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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 (14429)

EPSS 0% CVSS 6.7
MEDIUM This Month

Full system takeover is achievable in Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management for Process 6.2.4 via the Data Import component, exploitable by a high-privileged attacker with local infrastructure access. Oracle classifies this as 'easily exploitable,' resulting in complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability despite the constrained attack surface. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing exists at time of analysis, limiting immediate real-world risk to insider threat and post-compromise escalation scenarios.

Privilege Escalation Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management For Process
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.7
MEDIUM This Month

Oracle Product Lifecycle Analytics 3.6.1 exposes a network-exploitable flaw in its Installation Issues component, allowing a high-privileged attacker to achieve full confidentiality and integrity compromise of all accessible application data alongside partial service disruption via HTTP. The 'Installation Issues' component designation and the 'Authentication Bypass' intelligence tag together suggest the flaw may reside in insecure post-installation artifacts, exposed setup endpoints, or improperly secured administrative interfaces left accessible after deployment. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and this CVE is not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.4
MEDIUM This Month

Unauthorized data access and manipulation in Oracle iRecruitment (E-Business Suite versions 12.2.3 through 12.2.15) is achievable by any low-privileged attacker with network HTTP access, requiring no user interaction. The 'Authentication Bypass' tag from EUVD suggests the flaw likely allows an authenticated user to circumvent authorization controls within the Install/Upgrade component, gaining read and write access to recruitment data beyond their assigned permissions. No active exploitation is confirmed (not in CISA KEV) and no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, though the low attack complexity makes this straightforward for any authenticated insider or compromised account.

Privilege Escalation Oracle Irecruitment
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.4
MEDIUM This Month

Full takeover of Oracle Inventory Management (E-Business Suite versions 12.2.3 through 12.2.15) is achievable by a high-privileged attacker with local infrastructure access exploiting a flaw in the Internal Operations component. The CVSS vector (AV:L/AC:H/PR:H) places this firmly in the category of post-compromise or insider-threat scenarios rather than remote opportunistic attacks, yet the confirmed C:H/I:H/A:H impact means a successful exploitation yields complete control of the affected instance. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis; Oracle addressed this in the July 2026 Critical Patch Update.

Privilege Escalation Oracle Inventory Management
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.6
MEDIUM This Month

Oracle Time and Labor (Internal Operations component) in E-Business Suite versions 12.2.3 through 12.2.15 exposes a difficult-to-exploit flaw that allows a high-privileged, network-authenticated attacker operating over HTTP to gain complete read access to all Time and Labor data and limited write access (insert, update, delete), with scope change implications affecting additional Oracle EBS components. Tagged as an authentication bypass by ENISA EUVD intelligence, this conflict with the CVSS PR:H requirement warrants investigative scrutiny - it may indicate a secondary authorization bypass rather than a full authentication bypass. No public exploit has been identified and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Oracle +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.4
MEDIUM This Month

Cross-product data exposure in Oracle Transportation Execution (E-Business Suite 12.2.3-12.2.15) allows an authenticated low-privileged attacker over HTTP to read and modify a subset of Transportation data while also impacting additional EBS products due to a scope change. The attack requires victim interaction, suggesting a client-side injection vector (consistent with the 'Authentication Bypass' tag and scope change in the CVSS vector), where attacker-controlled content is rendered by another user. Disclosed in Oracle's July 2026 Critical Patch Update with no confirmed public exploit or CISA KEV listing at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation Oracle E Business Suite
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.1
MEDIUM This Month

Oracle Labor Distribution, an Internal Operations component of Oracle E-Business Suite versions 12.2.3 through 12.2.15, permits a high-privileged local attacker to compromise data integrity by creating, deleting, or modifying critical application data. Despite carrying an 'Authentication Bypass' tag in available intelligence, the CVSS vector (AV:L/AC:H/PR:H) constrains exploitation to actors who already possess elevated logon access to the underlying infrastructure - suggesting an internal authorization bypass rather than a full authentication circumvention. No public exploit code exists and no active exploitation has been identified; this was disclosed as part of Oracle's Critical Patch Update for July 2026.

Privilege Escalation Oracle E Business Suite
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.4
LOW Monitor

Oracle Order Entry in E-Business Suite versions 12.2.3 through 12.2.15 exposes a low-severity local privilege vulnerability in its Internal Operations component, allowing a high-privileged local attacker to perform unauthorized data manipulation and cause partial service disruption. The attack requires physical or logical access to the infrastructure hosting the application and an already-elevated account, significantly constraining real-world exploitability. No public exploit code exists and this vulnerability has not been added to the CISA KEV catalog at the time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Oracle +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.7
MEDIUM This Month

Full takeover of Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database 26.1.1.1.0 is achievable by a high-privileged attacker with local logon access to the infrastructure through a flaw in the Kubernetes Operator component. The attack requires no user interaction and is characterized by Oracle as 'easily exploitable,' resulting in complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Privilege Escalation Kubernetes Oracle +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM This Month

Unauthorized data disclosure in Oracle Access Manager's Authentication Engine allows unauthenticated remote attackers to read a subset of OAM-accessible data over HTTP. Affected versions are 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.1.0 of Oracle Fusion Middleware's OAM component. Tagged as an Authentication Bypass, the flaw carries a CVSS 5.3 (Medium) rating with low confidentiality impact and no integrity or availability consequences; no public exploit or KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation Oracle Access Manager
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.4
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Full takeover of Oracle MySQL Server and MySQL Cluster is possible through a local, high-complexity vulnerability in the Clone Plugin component, affecting MySQL Server 8.4.0-8.4.10 and 9.7.0-9.7.1, and MySQL Cluster 8.0.0-8.0.47, 8.4.0-8.4.10, and 9.7.0-9.7.1. Exploitation requires an attacker with high privileges and local logon access to the host infrastructure where MySQL executes, under difficult-to-achieve conditions, limiting realistic risk despite the full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. No public exploit code and no CISA KEV listing have been identified at time of analysis, and Oracle disclosed this via the July 2026 Critical Patch Update.

