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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 (14622)

EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Backup in Apple iOS before 7.1 does not properly restrict symlinks, which allows remote attackers to overwrite files during a restore operation via crafted backup data. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Apple Iphone Os
NVD VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.4
MEDIUM This Month

Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.272 and 11.8.x through 12.0.x before 12.0.0.77 on Windows and OS X, and before 11.2.202.346 on Linux, allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.4), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Microsoft Adobe +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 13% CVSS 7.1
HIGH Act Now

Microsoft Silverlight 5 before 5.1.30214.0 and Silverlight 5 Developer Runtime before 5.1.30214.0 allow attackers to bypass the DEP and ASLR protection mechanisms via unspecified vectors, aka. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. Epss exploitation probability 13.1% and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Microsoft Silverlight
NVD VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.2
HIGH PATCH This Week

win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1,. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Microsoft Windows Server 2008 +9
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.0
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

mail_password.py in Plone 2.1 through 4.1, 4.2.x through 4.2.5, and 4.3.x through 4.3.1 allows remote authenticated users to bypass the prohibition on password changes via the forgotten password. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Plone
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

The object manager implementation (objectmanager.py) in Plone 2.1 through 4.1, 4.2.x through 4.2.5, and 4.3.x through 4.3.1 does not properly restrict access to internal methods, which allows remote. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Plone
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

typeswidget.py in Plone 2.1 through 4.1, 4.2.x through 4.2.5, and 4.3.x through 4.3.1 does not properly enforce the immutable setting on unspecified content edit forms, which allows remote attackers. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable.

Privilege Escalation Plone
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.8
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

zip.py in Plone 2.1 through 4.1, 4.2.x through 4.2.5, and 4.3.x through 4.3.1 does not properly enforce access restrictions when including content in a zip archive, which allows remote attackers to. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable.

Privilege Escalation Plone
NVD VulDB
EPSS 92% 6.3 CVSS 10.0
CRITICAL POC THREAT Emergency

web_shell_cmd.gch on ZTE F460 and F660 cable modems allows remote attackers to obtain administrative access via sendcmd requests, as demonstrated by using "set TelnetCfg" commands to enable a TELNET. Rated critical severity (CVSS 10.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and EPSS exploitation probability 92.0%.

Privilege Escalation Zte F460 +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

ftpd in IBM AIX 7.1.1 before SP10 and 7.1.2 before SP5, when a Workload Partition (aka WPAR) for AIX 5.2 or 5.3 is used, allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended permission settings and. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation IBM Aix
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM This Month

Puppet Enterprise before 3.2.0 does not properly restrict access to node endpoints in the console, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Puppet Enterprise Puppet
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.8
MEDIUM POC This Month

lib/x509/verify.c in GnuTLS before 3.1.21 and 3.2.x before 3.2.11 treats version 1 X.509 certificates as intermediate CAs, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions by leveraging. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Gnutls Gnu
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.0
MEDIUM This Month

EMC Documentum TaskSpace (TSP) 6.7SP1 before P25 and 6.7SP2 before P11 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a modified imaging-service URL. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Documentum Taskspace Emc
NVD VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.5
HIGH This Week

EMC Documentum TaskSpace (TSP) 6.7SP1 before P25 and 6.7SP2 before P11 does not properly handle the interaction between the dm_world group and the dm_superusers_dynamic group, which allows remote. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Documentum Taskspace Emc
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.0
MEDIUM This Month

IBM Algo One, as used in MetaData Management Tools in UDS 4.7.0 through 5.0.0, ACSWeb in Algo Security Access Control Management 4.7.0 through 4.9.0, and ACSWeb in AlgoWebApps 5.0.0, allows remote. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation IBM Algo One
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.8
MEDIUM This Month

The PepperFlashRendererHost::OnNavigate function in renderer/pepper/pepper_flash_renderer_host.cc in Google Chrome before 33.0.1750.146 does not verify that all headers are Cross-Origin Resource. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Chrome Google
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM This Month

IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1.0.x through 6.1.0.6 CF27, 6.1.5.x through 6.1.5.3 CF27, 7.0.0.x before 7.0.0.2 CF27, and 8.0.0.x before 8.0.0.1 CF10, when the wcm.path.traversal.security setting is enabled,. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation IBM Websphere Portal
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM POC This Month

The DrinkedIn BarFinder application for Android, when Adobe PhoneGap 2.9.0 or earlier is used, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code, and consequently obtain sensitive. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Google Adobe +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.8
MEDIUM POC This Month

The Edinburgh by Bus application for Android, when Adobe PhoneGap 2.9.0 or earlier is used, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code, and consequently access external-storage. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Google Adobe +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.4
MEDIUM This Month

The ForzeArmate application for Android, when Adobe PhoneGap 2.9.0 or earlier is used, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code, and consequently obtain write access to. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.4), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Google Adobe +1
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

Apache Cordova 3.3.0 and earlier and Adobe PhoneGap 2.9.0 and earlier on Windows Phone 7 and 8 do not properly restrict navigation events, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Apache Microsoft +3
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Adobe PhoneGap before 2.6.0 on Android uses the shouldOverrideUrlLoading callback instead of the proper shouldInterceptRequest callback, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Privilege Escalation Google Adobe +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 8% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

Apache Cordova 3.3.0 and earlier and Adobe PhoneGap 2.9.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to bypass intended device-resource restrictions of an event-based bridge via a crafted library clone that. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Apache Adobe +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Apache Cordova 3.3.0 and earlier and Adobe PhoneGap 2.9.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to bypass intended device-resource restrictions of an event-based bridge via a crafted library clone that. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Privilege Escalation Apache Adobe +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.9
HIGH This Week

The caching feature in SGOS in Blue Coat ProxySG 5.5 through 5.5.11.3, 6.1 through 6.1.6.3, 6.2 through 6.2.15.3, 6.4 through 6.4.6.1, and 6.3 and 6.5 before 6.5.4 allows remote authenticated users. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.9). No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Proxysgos Bluecoat
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.5
LOW Monitor

IBM Content Navigator 2.x before 2.0.2.2-ICN-FP002 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions and conduct deleteAction attacks via a modified URL. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation IBM Content Navigator
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.0
MEDIUM This Month

Cisco Unified Contact Center Express (Unified CCX) does not properly restrict the content of the CCMConfig page, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information by examining. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Cisco Unified Contact Center Express Editor Software
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.6
MEDIUM This Month

The systemsetup program in the Date and Time subsystem in Apple OS X before 10.9.2 allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by changing the current time on the system clock. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.6), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Apple Mac Os X +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.3
LOW Monitor

Finder in Apple OS X before 10.9.2 does not ensure ACL integrity after the viewing of file ACL information, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions in opportunistic. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.3). No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Apple Mac Os X
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.6
LOW Monitor

CFNetwork in Apple OS X through 10.8.5 does not remove session cookies upon a Safari reset action, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging an. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.6), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Apple Mac Os X
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Cybozu Garoon 2.x through 2.5.4 and 3.x through 3.7 SP3 does not properly manage sessions, which allows remote authenticated users to impersonate arbitrary users via unspecified vectors. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable.

Privilege Escalation Garoon Cybozu
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

Unspecified vulnerability in Norman Security Suite 10.1 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Security Suite Norman
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.3
MEDIUM POC This Month

The Import and Export Framework in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) before 4.6.7 Hotfix 940148 allows remote authenticated users with permissions to add dashboards to read arbitrary files by. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation XXE Epolicy Orchestrator +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.0
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

IBM Netezza Performance Portal 2.x before 2.0.0.3 allows remote authenticated users to change arbitrary passwords via an HTTP POST request. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation IBM Netezza Performance Portal
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.0
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

IBM Rational Focal Point 6.4.x and 6.5.x before 6.5.2.3 and 6.6.x before 6.6.1 allows remote authenticated users to modify data via vectors involving a direct object reference. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation IBM Rational Focal Point
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM This Month

