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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 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
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

runuser in util-linux allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Kernel Util Linux
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

The aio_mount function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel before 4.7.7 does not properly restrict execute access, which makes it easier for local users to bypass intended SELinux W^X policy. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Linux Google +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 92% 6.2 CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC PATCH THREAT Act Now

The installation wizard in DotNetNuke (DNN) before 7.4.1 allows remote attackers to reinstall the application and gain SuperUser access via a direct request to Install/InstallWizard.aspx. 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 92.3%.

Privilege Escalation Dotnetnuke Dnnsoftware
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 3% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Use-after-free vulnerability in the kvm_ioctl_create_device function in virt/kvm/kvm_main.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.13 allows host OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Linux +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

EMC Isilon OneFS 7.2.1.0 - 7.2.1.3, EMC Isilon OneFS 7.2.0.x, EMC Isilon OneFS 7.1.1.0 - 7.1.1.10, EMC Isilon OneFS 7.1.0.x is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability that could potentially. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Isilon Onefs Emc
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.7
MEDIUM This Month

EMC Data Domain OS (DD OS) 5.4 all versions, EMC Data Domain OS (DD OS) 5.5 family all versions prior to 5.5.5.0, EMC Data Domain OS (DD OS) 5.6 family all versions prior to 5.6.2.0, EMC Data Domain. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.7), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Command Injection Dell +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

IBM Jazz technology based products might allow an attacker to view work item titles that they do not have privilege to view. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

IBM AIX 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 and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation IBM Aix
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 5% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

newreply.php in MyBB (aka MyBulletinBoard) before 1.8.7 and MyBB Merge System before 1.8.7 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging a missing permission check. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

PHP Privilege Escalation Mybb +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Trend Micro Smart Protection Server 2.5 before build 2200, 2.6 before build 2106, and 3.0 before build 1330 allows local webserv users to execute arbitrary code with root privileges via a Trojan. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Trend Micro +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

An issue was discovered in Linux Foundation xapi in Citrix XenServer through 7.0. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Server: InnoDB). Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. This Improper Privilege Management vulnerability could allow attackers to escalate privileges to gain unauthorized elevated access.

Privilege Escalation MySQL MariaDB +3
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation vulnerability in Lenovo Transition application used in Lenovo Yoga, Flex and Miix systems running Windows allows local users to execute code with elevated privileges. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Microsoft +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Xen through 4.8.x allows local 64-bit x86 HVM guest OS users to gain privileges by leveraging mishandling of SYSCALL singlestep during emulation. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Xen
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

The x86 emulator in Xen does not properly treat x86 NULL segments as unusable when accessing memory, which might allow local HVM guest users to gain privileges via vectors involving "unexpected". Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Citrix Xen +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Xen 4.0.x through 4.7.x mishandle x86 task switches to VM86 mode, which allows local 32-bit x86 HVM guest OS users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) by leveraging a. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Citrix +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

CloudVision Portal (CVP) before 2016.1.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to gain access to the internal configuration mechanisms via the management plane, related to a request to. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Cloudvision Portal Arista
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

ownCloud server before 8.2.6 and 9.x before 9.0.3, when the gallery app is enabled, allows remote attackers to download arbitrary images via a direct request. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required.

Privilege Escalation Owncloud
NVD VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in Microsoft Skype allow local users to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse (1) msi.dll, (2) dpapi.dll, or (3). Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Microsoft +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.8
MEDIUM POC This Month

Valve Steam 3.42.16.13 uses weak permissions for the files in the Steam program directory, which allows local users to modify the files and possibly gain privileges as demonstrated by a Trojan horse. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Steamos Valvesoftware
NVD Exploit-DB VulDB
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

The impersonate feature in Gitlab 8.7.0, 8.6.0 through 8.6.7, 8.5.0 through 8.5.11, 8.4.0 through 8.4.9, 8.3.0 through 8.3.8, and 8.2.0 through 8.2.4 allows remote authenticated users to "log in" as. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Privilege Escalation Gitlab
NVD Exploit-DB VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

A flaw in systemd v228 in /src/basic/fs-util.c caused world writable suid files to be created when using the systemd timers features, allowing local attackers to escalate their privileges to root. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Privilege Escalation Systemd Systemd Project
NVD GitHub Exploit-DB VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

In Moodle 2.x and 3.x, the capability to view course notes is checked in the wrong context. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Moodle
NVD VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

RESTful web services in CA Service Desk Manager 12.9 and CA Service Desk Management 14.1 might allow remote authenticated users to read or modify task information by leveraging incorrect permissions. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Service Desk Manager Service Desk Management +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

The SmartCall Activity component in Telecom application on Samsung Note device L(5.0/5.1) and M(6.0) allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and reboot) or possibly gain privileges via a. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Samsung +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

The SpamCall Activity component in Telecom application on Samsung Note device L(5.0/5.1) and M(6.0) allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and reboot) or possibly gain privileges via a. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Samsung +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Broadcom 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 +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Broadcom 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 +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the bootloader could enable a local attacker to execute arbitrary modem commands on the device. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Google +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 12% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

The UI daemon in Apache Storm 0.10.0 before 0.10.0-beta1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Epss exploitation probability 12.4%.

Privilege Escalation RCE Apache +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

The MT6573FDVT_SetRegHW function in camera_fdvt.c in the MediaTek driver for Linux allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application that makes an MT6573FDVTIOC_T_SET_FDCONF_CMD IOCTL. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Google Android +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege Escalation in Lenovo XClarity Administrator earlier than 1.2.0, if LXCA is used to manage rack switches or chassis with embedded input/output modules (IOMs), certain log files viewable by. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0).