Privilege Escalation Oracle Red Hat +4
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.1
MEDIUM This Month

Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.2.12 contains a Core component vulnerability exploitable by high-privileged local attackers that produces a scope change, potentially compromising systems beyond VirtualBox itself. Successful exploitation yields complete confidentiality loss of all VirtualBox-accessible data and a partial denial of service, making this an isolation-breach risk in multi-tenant or shared virtualization environments. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the AC:H rating signals difficult exploitation, but the scope change (S:C) elevates real-world concern for environments where VirtualBox hosts sensitive guest workloads.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.4
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

LFS deploy-key privilege escalation in Gitea (< 1.27.0) allows a holder of a write deploy key for any single repository owned by a victim to exfiltrate LFS objects from all private repositories that victim owns. The flaw originates in `routers/private/serv.go:275`, where Gitea embeds `repo.OwnerID` as the JWT `UserID` for deploy-key SSH sessions, causing the LFS batch handler at `services/lfs/server.go:268` to evaluate cross-repository authorization as if the repository owner - not the deploy key - were the requesting principal. If the victim is a Gitea site administrator, an unfiltered query in `models/git/lfs.go:226` exposes every LFS object on the entire instance. A public end-to-end PoC (poc.sh) is attached to the GitHub advisory; no CISA KEV listing exists at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation Docker Oracle +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM This Month

Privilege escalation in Eclipse hawkBit's Direct Device Integration (DDI) Controller allows any authenticated device to download firmware artifacts beyond those explicitly assigned to it, within the same tenant. The flaw - rooted in missing object-level authorization (CWE-284/CWE-862) - means a valid device credential is sufficient to access arbitrary firmware artifacts belonging to other devices in the same tenant, not just the device's own assigned updates. A secondary enumeration weakness in the software modules listing endpoint compounds the issue by enabling targeted discovery of available artifacts. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and no CISA KEV listing is present.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Eclipse Hawkbit Hawkbit +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Privilege escalation in rConfig before 8.2.8 allows any authenticated low-privilege user to self-assign or assign the Admin role to arbitrary accounts via a missing allowlist and absent authorization check in the Users API. The StoreUserRequest handler accepts a caller-supplied role field without validating it against permitted values and without verifying the requesting account already holds Admin status, enabling direct mass-assignment of the Admin role to any user model during creation or profile updates. No public exploit code has been identified and CISA KEV listing is absent; a vendor-released patch is available in version 8.2.8.

Privilege Escalation Rconfig
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.4
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Privilege escalation via second-order SurrealQL injection in SurrealDB before 2.0.5, 2.1.5, and 2.2.2 lets an authenticated OWNER or EDITOR user embed malicious SurrealQL inside unescaped table or field names that executes when a higher-privileged operator re-imports the CLI-exported backup, yielding root-level takeover of the instance. Reported by VulnCheck and discovered during a cure53 audit, it also enables a universal second-order injection against co-tenanted applications that let end users define custom tables or fields, even when query parameters are otherwise sanitized. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV, but the vendor and cure53 both rate the impact Critical (CVSS 4.0 base 9.4).

Privilege Escalation Command Injection Surrealdb
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.3
LOW Monitor

Insecure file permissions on the HCL DFMPro (for CATIA), DFXAnalytics, and DFXServer installer executables allow any locally authenticated non-administrative user to overwrite or replace those binaries with malicious code. When a privileged user subsequently runs the tampered installer - during installation, upgrade, or reinstallation - the attacker's binary executes in the elevated context, completing a local privilege escalation. No public exploit code has been identified and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV; however, the vendor-reported CVSS 3.3 score materially understates the potential impact of a successful exploitation scenario.

Privilege Escalation Dfxanalytics Dfxserver +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.1
MEDIUM This Month

Full SYSTEM-level code execution in Broadcom's Symantec IT Management Suite (ITMS) 8.7.3 is reachable by any non-administrator interactive user via a DCOM and Windows Task Scheduler logic chain, requiring no network access and no memory corruption. The attack is confined to the local host, meaning a standard user account with an interactive session on the ITMS server is sufficient to achieve unrestricted SYSTEM privileges. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, though Broadcom's advisory carries the highest urgency rating (U:Red) and the CVSS 4.0 supplemental metric AU:Y indicates the exploitation steps can be automated once understood.

Privilege Escalation RCE Buffer Overflow +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.1
MEDIUM This Month

Local privilege escalation via a misconfigured WMI provider in Broadcom's Symantec IT Management Suite (Altiris) exposes SYSTEM-readable files to any local standard user. The AltirisAgent_Stream WMI class fails to re-impersonate the calling user when servicing queries, reverting to the LocalSystem context instead - allowing unprivileged local users to bypass filesystem ACLs and read files that are restricted to SYSTEM or Administrator accounts, including configuration files, service logs, and stored secrets. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, though the technique is mechanically straightforward for any authenticated local user; the Broadcom advisory (SA 37995) is the authoritative disclosure source.

Privilege Escalation Broadcom Symantec It Management Suite
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.9
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

Unauthenticated path traversal in Nuclio Dashboard's function build API allows arbitrary file write as root inside the Dashboard container. The `spec.handler` field accepts unsanitized module names containing `../` sequences, which Go's `path.Join`/`path.Clean` resolves to escape the build temp directory; the resulting path is passed to `os.WriteFile` running as `uid=0`. Versions up to and including 1.15.27 are affected; a full working proof-of-concept has been publicly disclosed, though no confirmed active exploitation (CISA KEV) has been identified at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation Python Docker +3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.1
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Privilege escalation in BunkerWeb's UI and API allows a low-privileged authenticated user to inject attacker-controlled Datalog facts into signed Biscuit authorization tokens by manipulating the HTTP Host header, which was interpolated directly into the token builder string without parameterization. Affected are BunkerWeb open-source versions prior to 1.6.12 and BunkerWeb PRO prior to 0.57. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, but the public commit diff fully documents the injection mechanism, making reproduction straightforward for any authenticated low-privileged account holder.

