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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 (14625)

EPSS 0% CVSS 1.9
LOW Monitor

The Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) interpreter implementation in the kernel in Apple iOS before 6 accesses uninitialized memory locations, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information about. Rated low severity (CVSS 1.9). No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Apple Iphone Os
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM This Month

The kernel in Apple iOS before 6 dereferences invalid pointers during the handling of packet-filter data structures, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted program that makes. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.9). No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Apple Iphone Os
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM This Month

Apple Safari before 6.0.1 does not properly handle the Quarantine attribute of HTML documents, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary files by leveraging the presence of a. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Apple Safari
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

The Fill PDF module 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.2 for Drupal allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary PDF files via unspecified vectors related to the fillpdf_merge_pdf function and incorrect. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Fillpdf
NVD
EPSS 6% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

torrent_functions.php in RivetTracker 1.03 and earlier does not properly restrict access, which allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

PHP Privilege Escalation Rivettracker +1
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

course/reset.php in Moodle 2.1.x before 2.1.8, 2.2.x before 2.2.5, and 2.3.x before 2.3.2 checks an update capability instead of a reset capability, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

PHP Privilege Escalation Moodle
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

webservice/lib.php in Moodle 2.1.x before 2.1.8, 2.2.x before 2.2.5, and 2.3.x before 2.3.2 does not properly restrict the use of web-service tokens, which allows remote authenticated users to run. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable.

PHP Privilege Escalation Moodle
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.0
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Moodle 2.2.x before 2.2.5 and 2.3.x before 2.3.2 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended capability restrictions and perform certain topic changes by leveraging course-editing. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Moodle
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.0
MEDIUM This Month

repository/repository_ajax.php in Moodle 2.2.x before 2.2.5 and 2.3.x before 2.3.2 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended upload-size restrictions via a -1 value in the maxbytes field. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

PHP Privilege Escalation Moodle
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

libgio, when used in setuid or other privileged programs in spice-gtk and possibly other products, allows local users to gain privileges and execute arbitrary code via the DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.9). Public exploit code available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Gtk +3
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.0
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

OpenStack Keystone 2012.1.3 does not invalidate existing tokens when granting or revoking roles, which allows remote authenticated users to retain the privileges of the revoked roles. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Keystone Openstack
NVD
EPSS 52% 4.5 CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM POC PATCH THREAT This Month

libdbus 1.5.x and earlier, when used in setuid or other privileged programs in X.org and possibly other products, allows local users to gain privileges and execute arbitrary code via the. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.9). Public exploit code available and EPSS exploitation probability 52.4%.

Privilege Escalation RCE Libdbus +1
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

WebNavigator in Siemens WinCC 7.0 SP3 and earlier, as used in SIMATIC PCS7 and other products, stores sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Siemens Wincc +1
NVD
EPSS 9% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

The CoSoSys Endpoint Protector 4 appliance establishes an EPProot password based entirely on the appliance serial number, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access via a brute-force. 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 Endpoint Protector Appliace 4 Cososys
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM This Month

The Ubercart Payflow module for Drupal does not use a secure token, which allows remote attackers to forge payments via unspecified vectors. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Paypal Ubercart Payflow
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.5
LOW POC Monitor

wp-admin/plugins.php in WordPress before 3.4.2, when the multisite feature is enabled, does not check for network-administrator privileges before performing a network-wide activation of an installed. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

PHP WordPress Privilege Escalation
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.0
MEDIUM POC This Month

The create_post function in wp-includes/class-wp-atom-server.php in WordPress before 3.4.2 does not perform a capability check, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

PHP WordPress Privilege Escalation
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

Google Chrome before 18.0.1025308 on Android allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain access to local files via vectors involving a symlink. 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 Chrome Google
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.3
CRITICAL Act Now

Google Chrome before 18.0.1025308 on Android does not properly restrict access from JavaScript code to Android APIs, which allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a crafted web page. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Chrome Google
NVD
EPSS 8% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM POC This Month

Google Chrome before 18.0.1025308 on Android does not properly restrict access to file: URLs, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by. 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 Chrome Google
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM This Month

Google Chrome before 18.0.1025308 on Android does not properly restrict access to file: URLs, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Chrome Google
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.0
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

security/__init__.py in MoinMoin 1.9 through 1.9.4 does not properly handle group names that contain virtual group names such as "All," "Known," or "Trusted," which allows remote authenticated users. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable.

Privilege Escalation Moinmoin Moinmo
NVD
EPSS 8% CVSS 4.0
MEDIUM POC This Month

admin/Auth in OpenKM 5.1.7 and other versions before 5.1.8-2 does not properly enforce privileges for changing user roles, which allows remote authenticated users to assign administrator privileges. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Openkm
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 1% CVSS 4.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Cool Aid module before 6.x-1.9 for Drupal does not enforce access restrictions, which allows remote authenticated users with the administer coolaid permission to modify arbitrary pages via. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable.

