  • Persistence establishment through creation of backdoor accounts or modification of system configurations

Real-World Examples

Kubernetes clusters have been compromised through kubelet API misconfigurations where read-only GET permissions on worker nodes could be escalated to remote code execution. Attackers upgraded HTTP connections to WebSockets to access the /exec endpoint, gaining shell access to all pods on the node. This affected over 69 Helm charts including widely-deployed monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog agents.

Windows Print Spooler vulnerabilities (PrintNightmare class) allowed authenticated users to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges by exploiting improper privilege checks in the print service. Attackers loaded malicious DLLs through carefully crafted print jobs, escalating from low-privilege user accounts to full domain administrator access.

Cloud metadata services have been exploited where SSRF vulnerabilities combined with over-permissioned IAM roles allowed attackers to retrieve temporary credentials with elevated permissions, pivoting from compromised web applications to broader cloud infrastructure access.

Mitigation

  • Enforce deny-by-default access control where permissions must be explicitly granted rather than implicitly allowed
  • Implement consistent authorization checks at every layer—API gateway, application logic, and data access—never relying on client-side or single-point validation
  • Apply principle of least privilege with time-limited, scope-restricted permissions and just-in-time access for administrative functions
  • Audit permission inheritance and role assignments regularly to identify overly permissive configurations or privilege creep
  • Separate execution contexts using containers, sandboxes, or capability-based security to limit blast radius
  • Deploy runtime monitoring for unusual privilege usage patterns and anomalous access to restricted resources

Recent CVEs (14619)

EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2 could allow a user with lower privilege Capabilities to adopt the Capabilities of a higher-privilege user by intercepting the higher-privilege user's cookie. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.0
HIGH This Week

Samsung Account (AKA com.osp.app.signin) before 1.6.0069 and 2.x before 2.1.0069 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information and execute arbitrary code. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.0), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Samsung +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.0
HIGH This Week

GALAXY Apps (aka Samsung Apps, Samsung Updates, or com.sec.android.app.samsungapps) before 14120405.03.012 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information and execute arbitrary. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.0), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Google +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.9
MEDIUM This Month

With OxygenOS before 4.0.3, when a charger is connected to a powered-off OnePlus 3 or 3T device, the platform starts with adbd enabled. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.9), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Oxygenos Oneplus
NVD
EPSS 21% 4.1 CVSS 10.0
CRITICAL POC THREAT Emergency

Local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Gentoo QEMU package before 2.5.0-r1. Rated critical severity (CVSS 10.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and EPSS exploitation probability 21.2%.

Privilege Escalation Race Condition Qemu
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

An issue was discovered in AppArmor before 2.12. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. This Improper Privilege Management vulnerability could allow attackers to escalate privileges to gain unauthorized elevated access.

Privilege Escalation Docker Canonical +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.3
LOW Monitor

Cloudera Manager 4.x, 5.0.x before 5.0.6, 5.1.x before 5.1.5, 5.2.x before 5.2.5, and 5.3.x before 5.3.3 uses global read permissions for files in its configuration directory when starting YARN. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.3), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Cloudera Manager Cloudera
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Apache Hadoop 0.23.x before 0.23.11 and 2.x before 2.4.1, as used in Cloudera CDH 5.0.x before 5.0.2, do not check authorization for the (1) refreshNamenodes, (2) deleteBlockPool, and (3). Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Apache +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.1
LOW Monitor

The JobHistory Server in Cloudera CDH 4.x before 4.6.0 and 5.x before 5.0.0 Beta 2, when using MRv2/YARN with HTTP authentication, allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive job. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Cdh Cloudera
NVD
EPSS 52% 5.0 CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC THREAT Emergency

The Konke Smart Plug K does not require authentication for TELNET sessions, which allows remote attackers to obtain "equipment management authority" via TCP traffic to port 23. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and EPSS exploitation probability 51.6%.

Privilege Escalation Konke Smart Plug Firmware
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Nessus 6.6.2 - 6.10.3 contains a flaw related to insecure permissions that may allow a local attacker to escalate privileges when the software is running in Agent Mode. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Nessus Tenable
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Firejail before 0.9.44.4, when running a bandwidth command, allows local users to gain root privileges via the --shell argument. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. This Improper Privilege Management vulnerability could allow attackers to escalate privileges to gain unauthorized elevated access.