Privilege Escalation Bunkerweb Bunkerity
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

Privilege-free process termination in OPSWAT AppRemover Driver (ardrv.sys v2017.10.02.1551 and earlier) allows any locally authenticated user to kill arbitrary processes - including endpoint security tools - by sending crafted requests to IOCTL handler 0x2420031 without any privilege validation. A public proof-of-concept is available on GitHub (redteamfortress/CVE-2026-36425), making this immediately reproducible by insider threats or post-compromise attackers seeking to disable defenses. No active exploitation has been confirmed in CISA KEV, but the defense-evasion potential elevates operational priority in environments running OPSWAT's OESIS Framework.

Privilege Escalation N A
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.8
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

Stale render context retention in ViewComponent::Base allows lower-privileged users to receive privileged UI from a prior admin render when component instances are reused across requests, tenants, or threads. Affected versions 4.0.0 through 4.11.x of the rubygems/view_component package fail to reset request-scoped instance variables between render_in calls, enabling cross-user authorization bypass, stale Host header injection into generated URLs, slot child context leakage, and cross-thread context corruption. A detailed publicly available proof-of-concept confirms all four impact vectors; no KEV listing is present, but the exploitability in realistic shared-registry patterns is directly demonstrated.

Privilege Escalation Race Condition
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.4
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Improper privilege management in TDengine Cloud DB prior to 3.4.1.15 allows an authenticated Data Reader admin_user to execute `create udf` (user-defined function) commands that should be restricted to higher-privilege roles. While the same role is correctly denied `show dnodes` and `create user`, the UDF creation permission was left ungated, creating a privilege escalation path within the database engine. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and this CVE has not been added to the CISA KEV catalog.

Privilege Escalation
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.2
MEDIUM This Month

Privilege escalation to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM is achievable on Windows systems hosting the Pegatron Tdelo64.sys kernel-mode driver, which exposes the \\.\TdeIo device interface without enforcing caller privilege checks or validating user-supplied kernel memory addresses in its IOCTL dispatcher. Any local user can open the device interface and send crafted IOCTL requests to perform arbitrary kernel memory read and write operations, enabling full system compromise including credential theft and security product bypass. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis; the vulnerability was reported to CERT/CC (VU#529388), and the provided CVSS score of 6.2 materially understates the real-world impact given the described kernel write capability.

Privilege Escalation Tdelo64 Sys
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.1
MEDIUM This Month

Permission control failure in the Bluetooth module of Huawei HarmonyOS and EMUI exposes devices to local exploitation that can degrade Bluetooth service availability and leak limited data. The flaw, classified under CWE-264, allows a local process operating without elevated privileges to bypass Bluetooth permission enforcement, potentially disrupting connectivity or reading restricted information. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing exists at time of analysis, but Huawei has disclosed this via its July 2026 security bulletin.

Privilege Escalation Emui Huawei +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.1
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Unvalidated chown in Samba's pam_winbind module allows a local user with narrow sudo delegation to transfer ownership of the root filesystem directory to a system account, causing system-wide denial of service on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 through 10. When mkhomedir is enabled and a system account has its home directory set to '/', any PAM-triggered authentication event run as that account via sudo invokes the chown without path sanitization. The resulting ownership change breaks SSH, sudo, and package-manager functionality, though the 0555 permissions on RHEL prevent write access escalation, confining the impact to high-severity availability loss. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing is identified at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Red Hat +7
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.6
MEDIUM This Month

Permission bypass in the HarmonyOS card module allows a local, unprivileged user - with required user interaction - to circumvent access controls, resulting in high availability impact alongside limited confidentiality and integrity exposure. The vulnerability affects Huawei HarmonyOS across all tracked versions per CPE data and is documented in Huawei's July 2026 security bulletin. No public exploit code and no CISA KEV listing have been identified at time of analysis, keeping real-world risk constrained to local attack scenarios.

Privilege Escalation Harmonyos Huawei
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.7
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Elevation of privileges in Dell PowerScale OneFS versions 9.5.0.0-9.10.1.7 and 9.11.0.0-9.13.0.2 allows a high-privileged local attacker to escalate beyond their authorized access level due to improper privilege management (CWE-269). While the CVSS 3.1 base score of 6.7 reflects the local access and high-privilege prerequisites that constrain exploitability, the full C:H/I:H/A:H impact triad signals complete system compromise upon successful exploitation - a serious outcome for enterprise NAS infrastructure that frequently stores sensitive organizational data. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation Dell Powerscale Onefs
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Month

Security feature bypass via improper privilege management (CWE-269) in Microsoft Windows DNS grants a locally authenticated attacker the ability to circumvent an unspecified security control, resulting in high integrity impact on affected Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 systems. Affected platforms include Windows 11 versions 24H2, 25H2, and 26H1, as well as Windows Server 2025 in both full and Server Core configurations. No active exploitation has been confirmed by CISA KEV, EPSS probability is very low at 0.22% (13th percentile), and SSVC rates exploitation status as none - indicating this is a patched local-only issue without known active abuse.

Privilege Escalation Microsoft Windows Server 2025 +4
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.1
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Privilege escalation in the TP-Link Archer VX1800v v1 HTTP authentication component allows an adjacent-network authenticated user with at least low-level account privileges to inject newline (CRLF) characters into internally constructed configuration data, ultimately elevating to full administrative access on the device. Affected firmware versions are those below v6092.0 Build 260521 RC.7927n; TP-Link has released a patched firmware. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and EPSS places exploitation probability at 0.39% (32nd percentile), consistent with SSVC's 'Exploitation: none' finding.