Privilege Escalation Cool Aid Danielb
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM This Month

MediaWiki 1.17.x before 1.17.3 and 1.18.x before 1.18.2 uses weak random numbers for password reset tokens, which makes it easier for remote attackers to change the passwords of arbitrary users. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Mediawiki
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM This Month

Joomla!. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Joomla
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM This Month

appconfig.php in ownCloud before 4.0.6 does not properly restrict access, which allows remote authenticated users to edit app configurations via unspecified vectors. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

PHP Privilege Escalation Owncloud +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 8% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Apache Struts 2.0.0 through 2.3.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long parameter name, which is processed as an OGNL expression. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Apache +1
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

OpenStack Keystone, as used in OpenStack Folsom before folsom-rc1 and OpenStack Essex (2012.1), allows remote attackers to add an arbitrary user to an arbitrary tenant via a request to update the. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable.

Privilege Escalation Open Redirect Openstack +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.6
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

The Crowbar Ohai plugin (chef/cookbooks/ohai/files/default/plugins/crowbar.rb) in the Deployer Barclamp in Crowbar, possibly 1.4 and earlier, allows local users to execute arbitrary shell commands. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.6), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Privilege Escalation Dell Crowbar
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

The Slidebox module before 7.x-1.4 for Drupal does not properly check permissions, 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.

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

Bugzilla 2.x and 3.x through 3.6.11, 3.7.x and 4.0.x before 4.0.8, 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.3, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3 stores potentially sensitive information under the web root with insufficient. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Mozilla Bugzilla
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.9
LOW Monitor

Symantec PGP Universal Server 3.2.x before 3.2.1 MP2 does not properly manage sessions that include key search requests, which might allow remote attackers to read a private key in opportunistic. Rated low severity (CVSS 2.9). No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Symantec Pgp Universal Server
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

The Advertisement module 6.x-2.x before 6.x-2.3 for Drupal does not properly restrict access to debug information, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive site configuration information. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

PHP Privilege Escalation Advertisement
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW Monitor

rssh 2.3.3 and earlier allows local users to bypass intended restricted shell access via crafted environment variables in the command line. Rated low severity (CVSS 2.1), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Rssh Pizzashack
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.0
MEDIUM This Month

channels/chan_iax2.c in Asterisk Open Source 1.8.x before 1.8.15.1 and 10.x before 10.7.1, Certified Asterisk 1.8.11 before 1.8.11-cert7, Asterisk Digiumphones 10.x.x-digiumphones before. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Asterisk Certified Asterisk +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.3
LOW Monitor

The Device Encryption Client component in Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise 6.0, when a volume-based encryption policy is enabled in conjunction with a user-defined key, does not properly block use of. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.3). No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Safeguard Enterprise Sophos
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM This Month

IBM WebSphere MQ 7.1, when an SVRCONN channel is used, allows remote attackers to bypass the security-configuration setup step and obtain queue-manager access via unspecified vectors. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation IBM Websphere Mq
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.8
MEDIUM This Month

The nsLocation::CheckURL function in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, Thunderbird before 15.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 does not. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Chrome Google +5
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.6
HIGH This Week

The debugger in the developer-tools subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, when remote debugging is disabled, does not properly restrict access to the remote-debugging service, which allows remote. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.6), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Mozilla +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.3
CRITICAL Act Now

Mozilla Firefox before 15.0 does not properly restrict navigation to the about:newtab page, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via a crafted web. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Chrome Google +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.0
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

The ZipCart module 6.x before 6.x-1.4 for Drupal checks the "access content" permission instead of the "access ZipCart downloads" permission when building archives, which allows remote authenticated. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable.

Privilege Escalation Zipcart
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW POC PATCH Monitor

The Organic Groups (OG) Vocabulary module 6.x-1.x before 6.x-1.2 for Drupal allows remote authenticated users with certain administrator permissions to modify the vocabularies of other groups via. Rated low severity (CVSS 2.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. Public exploit code available.

Privilege Escalation Og Vocab
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

The Faster Permissions module 7.x-2.x before 7.x-1.2 for Drupal does not check the "administer permissions" permission, which allows remote attackers to modify access permissions via unspecified. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Fp
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

includes/linkchecker.pages.inc in the Link checker module 6.x-2.x before 6.x-2.5 for Drupal does not properly enforce access permissions on broken links, which allows remote attackers to obtain. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Linkchecker
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.0
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

The finder_import function in the Finder module 6.x-1.x before 6.x-1.26, 7.x-1.x, and 7.x-2.x before 7.x-2.0-alpha8 for Drupal allows remote authenticated users with the administer finder permission. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. Public exploit code available.

