Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Description

The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

Associated Reviewed Advisories

Vulnerabilities classified under CWE-269 ordered by modification date.

25 reviewed records
Advisory ID NVD ID Severity PURLs Summary Last Modified
GHSA-pw5q-rjx4-7f7p CVE-2026-96627 HIGH

Arcane: Delegated users:update permission allows admin account takeover via password reset (no privilege-hierarchy check)

2026-10-16
GHSA-p7v4-vr35-mj6f CVE-2026-95837 HIGH

containerd CRI plugin: Checkpoint restore bypasses destination security context

2026-10-15
GHSA-637c-6jxx-4rwm CVE-2026-77524 CRITICAL

KEDA: Privilege escalation from namespace admin to cluster admin via KEDA TriggerAuthentication

2026-10-15
GHSA-54mm-6729-r5wp CVE-2026-85990 HIGH -

Leantime: Any Authenticated User Can Self-Escalate to Admin via Unauthorized JSON-RPC Methods

2026-10-15
GHSA-pjr3-86v4-5p7w - MODERATE

Vikunja: Explicit lower-permission share on a sub-project is silently overridden by an inherited parent permission (broken access control / privilege-management regression in v2.6.0)

2026-10-09
GHSA-v3p6-34mc-hj7v CVE-2026-57458 HIGH

Vikunja: Scoped API token can mint unrestricted OAuth session credentials

2026-10-09
GHSA-4pvx-fwjj-8gpc CVE-2026-105678 MODERATE

Ghost: Editors Could Promote Staff Users to Their Own Role

2026-10-07
GHSA-cq7v-rfgc-5c7v CVE-2026-106492 HIGH

Backstage: Improper preservation of access restrictions during service credential delegation

2026-10-07
GHSA-x249-cx55-2h87 CVE-2026-46434 HIGH

wger: Trainer Privilege Escalation - Improper Privilege Management

2026-10-07
GHSA-w3vv-58gj-gw77 CVE-2026-104854 HIGH

Nx daemon and plugin worker sockets are accessible to other local users

2026-10-05
GHSA-x4q3-gcj3-m6cf CVE-2026-73802 CRITICAL

gitea-runner: workflow container.options passes host namespaces and capability flags to job container when privileged mode is disabled

2026-10-02
GHSA-6rh5-qq4q-97xh CVE-2026-92958 HIGH

vm2: NodeVM builtin denylist bypass via fs/promises despite -fs, allowing host filesystem writes

2026-10-01
GHSA-7c3p-84r8-h79q - HIGH

Duplicate Advisory: vm2: NodeVM builtin denylist bypass via fs/promises despite -fs, allowing host filesystem writes

2026-10-01
GHSA-8686-vhfx-7r3j CVE-2026-92957 CRITICAL

vm2: NodeVM node:-prefixed negative builtin deny bypass exposes child_process

2026-10-01
GHSA-28q4-xrqh-9479 - CRITICAL

Duplicate Advisory: vm2: NodeVM node:-prefixed negative builtin deny bypass exposes child_process

2026-10-01
GHSA-9qh4-3jw8-366w CVE-2026-102676 HIGH

Electron: <webview> can enable Node.js integration in Web Workers despite embedder restrictions

2026-09-29
GHSA-3w57-8xmc-8v26 CVE-2026-63349 HIGH

AnyIO run_process/open_process ignores extra_groups and can retain parent supplementary groups

2026-09-18
GHSA-xhfv-7758-r9hx CVE-2026-75837 HIGH -

Grav: Missing admin.super guard on core group blueprint access field allows admin.users operator to escalate to super-admin

2026-09-17
GHSA-m97h-2qj3-5773 - CRITICAL -

Duplicate Advisory: Grav: Missing admin.super guard on core group blueprint access field allows admin.users operator to escalate to super-admin

2026-09-17
GHSA-xv9m-fm3w-8w5x CVE-2026-46696 LOW -

October CMS: Safe Mode Sandbox Bypass via Session Store and Forwarded Builder Calls

2026-09-14
GHSA-2724-6cpj-gf3v CVE-2026-87998 HIGH

Open WebUI: Non-admin users can delete admin-owned external knowledge connections via knowledge base deletion

2026-09-10
GHSA-rh53-xvx2-j327 CVE-2026-73842 CRITICAL

OpenChoreo: cluster-gateway internal proxy performs no caller authentication and is not read-only — data-plane Secret disclosure and arbitrary Kubernetes mutation

2026-09-04
GHSA-g29h-pfmp-qp9r CVE-2026-75857 HIGH

CodeWhale: exec_shell_interact sends LLM-controlled input to a running shell without an approval prompt (privilege escalation)

2026-09-04
GHSA-cxvf-gvfq-36w2 CVE-2026-73293 HIGH

Semaphore UI: Manager-to-owner privilege escalation via custom-role slug collision

2026-09-03
GHSA-pqwr-phvv-v49f CVE-2024-7039 HIGH

Withdrawn Advisory: Open WebUI Allows Admin Deletion via API Endpoint

2026-09-02