Privilege Escalation Archer Vx1800V V1 Tp Link Systems Inc
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.2
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Privilege escalation in Checkmk's mk_sap_hana agent plugin allows a local unprivileged user to execute arbitrary commands as root by planting a process whose name mimics a SAP HANA instance. The plugin, when running as root under the RUNAS=agent configuration and lacking explicit database configuration, blindly reads the OS process list to derive SAP HANA instance identifiers and injects them unsanitized into a shell command executed with root privileges - a textbook CWE-78 OS command injection. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing exists at time of analysis, but the attack prerequisites are achievable on any misconfigured Checkmk deployment that monitors SAP environments.

Privilege Escalation Command Injection SAP +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.5
HIGH This Week

Local privilege escalation in Siemens' IAM Client SDK, a shared authentication component bundled across a wide range of Siemens engineering and PLM products (Solid Edge, Teamcenter Visualization, Simcenter, Tecnomatix, COMOS, Designcenter NX), allows an authenticated local user to load attacker-controlled code through an untrusted search path (CWE-426) and gain elevated privileges. The flaw carries a CVSS 4.0 base score of 8.5 and requires only low local privileges with no user interaction. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV.

Privilege Escalation Siemens Simcenter Nastran +15
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Privilege escalation in Apache IoTDB 2.0.8 through 2.0.9 allows any authenticated low-privilege user to rename their own account to the reserved '__internal_auditor' identity and thereby inherit full tree-path access across all stored time-series data. The flaw stems from the system trusting a reserved auditor username without protecting it from ordinary user-driven renames, so a normal database user can self-promote to auditor-level authority. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV; it was reported and fixed by the Apache project in 2.0.10.

Privilege Escalation Apache Apache Iotdb +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.0
LOW PATCH Monitor

Privilege escalation in Palo Alto Networks Prisma® Browser on macOS enables a locally authenticated administrator with access to the local filesystem to perform actions at root privilege level. The vulnerability is scoped exclusively to macOS deployments of Prisma Browser - no other platforms or Palo Alto products are implicated per the advisory. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; the CVSS 4.0 base score of 2.0 reflects the substantial exploitation prerequisites that materially constrain real-world risk despite the full-system impact potential at root level.

Privilege Escalation Apple Paloalto +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 1.1
LOW PATCH Monitor

Privilege escalation in Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR Broker VM permits locally authenticated users to perform operations as the root user within the appliance. The vulnerability is constrained to the Broker VM itself - the CVSS 4.0 vector (SC:N/SI:N/SA:N) confirms no scope change to subsequent or adjacent systems, limiting the blast radius to the VM appliance. No public exploit exists (E:U) and no CISA KEV listing is present; the vendor-assigned CVSS 4.0 score of 1.1 reflects this low-urgency posture.

Privilege Escalation Paloalto Cortex Xdr Broker Vm +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.4
CRITICAL Act Now

Local privilege escalation in Xen's Windows PV (paravirtualized) drivers arises because the XenBus interface (CVE-2025-27464) is exposed to userspace with no security descriptor, leaving it fully accessible to any unprivileged user on a Windows guest. Because XenBus mediates communication between the guest and the hypervisor's device backend, an unprivileged local user can abuse this open interface to gain elevated privileges and potentially impact the guest and the virtualization layer. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV; it is documented in Xen Security Advisory XSA-468.

Privilege Escalation Microsoft Xen +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.4
CRITICAL Act Now

Local privilege escalation in Xen's Windows PV (paravirtualized) drivers arises because the XenIface interface is exposed to userspace with no security descriptor, leaving it fully accessible to unprivileged users. Any low-privileged local user on an affected Windows guest can interact with this facility to gain elevated control over the system. This is one of three sibling issues (alongside CVE-2025-27462 XenCons and CVE-2025-27464 XenBus) disclosed in Xen Security Advisory XSA-468; no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation Microsoft Xen +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.4
CRITICAL Act Now

Local privilege escalation in the Xen Windows PV Drivers (the XenCons paravirtualized console interface) lets any unprivileged user of a Windows guest reach a device object that ships with no security descriptor, so its facilities are fully accessible to non-administrators. Successful abuse can yield full compromise of the guest with integrity, confidentiality and availability impact, and the vendor scores it critical (CVSS 4.0 base 9.4) with subsequent-system impact. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not on CISA KEV. This is one of three related XSA-468 issues (XenCons/CVE-2025-27462, XenIface/CVE-2025-27463, XenBus/CVE-2025-27464).

Privilege Escalation Microsoft Xen +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.4
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Local file inclusion in DSpace's OAI-ORE Ingestion Crosswalk allows a collection administrator to expose arbitrary server-side files as ingested bitstreams by supplying or triggering a malicious ORE XML document referencing file:/// URIs. Versions 7.x through 7.6.6, 8.0-8.3, and 9.0-9.2 are confirmed affected; fixed releases (7.6.7, 8.4, 9.3, 10.0) are available per the GitHub security advisory. No public exploit and no CISA KEV listing exist at time of analysis; the CVSS score of 4.4 reflects meaningful constraints on exploitation (high privileges, high complexity).

Privilege Escalation Tomcat
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.3
MEDIUM This Month

Privilege escalation in the Themehunk Login Registration WordPress plugin (versions up to and including 1.0.2) allows unauthenticated attackers to self-register accounts with elevated roles - including editor - by supplying an arbitrary 'role' parameter to the publicly exposed /thlogin/v1/register REST endpoint. The handle_frontend_register() function validates the supplied role only against get_editable_roles(), which returns every administratively configurable role on the site, then passes it directly to wp_insert_user() without restricting it to the subscriber level expected for public self-registration. Exploitation is conditioned on public user registration being enabled on the target site; no public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Wordpress Plugin +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

Privilege escalation in SourceCodester's Onlne Examination & Learning Management System 1.0 (the product name itself contains a typo - 'Onlne' instead of 'Online') exposes an unauthenticated registration endpoint at register.php where the role parameter is not server-side validated, allowing any remote actor to self-assign elevated privileges at account creation. A publicly available exploit has been published on Pastebin, confirming the attack is trivially reproducible. No CISA KEV listing exists, but the CVSS 4.0 E:P modifier and Pastebin reference corroborate working exploit availability; no vendor patch has been identified at time of analysis.