The drag-and-drop implementation in Google Chrome before 33.0.1750.117 does not properly restrict the information in WebDropData data structures, which allows remote attackers to discover full. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Chrome Google
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.4
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

core/html/parser/XSSAuditor.cpp in the XSS auditor in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 33.0.1750.117, inserts the about:blank URL during certain blocking of FORM elements within HTTP requests,. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.4), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

XSS Privilege Escalation Chrome +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM This Month

The server in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) 8.4.1, 10.1 before IF6, 10.1.1 before IF5, 10.2 before IF7, 10.2.1 before IF4, and 10.2.1.1 before IF4 allows remote authenticated users to read. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation IBM XXE +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM This Month

The administration interface in Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) 10.0(1) and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and read Java class files via a direct request,. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Java Cisco +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 10.0
CRITICAL Act Now

The Cisco Unified SIP Phone 3905 with firmware before 9.4(1) allows remote attackers to obtain root access via a session on the test interface on TCP port 7870, aka Bug ID CSCuh75574. Rated critical severity (CVSS 10.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Cisco Unified Sip Phone 3905
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

The control-plane access-list implementation in Cisco IPS Software before 7.1(8p2)E4 and 7.2 before 7.2(2)E4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (MainApp process outage) via crafted. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Cisco +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.3
CRITICAL Act Now

The Belkin WeMo Home Automation firmware before 3949 does not properly use the STUN and TURN protocols, which allows remote attackers to hijack connections and possibly have unspecified other impact. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Wemo Home Automation Firmware Belkin
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.5
LOW Monitor

IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale Client 7.1 through 8.6.0.4 does not properly isolate the cached data of different users, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information in. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation IBM Websphere Extreme Scale Client
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.269 and 11.8.x through 12.0.x before 12.0.0.70 on Windows and Mac OS X and before 11.2.202.341 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 4.0.0.1628 on Android, Adobe AIR SDK. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Google Microsoft +4
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.6
MEDIUM POC This Month

The iCloud subsystem in Apple iOS before 7.1 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass an intended password requirement, and turn off the Find My iPhone service or complete a Delete Account. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.6), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Apple Iphone Os
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW Monitor

Ubuntu Metal as a Service (MaaS) 1.2 and 1.4 uses world-readable permissions for txlongpoll.yaml, which allows local users to obtain RabbitMQ authentication credentials by reading the file. Rated low severity (CVSS 2.1), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Ubuntu Metal As A Service
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.3
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

The CONFIG_STRICT_MEMORY_RWX implementation for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, does not properly consider. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable.

Privilege Escalation Linux Google +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 2.1
LOW Monitor

Apache Tomcat 7.x uses world-readable permissions for the log directory and its files, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a file. Rated low severity (CVSS 2.1), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Apache Tomcat
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW Monitor

HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) before 3.13.2 uses world-writable permissions for /var/log/hp and /var/log/hp/tmp, which allows local users to delete log files via standard filesystem. Rated low severity (CVSS 2.1), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation HP Linux Imaging And Printing Project
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM This Month

The Solution Manager in SAP NetWeaver does not properly restrict access, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation SAP Netweaver +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 1.9
LOW Monitor

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBEAP) 6.2.0 and JBoss WildFly Application Server, when run under a security manager, do not properly restrict access to the Modular Service Container. Rated low severity (CVSS 1.9). No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform +1
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 5.8
MEDIUM POC This Month

The Piranha Configuration Tool in Piranha 0.8.6 does not properly restrict access to webpages, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and read or modify the LVS configuration via an. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Piranha
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.2
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

The lxc-sshd template (templates/lxc-sshd.in) in LXC before 1.0.0.beta2 uses read-write permissions when mounting /sbin/init, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the init file. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Privilege Escalation Lxc Linuxcontainers
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

The Meeting Server in IBM Sametime 8.5.2 through 8.5.2.1 and 9.x through 9.0.0.1 do not have an off autocomplete attribute for a password field, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation IBM Sametime
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM This Month

The Meeting Server in IBM Sametime 8.5.2 through 8.5.2.1 and 9.x through 9.0.0.1 does not send the appropriate HTTP response headers to prevent unwanted caching by a web browser, which allows remote. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation IBM Sametime
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.8
MEDIUM This Month