Privilege Escalation Firejail Firejail Project
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

The postrm script in the tomcat6 package before 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb7u3 on Debian wheezy, before 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb8u1 on Debian jessie, before 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.9 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and on Ubuntu 14.04. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Apache Debian +5
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

NDSD in Novell eDirectory before 9.0.2 did not calculate ACLs on LDAP objects across partition boundaries correctly, which could lead to a privilege escalation by modifying user attributes that would. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Edirectory Novell
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

A logged-in user in NetIQ Access Governance Suite 6.0 through 6.4 could escalate privileges to administrator. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Access Governance Suite Netiq
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

IBM Reliable Scalable Cluster Technology could allow a local user to escalate their privileges to gain root access. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation IBM Power Hardware Management Console
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

The Qualcomm SPCom driver in Android before 7.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 34386529 and Qualcomm. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Google +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

The MemcmpLowercase function in Suricata before 2.0.6 improperly excludes the first byte from comparisons, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intrusion-prevention functionality via a. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Suricata Openinfosecfoundation
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM This Month

hosttracker in OpenDaylight l2switch allows remote attackers to change the host location information by spoofing the MAC address, aka "topology spoofing.". Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Opendaylight L2Switch
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.6
MEDIUM POC This Month

An issue was discovered in OxygenOS before 4.1.0 on OnePlus 3 and 3T devices. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.6), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Google Oxygenos +1
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

Pluck CMS 4.7.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the blog form feature. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Pluck +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

An issue was discovered in includes/component.php in the BuddyPress Docs plugin before 1.9.3 for WordPress. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. This Improper Privilege Management vulnerability could allow attackers to escalate privileges to gain unauthorized elevated access.

PHP WordPress Privilege Escalation +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

The E-book viewer in calibre before 2.75 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted epub file with JavaScript. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Privilege Escalation Calibre Calibre Ebook
NVD GitHub
EPSS 5% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

A vulnerability in the web-based GUI of Cisco Mobility Express 1800 Series Access Points could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Cisco Aironet Access Point Software
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

A privilege escalation vulnerability in the Secure Shell (SSH) subsystem in the StarOS operating system for Cisco ASR 5000 Series, ASR 5500 Series, ASR 5700 Series devices, and Cisco Virtualized. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Cisco Asr 5000 Series Software +1
NVD
EPSS 6% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

The logcheck function in session.inc in AlienVault OSSIM before 5.3.1, when an action has been created, and USM before 5.3.1 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and consequently obtain. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Ossim +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Arbitrary command execution vulnerability in Intel Security McAfee Security Scan Plus (SSP) 3.11.469 and earlier allows authenticated users to gain elevated privileges via unspecified vectors. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Intel Security Scan Plus +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Access control vulnerability in Intel Security Data Loss Prevention Endpoint (DLPe) 9.4.200 and 9.3.600 allows authenticated users with Read-Write-Execute permissions to inject hook DLLs into other. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Intel Data Loss Prevention Endpoint +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation vulnerability in Intel Security McAfee Application Control (MAC) 7.0 and 6.x versions allows attackers to cause DoS, unexpected behavior, or potentially unauthorized code. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Intel +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows 7 and Windows 10 in McAfee Security Scan Plus (SSP) 3.11.376 allows attackers to load a replacement of the version.dll file via McAfee McUICnt.exe onto a. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Microsoft Security Scan Plus +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

File extension filtering vulnerability in Intel Security McAfee Email Gateway (MEG) before 7.6.404h1128596 allows attackers to fail to identify the file name properly via scanning an email with a. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Intel Email Gateway +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

Malicious file execution vulnerability in Intel Security CloudAV (Beta) before 0.5.0.151.3 allows attackers to make the product momentarily vulnerable via executing preexisting specifically crafted. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0). No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Intel Security Webadvisor +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

Malicious file execution vulnerability in Intel Security WebAdvisor before 4.0.2, 4.0.1 and 3.7.2 allows attackers to make the product momentarily vulnerable via executing preexisting specifically. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0). No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Intel Security Webadvisor +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

Malicious file execution vulnerability in Intel Security McAfee Security Scan+ (MSS+) before 3.11.266.3 allows attackers to make the product momentarily vulnerable via executing preexisting. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0). No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Intel Security Webadvisor +3
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Information disclosure vulnerability in McAfee (now Intel Security) Cloud Analysis and Deconstructive Services (CADS) 1.0.0.3x, 1.0.0.4d and earlier allows remote unauthenticated users to view, add,. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Information Disclosure Intel +2
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