PHP Privilege Escalation Onlne Examination Learning Management System +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.5
HIGH This Week

** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input in the ASUS AI Suite 3 driver allows a local user to access unintended memory regions via crafted IOCTL requests,. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Ai Suite 3 Asus
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.3
HIGH This Week

** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input in the ASUS AI Suite 3 driver allows a local user to bypass security validation and access restricted memory blocks. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.3). No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Ai Suite 3 Asus
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.7
MEDIUM This Month

Local privilege escalation in the Modem component across 80+ MediaTek chipsets allows an attacker already holding System-level access to bypass permission enforcement (CWE-280) and escalate further within the device. The vulnerability is confirmed by MediaTek in their July 2026 Product Security Bulletin (Patch ID: MOLY01716533, Issue ID: MSV-6309) and affects a broad swath of chipsets spanning low-end to flagship tiers. No user interaction is required for exploitation, but the prerequisite of System-level access significantly constrains the realistic attack surface. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation Mediatek Chipset Mediatek Inc
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.7
MEDIUM This Month

Heap buffer overflow in the Telephony subsystem of MediaTek chipsets enables local privilege escalation on affected Android devices, delivering full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. Twenty-two specific MediaTek SoC variants are confirmed affected, spanning the MT6xxx and MT8xxx mid-range and budget families. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis; MediaTek has issued patch ALPS11006447 via their July 2026 security bulletin, but exploitation requires a pre-existing System-level privilege on the device, making this a chaining vulnerability rather than a standalone entry vector.

Privilege Escalation Buffer Overflow Heap Overflow +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

Privilege escalation in Red Hat Build of Keycloak allows an operator holding the manage-clients permission to inject a hardcoded role mapper into any client configuration, causing the realm-admin role to appear in subsequently issued tokens. This effectively grants the attacker full administrative control over the entire Keycloak realm, overriding scope restrictions that are intended to prevent exactly this delegation boundary crossing. No active exploitation has been confirmed (not listed in CISA KEV), no public proof-of-concept has been identified at time of analysis, and no EPSS data was available; however, the high-impact nature of achieving realm-admin privileges makes this a meaningful insider or delegated-admin threat.

Privilege Escalation Red Hat Build Of Keycloak Red Hat
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Local privilege escalation in Nokia MantaRay NM (network management) lets an attacker who already holds local administrative privileges abuse a misconfigured sudo command set to obtain full root access on the host, gaining complete control of the filesystem and arbitrary root command execution. The flaw was reported by Nokia and affects versions prior to NM 25R1-NM, with no public exploit identified at time of analysis and a low EPSS exploitation probability of 0.17%.

Privilege Escalation Nokia Mantaray Nm
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.4
MEDIUM This Month

Use-after-free in the SSSD PAM responder crashes the authentication daemon when a local attacker manipulates YubiKey or smartcard contents during an authentication attempt on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 through 10. The primary realized impact is a denial of service - the PAM responder crash disrupts all authentication - but the underlying memory corruption also presents a difficult-to-exploit privilege escalation path. No public exploit code exists at time of analysis, and the CVSS vector (AV:L/AC:H/PR:H) reflects a tightly constrained local attack requiring high privileges and significant complexity, limiting realistic blast radius to insider-threat and physical-access scenarios.

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 +7
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

Credential exposure in turso-cli versions 1.0.25 and earlier allows any local user on the same host to read the Turso platform JWT stored world-readable at mode 0o644 in settings.json, granting full access to all Turso organizations the victim belongs to. The root cause is turso-cli's failure to override Viper's insecure default configPermissions before writing credentials - a deviation from the explicit 0o600 baseline established by comparable CLIs including gh, aws, docker, and gcloud. A proof-of-concept demonstrating the 0o644 mode is included in the advisory; no active exploitation is listed in CISA KEV.

Privilege Escalation Docker Apple
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Silent audit trail corruption in the Linux kernel's capability auditing subsystem allows a local attacker who manipulates inheritable capabilities as a precursor to privilege escalation to have that manipulation go unrecorded in CAPSET audit logs since 2008. The `__audit_log_capset()` function records `cap_effective` into the `cap_pi` (inheritable) field due to a copy-paste error, meaning compliance and forensic systems receive falsified capability state that masks the inheritable-cap modification step of a privilege escalation chain. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and the EPSS score of 0.18% (7th percentile) reflects that exploitation as a standalone attack is not observed in the wild.

Privilege Escalation Linux Red Hat +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

Signal delivery bypass in FreeBSD's thr_kill2(2) system call allows an unprivileged local user - or a jailed process - to send arbitrary signals to any process on the system, including root-owned processes and critical daemons, causing Denial of Service. The flaw stems from a missing check on the return value of p_cansignal(), the kernel's permission enforcement primitive: the signal is unconditionally delivered before the error is propagated to the caller. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and SSVC assesses exploitation as none, though globally sequential thread IDs reduce the skill requirement to simple brute force, and the jail boundary bypass adds a container-escape dimension absent from the base CVSS score.

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Freebsd
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Excessive user profile data disclosure in JetBrains YouTrack before 2026.2.16593 results from overly permissive default role configuration, allowing any authenticated low-privilege user to read more user profile attributes than intended. The root cause is CWE-276 (Incorrect Default Permissions), where the shipped default role grants broader read access to user directory data than the principle of least privilege requires. No public exploit or confirmed active exploitation exists at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation Youtrack JetBrains
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Insecure default file permissions in Nextflow's `auth login` command expose Seqera Platform OIDC bearer tokens to any local user on shared POSIX systems running affected versions 25.09.2-edge through 26.04.1. The credential file `seqera-auth.config` is written via Java NIO without explicit permission bits, landing at mode 0644 under the typical umask 022, making it world-readable on HPC login nodes, shared workstations, and jump hosts - exactly the infrastructure where Nextflow is most commonly deployed. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and this vulnerability is not currently in the CISA KEV catalog, but the attack requires only a standard local account and trivial filesystem read, making it a practical lateral-movement primitive in multi-tenant research computing environments.