The charting component in IBM WebSphere Dashboard Framework (WDF) 6.1.5 and 7.0.1 allows remote attackers to view or delete image files by leveraging incorrect security constraints for a temporary. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation IBM Websphere Dashboard Framework
NVD
EPSS 25% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM POC THREAT This Month

VsaVb7rt.dll in Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 and 3.5.1 does not implement the ASLR protection mechanism, which makes it easier for remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. Public exploit code available and EPSS exploitation probability 25.5%.

Privilege Escalation RCE Microsoft +1
NVD
EPSS 8% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM This Month

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 through 11 does not properly restrict file installation and registry-key creation, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Mandatory Integrity Control protection. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Microsoft Internet Explorer
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.6
MEDIUM This Month

Sophos Anti-Virus engine (SAVi) before 3.50.1, as used in VDL 4.97G 9.7.x before 9.7.9, 10.0.x before 10.0.11, and 10.3.x before 10.3.1 does not set an ACL for certain global and session objects,. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.6), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Sophos Anti Virus +2
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 4.0
MEDIUM This Month

status.cgi in Nagios 4.0 before 4.0 beta4 and 3.x before 3.5.1 does not properly restrict access to certain users that are a contact for a service, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Nagios
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.6
MEDIUM This Month

xkeyboard-config before 2.5 in X.Org before 7.6 enables certain XKB debugging functions by default, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass an X screen lock via keyboard combinations. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.6), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation X Org X11 Xkeyboard Config
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.8
MEDIUM This Month

The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.5, 2.12, and probably other versions does not "properly restrict the use of" the alloca function when allocating the. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Denial Of Service +7
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.0
MEDIUM This Month

The Web Email Protection component in Symantec Encryption Management Server (aka PGP Universal Server) before 3.3.2 allows remote authenticated users to read the stored outbound e-mail messages of. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Symantec Encryption Management Server
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.0
CRITICAL Act Now

The web service in EMC Documentum Foundation Services (DFS) 6.5 through 6.7 before 6.7 SP1 P22, 6.7 SP2 before P08, 7.0 before P12, and 7.1 before P01 does not properly implement content uploading,. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Documentum Foundation Services Emc
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM This Month

osc before 0.134 might allow remote OBS repository servers or package maintainers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted (1) build log or (2) build status that contains an escape sequence for a. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Opensuse Osc
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM This Month

Mozilla Firefox before 27.0 does not properly restrict access to about:home buttons by script on other pages, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Oracle +11
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.4
MEDIUM This Month

SystemTap 1.7, 1.6.7, and probably other versions, when unprivileged mode is enabled, allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (kernel panic. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.4). No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Systemtap
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.0
MEDIUM This Month

Cisco Unified Communications Manager (aka Unified CM) 9.1 (2.10000.28) and earlier allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging incorrect file permissions, aka Bug IDs CSCul24917 and. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.0). No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Cisco Unified Communications Manager
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW Monitor

EC2 Amazon Machine Image (AMI) in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 5.1.2 uses 755 permissions for /var/cache/jboss-ec2-eap/, which allows local users to read sensitive information such as. Rated low severity (CVSS 2.1), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM POC This Month

Cantata before 1.2.2 does not restrict access to files in the play queue, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading the songs in the queue. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Cantata
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW Monitor

Light Display Manager (aka LightDM) 1.4.x before 1.4.3, 1.6.x before 1.6.2, and 1.7.x before 1.7.14 uses 0664 permissions for the temporary .Xauthority file, which allows local users to obtain. Rated low severity (CVSS 2.1), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Lightdm Robert Ancell
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

The OAC component in IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) 2.0 before 2.0.0.3 does not properly enforce operator-intervention requirements, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation IBM Financial Transaction Manager
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM This Month

The Connect client in IBM Sametime 8.5.2 through 8.5.2.1 and 9.0 before HF1 does not properly restrict unsigned Java plugins, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Java IBM +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.9
MEDIUM This Month