PHP Privilege Escalation Finder +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.4
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

The hook_node_access function in the revisioning module 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.3 for Drupal checks the permissions of the current user even when it is called to check permissions of other users, which. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.4), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Revisioning Rik De Boer
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.4
MEDIUM This Month

Tunnelblick 3.3beta20 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges by using a crafted Info.plist file to control the gOkIfNotSecure value. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.4). No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Google Tunnelblick
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM This Month

Tunnelblick 3.3beta20 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via an OpenVPN configuration file that specifies execution of a script upon occurrence of an OpenVPN event. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.9). No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Google Tunnelblick
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

Tunnelblick 3.3beta20 and earlier relies on a test for specific ownership and permissions to determine whether a program can be safely executed, which allows local users to bypass intended access. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Google Tunnelblick
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

EMC ApplicationXtender Desktop before 6.5 SP2 and ApplicationXtender Web Access .NET before 6.5 SP2 allow remote attackers to upload files to any location, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Applicationxtender Desktop +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

The database creation script (module/idoutils/db/scripts/create_mysqldb.sh) in Icinga 1.7.1 grants access to all databases to the icinga user, which allows icinga users to access other databases via. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Icinga
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.0
MEDIUM This Month

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) 4.6.1 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions, and obtain sensitive information from arbitrary reporting panels, via a. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Epolicy Orchestrator Mcafee
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM This Month

McAfee Application Control and Change Control 5.1.x and 6.0.0 do not enforce an intended password requirement in certain situations involving attributes of the password file, which allows local users. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Application Control Change Control +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.5
LOW Monitor

McAfee Enterprise Mobility Manager (EMM) Agent before 4.8 and Server before 10.1, when one-time provisioning (OTP) mode is enabled, have an improper dependency on DNS SRV records, which makes it. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Apple Enterprise Mobility Manager +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.5
LOW Monitor

McAfee Email and Web Security (EWS) 5.x before 5.5 Patch 6 and 5.6 before Patch 3, and McAfee Email Gateway (MEG) 7.0 before Patch 1, accesses files with the privileges of the root user, which allows. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Email Gateway Email And Web Security +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.0
MEDIUM This Month

McAfee Email and Web Security (EWS) 5.x before 5.5 Patch 6 and 5.6 before Patch 3, and McAfee Email Gateway (MEG) 7.0 before Patch 1, allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Email Gateway Email And Web Security +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.9
MEDIUM This Month

McAfee Email and Web Security (EWS) 5.x before 5.5 Patch 6 and 5.6 before Patch 3, and McAfee Email Gateway (MEG) 7.0 before Patch 1, allows remote authenticated users to reset the passwords of. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Email Gateway Email And Web Security +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 4.9
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2012.1.x before 2012.1.2 and Folsom before Folsom-3 allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. Public exploit code available.

Privilege Escalation Openstack Folsom +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

The Web client in IBM Rational ClearQuest 7.1.x before 7.1.2.7 and 8.x before 8.0.0.3 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions, and use the Site Administration menu to. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation IBM Rational Clearquest
NVD
EPSS 8% CVSS 3.5
LOW POC Monitor

The Web Gateway component in IBM WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition 7.0.4 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to read files of arbitrary users via vectors involving a username in a URI, as. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation IBM Websphere Mq
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.5
HIGH This Week

Siemens COMOS before 9.1 Patch 413, 9.2 before Update 03 Patch 023, and 10.0 before Patch 005 allows remote authenticated users to obtain database administrative access via unspecified method calls. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Siemens Comos
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

The Authen::ExternalAuth extension before 0.11 for Best Practical Solutions RT allows remote attackers to obtain a logged-in session via unspecified vectors related to the "URL of a RSS feed of the. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Authen
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

The Organic Groups (OG) module 6.x-2.x before 6.x-2.3 for Drupal does not properly restrict access, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information such as private group titles via a. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Organic Groups Moshe Weitzman
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.0
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

The Bundle copy module 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.1 for Drupal does not check for the "use PHP for settings" permission while importing settings, which allows remote authenticated users with certain. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable.

PHP Privilege Escalation Bundle Copy +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

The Linkit module 7.x-2.x before 7.x-2.3 for Drupal, when using an entity access module, does not check permissions when searching for entities, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable.