Privilege Escalation Java
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

API key scope bypass in Outline prior to 1.8.0 allows an authenticated attacker holding a limited-scope API key or OAuth token to perform actions on restricted endpoints by exploiting a URL fragment handling discrepancy. The `AuthenticationHelper.canAccess` function evaluates authorization against the fragment-appended URL path rather than the actual routed endpoint, enabling privilege escalation beyond the key's intended permissions. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis, but the low attack complexity (PR:L, AC:L) makes this straightforward to exploit for any valid API key holder.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Outline
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Flowise versions 3.0.13 and earlier silently fall back to a hardcoded AES-256-CBC encryption key derived from the publicly known literal 'Secre$t' when TOKEN_HASH_SECRET is not configured, exposing the user and workspace IDs encoded in the 'meta' field of every JWT token issued by an unconfigured deployment. An authenticated user or network-positioned attacker who obtains any valid JWT can decrypt this metadata using the default key - now disclosed in the GHSA advisory and source code - and re-encrypt manipulated identifiers to probe downstream access controls. JWT signature validation is handled independently, so this does not constitute standalone token forgery, but identifier disclosure and metadata manipulation create a realistic stepping stone toward privilege escalation or unauthorized workspace access in multi-tenant deployments. No active exploitation is confirmed (not in CISA KEV) and no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis; vendor-released patch Flowise 3.1.0 is available.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Node.js +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Private argument injection in the Ash Elixir framework (versions 3.0.0 through 3.29.2) allows end users to set action arguments explicitly marked public?: false, which are designed to be controlled exclusively by trusted server-side code. The filtering logic in both the regular changeset path and the atomic changeset path fails to enforce the public? flag when input parameters arrive as string (binary) keys - the default format for user-supplied JSON or form data. An attacker who submits a string-keyed parameter matching a private argument name can inject an arbitrary value, potentially enabling privilege escalation or integrity violations if that argument drives authorization decisions such as acting_user_id or record ownership. No public exploit code has been identified and this vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV.

Privilege Escalation Ash Ash Project
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

Unauthenticated organization team enumeration in Gogs exposes team IDs, names, descriptions, and permission levels (read/write/admin/owner) to any network-accessible caller without credentials. All versions prior to 0.14.3 are affected - the `GET /api/v1/orgs/:orgname/teams` endpoint was placed in a route group missing the `reqToken()` middleware, meaning the `orgAssignment(true)` middleware loads the org object but enforces no authentication. A publicly available proof-of-concept demonstrates exploitation via a single unauthenticated `curl` command. No KEV listing is present, but the low attack complexity and zero authentication requirement make this a meaningful reconnaissance aid for follow-on attacks against Gogs installations.

Privilege Escalation Information Disclosure Suse
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Privilege escalation in Gogs versions prior to 0.14.3 allows repository admin collaborators to elevate their own access to owner-level by exploiting an off-by-one boundary check in the `ChangeCollaborationAccessMode` function. The web route accepts a raw integer `mode` query parameter, and the faulty guard `mode > AccessModeOwner` evaluates to false when mode equals 4, letting an admin (mode=3) POST `mode=4` to silently receive full owner privileges - including the ability to delete the repository, transfer ownership, and erase wiki data. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, though the advisory includes complete reproduction steps that function as a de facto proof of concept.

Privilege Escalation Suse
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Privilege escalation in NanoClaw before 2.1.0 lets scoped admins cross agent-group authorization boundaries by submitting forged or stale connect callback values during the channel-registration approval flow. The `handleChannelApprovalResponse` function accepted any `connect:ag-X` callback value without verifying that the approver held admin privileges over the target agent group, allowing a scoped admin to wire messaging channels into groups they do not govern. No active exploitation has been confirmed (not listed in CISA KEV), and an upstream fix is available in commit 0eef8fafdd7c475ab5fd8d37ea566a81e74cd834 (PR #2566).

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Nanoclaw +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.8
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Privilege escalation in NanoClaw before 2.1.17 allows confined agent containers to bypass their architectural confinement boundary by invoking the `create_agent` delivery-action handler without host-side authorization. The handler performed privileged central-database writes - creating agent groups, container configurations, and destinations - gated only by a container-side MCP tool check that, being inside the untrusted container, is trivially bypassed by writing outbound system rows directly. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; a vendor patch is available and the fix is documented in a public GitHub commit.

Privilege Escalation Nanoclaw Nanocoai
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.8
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Nuxt's development server on Linux exposes an unprotected vite-node IPC server via a Linux abstract-namespace Unix socket, enabling unprivileged co-resident users to read arbitrary files - including .env secrets and SSH private keys - through the SSR module pipeline. Affected are Nuxt 4.0.0 through 4.4.6 and Nuxt 3.18.0 through 3.21.6 when running `nuxt dev` on Linux with Node.js 20+, outside Docker or StackBlitz. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, but exploitation demands only a local shell account and basic Unix socket programming knowledge; production builds are entirely unaffected.

Privilege Escalation Nuxt
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.9
LOW PATCH Monitor

Denial of service in Inspektor Gadget's USDT note parser (pkg/uprobetracer/usdt.go) allows an unprivileged container process to crash or OOM-kill the privileged IG host process by placing a crafted ELF binary at a path targeted by a custom USDT gadget. Two distinct attack vectors exist: a panic from out-of-bounds slice access when DescSize is artificially small, and unbounded memory allocation (~4 GiB) when NameSize or DescSize is set to 0xFFFFFFFF. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; critically, no gadget shipped by the Inspektor Gadget project uses USDT probes, so only deployments running operator-developed custom USDT gadgets are exposed.