Privilege Escalation Lenovo Xclarity Administrator
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

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

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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Broadcom 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 +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Broadcom 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 +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Broadcom 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 +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Synaptics touchscreen 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 +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Broadcom 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 +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Broadcom 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 +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Broadcom 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 +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Broadcom 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 +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Broadcom 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 +2
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 +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Synaptics touchscreen 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 +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH 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. No vendor patch available.

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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA GPU 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 +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in MediaTek components, including the thermal driver and video driver, could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context. 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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in MediaTek components, including the thermal driver and video driver, could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context. 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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in MediaTek components, including the thermal driver and video driver, could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context. 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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in MediaTek components, including the thermal driver and video driver, could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0), this vulnerability is no authentication required.

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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm video 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. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Google +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the MediaTek 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 7.8
HIGH This Week

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA 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. No vendor patch available.

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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA 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. No vendor patch available.

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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA 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. No vendor patch available.

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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA 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. No vendor patch available.

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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA 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. No vendor patch available.

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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA 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. No vendor patch available.

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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA 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. No vendor patch available.

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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA 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. No vendor patch available.

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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA 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. No vendor patch available.

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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm bootloader 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. No vendor patch available.

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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm bootloader 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. No vendor patch available.

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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the MediaTek I2C 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 +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Wi-Fi could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the libziparchive library could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Google +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Splunk Web in Splunk Enterprise 5.0.x before 5.0.17, 6.0.x before 6.0.13, 6.1.x before 6.1.12, 6.2.x before 6.2.12, 6.3.x before 6.3.8, and 6.4.x before 6.4.4 allows remote attackers to conduct HTTP. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Splunk
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

An issue was discovered in EMC ScaleIO versions before 2.0.1.1. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Scaleio +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.4
HIGH POC This Week

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in BlueStacks App Player. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.4), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Bluestacks
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.4
MEDIUM This Month

Authentication bypass vulnerability in Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) and License Manager (LM) in Intel Security McAfee Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) 9.6.0 MR3 allows an. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.4), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Intel +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

sshd in OpenSSH before 7.4, when privilege separation is not used, creates forwarded Unix-domain sockets as root, which might allow local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0). Public exploit code available.

Privilege Escalation SSH Openssh +1
NVD GitHub Exploit-DB VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.7
LOW PATCH Monitor

Dotclear before 2.10.3, when the Host header is not part of the web server routing process, allows remote attackers to modify the password reset address link via the HTTP Host header. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.7), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required.

Privilege Escalation Dotclear
NVD
EPSS 7% CVSS 8.1
HIGH This Week

NETGEAR Arlo base stations with firmware 1.7.5_6178 and earlier, Arlo Q devices with firmware 1.8.0_5551 and earlier, and Arlo Q Plus devices with firmware 1.8.1_6094 and earlier use a pattern of. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Netgear Arlo Base Station Firmware +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.5
HIGH This Week

The Suite REST API in VMware vRealize Operations (aka vROps) 6.x before 6.4.0 allows remote authenticated users to write arbitrary content to files or rename files via a crafted DiskFileItem in a. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Deserialization VMware +1
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 10.0
CRITICAL Act Now

VMware vRealize Operations (aka vROps) 6.x before 6.4.0 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges, or halt and remove virtual machines, via unspecified vectors. Rated critical severity (CVSS 10.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation VMware Vrealize Operations
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

The installer in VMware Workstation Pro 12.x before 12.5.0 and VMware Workstation Player 12.x before 12.5.0 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse setup64.exe file in the. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Microsoft VMware +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

HP ThinPro 4.4 through 6.1 mishandles the keyboard layout control panel and virtual keyboard application, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and gain privileges via. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation HP Thinpro
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

kernel/events/core.c in the performance subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.0 mismanages locks during certain migrations, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0).

Privilege Escalation Linux Google +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

kernel/events/core.c in the performance subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.0 mismanages locks during certain migrations, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0).

Privilege Escalation Linux Google +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM POC This Month

WampServer 3.0.6 has two files called 'wampmanager.exe' and 'unins000.exe' with a weak ACL for Modify. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Wampserver
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

WampServer 3.0.6 installs two services called 'wampapache' and 'wampmysqld' with weak file permissions, running with SYSTEM privileges. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5). Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Wampserver
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

A vulnerability in the Docker Engine configuration of Cisco CloudCenter Orchestrator (CCO; formerly CliQr) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to install Docker containers with high. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Docker Cisco +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

An issue was discovered in Sprecher Automation SPRECON-E Service Program before 3.43 SP0. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Sprecon E Service Program Sprecher Automation
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

The Secure Kernel Mode implementation in Microsoft Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607 and Windows Server 2016 allows local users to bypass the virtual trust level (VTL) protection mechanism via a. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Microsoft Windows Server 2016 +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

The kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Microsoft Windows Server 2008 +7
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

An issue was discovered in templates/beez3/html/com_content/article/default.php in Joomla!. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

PHP Privilege Escalation Joomla
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH POC This Week

An exploitable buffer overflow exists in the Joyent SmartOS 20161110T013148Z Hyprlofs file system. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0). Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Buffer Overflow Smartos +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH POC This Week

An exploitable buffer overflow exists in the Joyent SmartOS 20161110T013148Z Hyprlofs file system. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0). Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Buffer Overflow Smartos +1
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