Privilege Escalation Linkit
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.0
MEDIUM This Month

The good_client function in rquotad (rquota_svc.c) in Linux DiskQuota (aka quota) before 3.17 invokes the hosts_ctl function the first time without a host name, which might allow remote attackers to. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Linux Diskquota
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.3
CRITICAL Act Now

The Amazon Kindle Touch before 5.1.2 does not properly restrict access to the libkindleplugin.so NPAPI plugin interface, which might allow remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via vectors. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Kindle Touch Amazon
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM This Month

Dir2web 3.0 stores sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to download the database via a direct request for system/db/website.db. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Dir2Web
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.4
MEDIUM This Month

Caucho Quercus, as distributed in Resin before 4.0.29, allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions on filename extensions for created files via a %00 sequence in a pathname within an HTTP. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.4), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Resin Caucho
NVD
EPSS 6% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

The new_password page in PBBoard 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to change the password of arbitrary user accounts via the member_id and new_password parameters to index.php. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

PHP Privilege Escalation Pbboard
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW Monitor

PNP4Nagios 0.6 through 0.6.16 uses world-readable permissions for process_perfdata.cfg, which allows local users to obtain the Gearman shared secret by reading the file. Rated low severity (CVSS 2.1), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Pnp4Nagios
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

IBM Global Security Kit (aka GSKit) before 8.0.14.22, as used in IBM Rational Directory Server, IBM Tivoli Directory Server, and other products, uses the PKCS #12 file format for certificate objects. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation IBM Tivoli Directory Server +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.4
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

The "make distcheck" rule in GNU Automake before 1.11.6 and 1.12.x before 1.12.2 grants world-writable permissions to the extraction directory, which introduces a race condition that allows local. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.4). Public exploit code available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Automake +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.6
LOW Monitor

eXtplorer 2.1.0b6 uses world writable permissions for the /var/lib/extplorer/ftp_tmp directory, which allows local users to delete or overwrite arbitrary files. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.6), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Extplorer
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.6
LOW Monitor

logol 1.5.0 uses world writable permissions for the /var/lib/logol/results directory, which allows local users to delete or overwrite arbitrary files. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.6), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Debian Logol
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.3
LOW Monitor

gnome-screensaver 3.4.x before 3.4.4 and 3.5.x before 3.5.4, when multiple screens are used, only locks the screen with the active focus, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass screen. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.3). No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Screensaver Gnome
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.6
LOW Monitor

Open vSwitch 1.4.2 uses world writable permissions for (1) /var/lib/openvswitch/pki/controllerca/incoming/ and (2) /var/lib/openvswitch/pki/switchca/incoming/, which allows local users to delete and. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.6), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Openvswitch
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

lib/puppet/ssl/certificate_authority.rb in Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, does not properly restrict the characters in the Common Name field of a. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. Public exploit code available.

Privilege Escalation Debian Canonical +9
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW POC PATCH Monitor

lib/puppet/defaults.rb in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, uses 0644 permissions for last_run_report.yaml, which allows local users to obtain sensitive configuration. Rated low severity (CVSS 2.1), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Privilege Escalation Puppet Enterprise Puppet +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

IBM Power Hardware Management Console (HMC) 7R3.5.0 before SP4, 7R7.1.0 and 7R7.2.0 before 7R7.2.0 SP3, and 7R7.3.0 before SP2, and Systems Director Management Console (SDMC) 6R7.3.0 before SP2, does. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation IBM Power Hardware Management Console Firmware +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM This Month

The drag-and-drop implementation in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.57 on Mac OS X and Linux, and before 21.0.1180.60 on Windows and Chrome Frame, allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Chrome Google +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 4.9
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

OpenStack Keystone before 2012.1.1, as used in OpenStack Folsom before Folsom-1 and OpenStack Essex, does not properly implement token expiration, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. Public exploit code available.

Privilege Escalation Keystone Openstack +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.0
CRITICAL Act Now

IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) 1.1 through 1.3.1 allows remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary Linux commands via the (1) Command Line Interface or (2) Graphical. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM This Month

The get_attachment_link function in Template.pm in Bugzilla 2.x and 3.x before 3.6.10, 3.7.x and 4.0.x before 4.0.7, 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.2, and 4.3.x before 4.3.2 does not check whether an. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Mozilla Bugzilla
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Bugzilla 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.2 and 4.3.x before 4.3.2 uses bug-editor privileges instead of bugmail-recipient privileges during construction of HTML bugmail documents, which allows remote. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable.

Privilege Escalation Mozilla Bugzilla
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM POC This Month

The login implementation in AirDroid 1.0.4 beta allows remote attackers to bypass a multiple-login protection mechanism by modifying a pass value within JSON data. 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 Airdroid
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM This Month

Apple Xcode before 4.4 does not properly compose a designated requirement (DR) during signing of programs that lack bundle identifiers, which allows remote attackers to read keychain entries via a. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Apple Xcode
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.1
HIGH This Week

WebKit in Apple Safari before 6.0 does not properly handle file: URLs, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended sandbox restrictions and read arbitrary files by leveraging a WebProcess. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Apple Safari
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM This Month

WebKit in Apple Safari before 6.0 does not properly handle drag-and-drop events, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted web site. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Apple Safari
NVD
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