Privilege Escalation RCE Denial Of Service +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 3% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

World-readable configuration file permissions in motionEye <= 0.43.1b4 expose the admin SHA1 password hash to any local user account on the host. The flaw affects both supported installation methods (manual and motioneye_init), making it a software default rather than a deployment error. Proof-of-concept code is publicly available in the vendor's GitHub Security Advisory; when chained with GHSA-45h7-499j-7ww3 (hash-as-signing-key authentication bypass) and CVE-2025-60787 (OS command injection requiring admin auth), a local unprivileged attacker can escalate to the Motion daemon user - often root - without any elevated privileges. No active exploitation is confirmed in CISA KEV at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Information Disclosure +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.9
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

Privilege escalation in LiquidFiles before 4.2.12 allows an authenticated Admin of a secondary (non-default) domain to elevate to full Sysadmin access by manipulating group settings within their managed secondary domain group. This broken access control flaw (CWE-285) collapses the authorization boundary between domain-scoped Admin and system-wide Sysadmin roles, granting an attacker complete platform control. No public exploitation has been confirmed in CISA KEV, but a public proof-of-concept is available from Project Black (PRJBLK), meaningfully elevating real-world risk above what the 5.9 CVSS score alone suggests.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Liquidfiles
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.1
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Authentication logic bypass in Capgo before 12.128.2 permits a team or organization security settings manager to enforce mandatory two-factor authentication across all team members without having 2FA active on their own account. The platform never validates the initiator's own 2FA enrollment state before committing the policy change, creating an asymmetric enforcement condition where the policy creator is effectively exempt from the mandate they impose. No public exploit code has been identified and Capgo is not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog; the CVSS 4.0 score of 5.1 (PR:H) reflects that exploitation is constrained to already-privileged insiders.

Privilege Escalation Capgo
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.5
HIGH POC This Week

Malwarebytes 4.5 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the MBAMService executable that allows local attackers to escalate privileges by injecting malicious code into the system root. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Malwarebytes
NVD Exploit-DB VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.5
HIGH POC This Week

Brother SAPSprint 7.60 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the SAPSprint service binary that allows local attackers to escalate privileges. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Sapsprint Brother
NVD Exploit-DB VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.5
HIGH POC This Week

Wondershare PDFelement 5.2.9 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability due to an unquoted service path in the WsAppService Windows service. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Microsoft Pdfelement +1
NVD Exploit-DB VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.5
HIGH POC This Week

Winstep 18.06.0096 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the Winstep Xtreme Service that allows local attackers to escalate privileges. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Winstep
NVD Exploit-DB VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.5
HIGH POC This Week

NetDrive 2.6.12 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the Netdrive2_Service_Netdrive2 service that allows local users to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Netdrive
NVD Exploit-DB VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.5
HIGH POC This Week

Windows Firewall Control 4.8.6.0 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability that allows local attackers to escalate privileges by inserting malicious executables in the service path. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Microsoft Windows Firewall Control
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.5
HIGH POC This Week

Comodo Dragon Browser versions up to 52.15.25.663 contain a privilege escalation vulnerability in the DragonUpdater service due to an unquoted service path running with SYSTEM privileges. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation RCE Dragon Browser +1
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.5
HIGH POC This Week

Vembu StoreGrid 4.0 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the RemoteBackup and RemoteBackup_webServer services that allows local attackers to escalate privileges. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Vembu Storegrid Vembu
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.5
HIGH POC This Week

Realtek High Definition Audio Driver 6.0.1.6730 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability that allows local attackers to escalate privileges by placing a malicious executable in the service. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Realtek High Definition Audio Driver Realtek
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Symlink-following in Cloud Foundry bpm-release's setupBpmLogs function enables a container-to-host confidentiality breach, allowing a compromised low-privileged process inside a bpm container to manipulate root into chowning an arbitrary host file - including /etc/shadow - to the vcap user. All bpm-release versions prior to v1.4.30 are affected. Once ownership of /etc/shadow is taken, the attacker reads every host password hash via bpm's existing read-only /etc bind mount, effectively breaking the container boundary without requiring any user interaction. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis, though the low attack complexity and clear exploitation path make this a credible near-term risk.

Privilege Escalation Bpm Release Cloud Foundry Foundation
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.4
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Strimzi Kafka Operator versions 1.0.0 and earlier provision the Entity Operator ServiceAccount with combined RBAC rights for both the Topic Operator and User Operator regardless of which sub-operators are actually enabled in the Kafka custom resource, violating the principle of least privilege. When only one of the two sub-operators is deployed, the overly permissive ServiceAccount can access KafkaUser custom resources and namespace Secrets (when the User Operator is absent) or KafkaTopic custom resources (when the Topic Operator is absent). No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog; however, the High confidentiality impact (C:H) due to potential Secret access elevates the urgency of patching.

Privilege Escalation
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.3
LOW PATCH Monitor

Node.js permission model bypass via FileHandle.utimes() allows local low-privilege users to modify file timestamps on paths outside their permitted write scope. Affecting Node.js 26.x before v26.3.1, this flaw is only exploitable when the experimental permission model is explicitly enabled via --experimental-permission, substantially limiting exposure. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis, and the vendor-released patch (v26.3.1) is confirmed available as of 2026-06-18.

Privilege Escalation Node.js Node Js
NVD HeroDevs GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Sensitive actuator endpoints in Steeltoe.Management.Endpoint and Steeltoe.Management.EndpointCore expose heap dumps, environment variables, and thread dumps to low-trust Cloud Foundry roles (Space Auditors) due to incorrect default permission levels. Affected versions inherit the base class default of EndpointPermissions.Restricted - which maps to CF's read_basic_data scope - rather than overriding to EndpointPermissions.Full (read_sensitive_data), the permission level Spring Boot's equivalent integration correctly enforces. No public exploit code or KEV listing exists at time of analysis; however, the CVSS PR:L rating reflects that any valid CF credential with Space Auditor privileges is sufficient to reach the affected endpoints.