Privilege escalation vulnerability on the DIGISOL DG-HR1400 1.00.02 wireless router enables an attacker to escalate from user privilege to admin privilege just by modifying the Base64-encoded session. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Dg Hr1400 Router Firmware Digisol
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Adobe Shockwave versions 12.2.7.197 and earlier have an insecure library loading (DLL hijacking) vulnerability. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Adobe Shockwave Player
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

An issue was discovered in OxygenOS before 4.0.3 for OnePlus 3 and 3T. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Oxygenos +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.1
LOW PATCH Monitor

IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes DB2 Connect Server) 10.1, 10.5, and 11.1 could allow an authenticated attacker with specialized access to tables that they should not be permitted to. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. This Improper Privilege Management vulnerability could allow attackers to escalate privileges to gain unauthorized elevated access.

Privilege Escalation IBM Microsoft +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm GPU driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation RCE Google +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm camera driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0), this vulnerability is no authentication required.

Privilege Escalation RCE Google +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

Race condition in the L2TPv3 IP Encapsulation feature in the Linux kernel before 4.8.14 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by making multiple bind. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0).

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Linux +3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup 8.0 and earlier and NetBackup Appliance 3.0 and earlier. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0). No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Race Condition Netbackup +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup Before 7.7 and NetBackup Appliance Before 2.7. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Netbackup Netbackup Appliance +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup before 8.0 and NetBackup Appliance before 3.0. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Netbackup Netbackup Appliance +1
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

An issue was discovered in PHP 5.x and 7.x, when the configuration uses apache2handler/mod_php or php-fpm with OpCache enabled. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

PHP Privilege Escalation Apache
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

NetApp Data ONTAP 9.0 and 9.1 before 9.1P1 allows remote authenticated users that own SMB-hosted data to bypass intended sharing restrictions by leveraging improper handling of the owner_rights ACL. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Data Ontap Netapp
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

The hesiod_init function in lib/hesiod.c in Hesiod 3.2.1 compares EUID with UID to determine whether to use configurations from environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges via. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0).

Privilege Escalation Hesiod
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.3
HIGH This Week

Intel PSET Application Install wrapper of Intel Parallel Studio XE, Intel System Studio, Intel VTune Amplifier, Intel Inspector, Intel Advisor, Intel MPI Library, Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector,. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.3), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Intel Inspector +11
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

An issue was discovered on Dahua DHI-HCVR7216A-S3 devices with NVR Firmware 3.210.0001.10 2016-06-06, Camera Firmware 2.400.0000.28.R 2016-03-29, and SmartPSS Software 1.16.1 2017-01-19. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Dahua Camera Firmware +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Chameleon (five.pt) in Plone 5.0rc1 through 5.1a1 allows remote authenticated users to bypass Restricted Python by leveraging permissions to create or edit templates. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Python Plone
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.3
HIGH PATCH This Week

Plone 4.0 through 5.1a1 does not have security declarations for Dexterity content-related WebDAV requests, which allows remote attackers to gain webdav access via unspecified vectors. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Plone
NVD
EPSS 6% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in com.trend.iwss.gui.servlet.updateaccountadministration in Trend Micro InterScan Web Security Virtual Appliance (IWSVA) version 6.5-SP2_Build_Linux_1707 and. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Trend Micro Interscan Web Security Virtual Appliance
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 7% CVSS 9.9
CRITICAL POC PATCH Act Now

Remote Command Execution in com.trend.iwss.gui.servlet.ManagePatches in Trend Micro Interscan Web Security Virtual Appliance (IWSVA) version 6.5-SP2_Build_Linux_1707 and earlier allows authenticated,. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Privilege Escalation Trend Micro Interscan Web Security Virtual Appliance
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Apple Iphone Os +1
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Apple Iphone Os +2
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Apple Mac Os X
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Apple +4
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Apple Icloud
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Buffer Overflow +4
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.4
MEDIUM This Month

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.4), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Apple Iphone Os
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Apple +4
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Apple Mac Os X
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

The (1) ioport_read and (2) ioport_write functions in Xen, when qemu is used as a device model within Xen, might allow local x86 HVM guest OS administrators to gain qemu process privileges via. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5). No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Citrix Xenserver
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

All versions of NVIDIA GPU Display Driver contain a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer handler where improper access controls allowing unprivileged user to cause a denial of service. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Nvidia +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