CiviCRM 2.0.0 through 4.2.9 and 4.3.0 through 4.3.3 does not properly enforce role-based access control (RBAC) restrictions for default custom searches, which allows remote authenticated users with. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Civicrm
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

The password reset feature in Courion Access Risk Management Suite Version 8 Update 9 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended Internet Explorer usage restrictions and execute arbitrary. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Access Risk Management Suite
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 4.9
MEDIUM This Month

Cisco WebEx Meetings Server allows remote authenticated users to bypass authorization checks and (1) join arbitrary meetings, or (2) terminate a meeting without having a host role, via a crafted URL,. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Cisco Webex Meetings Server
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

The BIRT viewer in IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM) 7.2.1.x before 7.2.1.5 allows remote authenticated users to bypass authorization checks and obtain report-administration. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation SQLi IBM +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

The Proc::Daemon module 0.14 for Perl uses world-writable permissions for a file that stores a process ID, which allows local users to have an unspecified impact by modifying this file. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Proc
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 8.3
HIGH PATCH This Week

The do_physdev_op function in Xen 4.1.5, 4.1.6.1, 4.2.2 through 4.2.3, and 4.3.x does not properly restrict access to the (1) PHYSDEVOP_prepare_msix and (2) PHYSDEVOP_release_msix operations, which. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.3), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Xen
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.0
MEDIUM This Month

Check Point R75.47 Security Gateway and Management Server does not properly enforce Anti-Spoofing when the routing table is modified and the "Get - Interfaces with Topology" action is performed,. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Security Gateway Management Server +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM This Month

XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in MARC::File::XML module before 1.0.2 for Perl, as used in Evergreen, Koha, perl4lib, and possibly other products, allows context-dependent attackers to read. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation XXE Marc Xml
NVD
EPSS 17% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM POC THREAT This Month

cgi-bin/tsaws.cgi in Franklin Fueling Systems TS-550 evo with firmware 2.0.0.6833 and other versions before 2.4.0 allows remote attackers to discover sensitive information (user names and password. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and EPSS exploitation probability 17.2%.

Privilege Escalation Ts 550 Evo Firmware Ts 550 Evo +1
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.6
LOW Monitor

Secunia CSI Agent 6.0.0.15017 and earlier, 6.0.1.1007 and earlier, and 7.0.0.21 and earlier, when running on Red Hat Linux, uses world-readable and world-writable permissions for. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.6), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Red Hat Csi Agent
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

The portal interface in Cisco Secure Access Control System (ACS) does not properly manage sessions, which allows remote authenticated users to hijack sessions and gain privileges via unspecified. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Cisco Secure Access Control System
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.0
MEDIUM This Month

The Taxonomy module in Drupal 7.x before 7.26, when upgraded from an earlier version of Drupal, does not properly restrict access to unpublished content, which allows remote authenticated users to. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Drupal
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM This Month

libvirt 1.1.1 through 1.2.0 allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the domain:getattr and connect:search_domains restrictions in ACLs and obtain sensitive domain object information via a. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3). No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Red Hat Libvirt
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.2
MEDIUM This Month

The libxlDomainGetNumaParameters function in the libxl driver (libxl/libxl_driver.c) in libvirt before 1.2.1 does not properly initialize the nodemap, which allows local users to cause a denial of. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.2), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Denial Of Service +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM This Month

The remote-viewer in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (RHEV-M) before 3.3, when using a native SPICE client invocation method, initially makes insecure connections to the SPICE server, which. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.8
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

The Spring MVC in Spring Framework before 3.2.4 and 4.0.0.M1 through 4.0.0.M2 does not disable external entity resolution for the StAX XMLInputFactory, which allows context-dependent attackers to. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. Public exploit code available.

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Java +5
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.3
LOW POC PATCH Monitor

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly 2013.1.4, Havana 2013.2.1, and earlier uses world-writable and world-readable permissions for the temporary directory used to store live snapshots, which allows local. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.3). Public exploit code available.

Privilege Escalation Openstack Nova
NVD
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