Privilege Escalation Java Steeltoe Management Endpoint +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.8
MEDIUM This Month

DOM-based XSS in Shaarli's Thumbnail Synchronizer allows stored malicious bookmark titles to execute arbitrary JavaScript in an administrator's browser session when thumbnail synchronization is triggered. Versions 0.16.1 and prior are affected; the root cause is unsanitized innerHTML injection in thumbnails-update.js after the backend's ThumbnailsController::ajaxUpdate returns raw, unescaped bookmark titles via AJAX. Successful exploitation can lead to session hijacking, privilege escalation, and backdoor injection against administrator accounts. No public exploit or KEV listing is confirmed at time of analysis; a vendor patch is available in v0.16.2.

XSS Privilege Escalation Shaarli
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.8
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Insecure default file permissions (mode 0o644) in Hermes Agent before v0.16.0 expose two sensitive data files - response_store.db and webhook_subscriptions.json - to any local user on the host system, enabling direct extraction of conversation history, tool payloads, prompts, and per-route HMAC webhook secrets. Any locally authenticated user on the same host can read these files without elevated privileges. HMAC secret exposure is particularly severe because it enables forging authenticated webhook requests, extending impact beyond passive information disclosure into potential privilege escalation - consistent with the 'Privilege Escalation' tag in the intelligence record. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and this is not currently listed in CISA KEV.

Privilege Escalation Information Disclosure Hermes Agent +1
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.0
MEDIUM This Month

Privilege escalation in the Cisco Umbrella Virtual Appliance vmadmin CLI enables an authenticated local attacker holding vmadmin-level credentials to elevate access to root on the affected device. The flaw, classified as CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management), arises because the vmadmin CLI does not adequately validate or restrict specific commands that can be leveraged as a privilege escalation path. No public exploit code has been identified and the CVE is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog at time of analysis; the CVSS 6.0 Medium score reflects the high-privilege prerequisite that meaningfully constrains the realistic attacker pool.

Privilege Escalation Cisco Cisco Umbrella Insights Virtual Appliance
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.4
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Implicit execution of untrusted repository-controlled TypeScript/JavaScript extensions in Pi coding agent (npm package @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent) before 0.79.0 allows an attacker who controls a repository to execute arbitrary code with the victim user's full process privileges. Pi's startup path auto-loaded project-local extensions from a repository's .pi directory - including executable TypeScript/JavaScript modules - without any trust gate or user prompt, meaning a developer who cloned and ran Pi in a malicious repository would silently execute attacker-supplied extension code. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and this CVE is not listed in CISA KEV, but the attack class (supply-chain / repository-as-malware-delivery) is highly relevant to developer tooling security.

Privilege Escalation
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.8
MEDIUM This Month

Privilege escalation in JetFormBuilder WordPress plugin versions 3.6.1 and earlier allows authenticated subscribers to elevate their role to a higher-privileged level within the WordPress instance. The root cause is incorrect privilege assignment (CWE-266) in the plugin's form processing logic, enabling the lowest authenticated WordPress user role to gain unauthorized administrative or elevated access. No public exploit code or confirmed active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis; CVSS reflects high confidentiality and integrity impact if the high-complexity exploitation conditions are satisfied.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Jetformbuilder +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Privilege escalation in the Support Ticket Management System WordPress plugin (versions 1.9 and earlier) by Theme Passion allows remote unauthenticated attackers to elevate privileges on affected WordPress sites. With a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) and no public exploit identified at time of analysis, the flaw maps to CWE-266 (Incorrect Privilege Assignment) and is tracked in the Patchstack database. Successful exploitation likely yields administrator-level access to the WordPress instance, enabling full site takeover.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Wordpress Plugin +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in the Genemy WordPress theme versions 1.6.6 and earlier allows authenticated subscriber-level users to elevate their privileges to higher roles, gaining administrative control over affected WordPress sites. The flaw, reported by Patchstack and tracked under CWE-266 (Incorrect Privilege Assignment), affects all installations using the jthemes Genemy theme up to and including 1.6.6, and no public exploit identified at time of analysis. Given the low attack complexity and minimal authentication requirement (any subscriber account), this represents a high-impact issue for any WordPress site running the affected theme with open user registration.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Genemy +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in the Sonaar WordPress theme through version 4.27.4 allows an authenticated low-privileged user (Subscriber role) to elevate their permissions, gaining administrative control over the WordPress site. The flaw is categorized as CWE-266 (Incorrect Privilege Assignment) and was disclosed via Patchstack; no public exploit identified at time of analysis, but the low attacker prerequisites (any Subscriber account, which is often self-registerable on WordPress sites) make this a meaningful risk for affected installations.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Sonaar +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Local privilege escalation in Google Android 17 stems from improper input validation across multiple code paths that allows a low-privileged app or local user to bypass provisioning controls and gain elevated privileges without user interaction. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the EPSS score of 0.13% (3rd percentile) reflects no observed exploitation activity, though the CVSS 7.8 reflects the high impact once preconditions are met.

Privilege Escalation Google
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.0
HIGH This Week

Local/adjacent privilege escalation in Google Android 17 allows a nearby attacker to gain approval for a third-party passkey (FIDO/WebAuthn credential) pairing entry because a required permission check is missing across multiple code paths. Because the flaw sits in the passkey pairing-approval logic and needs no user interaction, an attacker within proximal/adjacent range holding limited privileges can escalate to full credential access. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and EPSS exploitation probability is very low (0.13%, 3rd percentile).

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Google
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Local privilege escalation in Google Android 17 arises in the overrideConfig method of CarrierConfigLoader.java, where a missing UID authorization check lets a low-privileged local application override carrier configuration it should not control. Exploitation requires no user interaction and grants total impact over confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected component, but there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and CISA SSVC rates exploitation as none. EPSS is low (0.13%, 3rd percentile), consistent with a not-yet-exploited local flaw.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Google
NVD VulDB
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