A vulnerability in the web-based GUI of Cisco UCS Director 6.0.0.0 and 6.0.0.1 could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary workflow items with just an end-user profile, a. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Cisco Unified Computing System Director
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

IBM AIX 6.1, 7.1, and 7.2 could allow a local user to gain root privileges using a specially crafted command within the bellmail client. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Privilege Escalation IBM Aix +1
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, and 7.2 contains an unspecified vulnerability that would allow a locally authenticated user to obtain root level privileges. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Privilege Escalation IBM Aix +1
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

The issetugid system call in the Linux compatibility layer in FreeBSD 9.3, 10.1, and 10.2 allows local users to gain privilege via unspecified vectors. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Freebsd
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

The kernel in FreeBSD 9.3, 10.1, and 10.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) or potentially gain privilege via a crafted Linux compatibility layer setgroups system call. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Freebsd
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

The Linux compatibility layer in the kernel in FreeBSD 9.3, 10.1, and 10.2 allows local users to read portions of kernel memory and potentially gain privilege via unspecified vectors, related to. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Linux Freebsd
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Nagios 4.3.2 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a hard link attack on the Nagios init script file, related to CVE-2016-8641. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Nagios
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL Act Now

An issue was discovered in Honeywell XL Web II controller XL1000C500 XLWebExe-2-01-00 and prior, and XLWeb 500 XLWebExe-1-02-08 and prior. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Honeywell Xl Web Ii Controller
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

An issue was discovered in Moxa NPort 5110 versions prior to 2.6, NPort 5130/5150 Series versions prior to 3.6, NPort 5200 Series versions prior to 2.8, NPort 5400 Series versions prior to 3.11,. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Nport 5100 Series Firmware Nport 5200 Series Firmware +9
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

An issue was discovered in Advantech SUISAccess Server Version 3.0 and prior. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Susiaccess Advantech
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.8
MEDIUM This Month

An issue was discovered in Emerson DeltaV Easy Security Management DeltaV V12.3, DeltaV V12.3.1, and DeltaV V13.3. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.8). No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Deltav Emerson
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 10.0
CRITICAL Act Now

An issue was discovered in Moxa OnCell OnCellG3470A-LTE, AWK-1131A/3131A/4131A Series, AWK-3191 Series, AWK-5232/6232 Series, AWK-1121/1127 Series, WAC-1001 V2 Series, WAC-2004 Series,. Rated critical severity (CVSS 10.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Oncellg3470A Lte Firmware Awk 4131A Firmware +13
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.1
HIGH This Week

An issue was discovered in Lynxspring JENEsys BAS Bridge versions 1.1.8 and older. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Jenesys Bas Bridge Lynxspring
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.4
MEDIUM This Month

An issue was discovered in OSIsoft PI Web API 2015 R2 (Version 1.5.1). Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.4), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Pi Web Api 2015 R2 Osisoft
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

An issue was discovered in Moxa EDR-810 Industrial Secure Router. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Edr 810 Firmware Moxa
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

Bubblewrap before 0.1.3 sets the PR_SET_DUMPABLE flag, which might allow local users to gain privileges by attaching to the process, as demonstrated by sending commands to a PrivSep socket. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0).

Privilege Escalation Bubblewrap
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

click/install.py in click does not require files in package filesystem tarballs to start with ./ (dot slash), which allows remote attackers to install an alternate security policy and gain privileges. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Ubuntu Canonical +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Firejail before 0.9.44.6 and 0.9.38.x LTS before 0.9.38.10 LTS does not comprehensively address dotfile cases during its attempt to prevent accessing user files with an euid of zero, which allows. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. This Improper Privilege Management vulnerability could allow attackers to escalate privileges to gain unauthorized elevated access.

Privilege Escalation Firejail Firejail Project
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

A vulnerability in the Start Before Logon (SBL) module of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Software for Windows could allow an unauthenticated, local attacker to open Internet Explorer with. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Microsoft Cisco +1
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

Insufficient verification of uploaded files allows attackers with webui administrators privileges to perform arbitrary code execution by uploading a new webui theme. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Fortinet +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.3
HIGH This Week

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack installer could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.3), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE IBM +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm sound driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0), this vulnerability is no authentication required.

Privilege Escalation RCE Google +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm Secure Execution Environment Communicator driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0), this vulnerability is no authentication required. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Google +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0), this vulnerability is no authentication required. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Google +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0), this vulnerability is no authentication required. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Google +3
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