About “Privilege Escalation”

A curated feed of “Privilege Escalation”-related CVEs appears below. We currently track 7822 CVEs for this tag (all time). In the last 365 days, 1227 were published. Average CVSS is 7.7 (all time; 7.9 over 365d), and 84% are rated High/Critical (all time). Top CWEs (last 365 days): CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management, CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment, CWE-862 - Missing Authorization.

In our taxonomy this topic maps to a LOW impact class. Vendor advisories and release notes are key. Verify compatibility matrices, prefer supported long term versions, and stage rollouts with monitoring. Use the filters below to sort by CVSS, risk and CWE. Each detail page highlights vendor advisories and mitigation tips.

CVEs tagged with this topic. Filters apply to the whole list (loaded from JSON).

CVSS ≥ 0.0
2024-04-09
High

CVE-2024-26230

Windows Telephony Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-26229

Windows CSC Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-26218

Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-26216

Windows File Server Resource Management Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-26213

Microsoft Brokering File System Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-26211

Windows Remote Access Connection Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-26158

Microsoft Install Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21447

Windows Authentication Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Medium

CVE-2024-21424

Azure Compute Gallery Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21324

Microsoft Defender for IoT Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-20693

Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-3046

In Eclipse Kura LogServlet component included in versions 5.0.0 to 5.4.1, a specifically crafted request to the servlet can allow an unauthenticated user to retrieve the device logs. Also, downloaded…

High

CVE-2024-2975

A race condition was identified through which privilege escalation was possible in certain configurations.

2024-04-06
Critical

CVE-2024-25029

IBM Personal Communications 14.0.6 through 15.0.1 includes a Windows service that is vulnerable to remote code execution (RCE) and local privilege escalation (LPE). The vulnerability allows any unpri…

2024-04-04
High

CVE-2024-31498

Yubico ykman-gui (aka YubiKey Manager GUI) before 1.2.6 on Windows, when Edge is not used, allows privilege escalation because browser windows can open as Administrator.

Low

CVE-2024-30252

Livemarks is a browser extension that provides RSS feed bookmark folders. Versions of Livemarks prior to 3.7 are vulnerable to cross-site request forgery. A malicious website may be able to coerce th…

2024-04-03
High

CVE-2024-0394

Rapid7 Minerva Armor versions below 4.5.5 suffer from a privilege escalation vulnerability whereby an authenticated attacker can elevate privileges and execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privilege.…

High

CVE-2024-0172

Dell PowerEdge Server BIOS and Dell Precision Rack BIOS contain an improper privilege management security vulnerability. An unauthenticated local attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability…

2024-03-29
Critical

CVE-2024-2409

The MasterStudy LMS plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.1. This is due to insufficient validation checks within the _register_user() f…

2024-03-28
High

CVE-2024-2947

A flaw was found in Cockpit. Deleting a sosreport with a crafted name via the Cockpit web interface can lead to a command injection vulnerability, resulting in privilege escalation. This issue affect…

High

CVE-2024-0259

Fortra's Robot Schedule Enterprise Agent for Windows prior to version 3.04 is susceptible to privilege escalation. A low-privileged user can overwrite the service executable. When the service is rest…

2024-03-26
Medium

CVE-2024-25958

Dell Grab for Windows, versions up to and including 5.0.4, contain Weak Application Folder Permissions vulnerability. A local authenticated attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, lead…

High

CVE-2024-23482

The ZScaler service is susceptible to a local privilege escalation vulnerability found in the ZScalerService process. Fixed Version: Mac ZApp 4.2.0.241 and later.

2024-03-24
High

CVE-2024-29187

WiX toolset lets developers create installers for Windows Installer, the Windows installation engine. When a bundle runs as SYSTEM user, Burn uses GetTempPathW which points to an insecure directory C…

2024-03-22
High

CVE-2023-41099

In the Windows installer in Atos Eviden CardOS API before 5.5.5.2811, Local Privilege Escalation can occur.(from a regular user to SYSTEM).

2024-03-21
Medium

CVE-2023-42954

A privilege escalation issue existed in FileMaker Server, potentially exposing sensitive information to front-end websites when signed in to the Admin Console with an administrator role. This issue h…

High

CVE-2024-28916

Xbox Gaming Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

2024-03-20
High

CVE-2024-22078

An issue was discovered in Elspec G5 digital fault recorder versions 1.1.4.15 and before. Privilege escalation can occur via world writable files. The network configuration script has weak filesystem…

2024-03-15
Medium

CVE-2024-28851

The Snowflake Hive metastore connector provides an easy way to query Hive-managed data via Snowflake. Snowflake Hive MetaStore Connector has addressed a potential elevation of privilege vulnerability…

2024-03-13
Medium

CVE-2024-2432

A privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect app on Windows devices enables a local user to execute programs with elevated privileges. However, execution requires…

Critical

CVE-2024-2172

The Malware Scanner plugin and the Web Application Firewall plugin for WordPress (both by MiniOrange) are vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the mo_wpns_init() fu…

High

CVE-2024-1505

The Academy LMS – eLearning and online course solution for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.19. This is due to plugin all…

2024-03-12
High

CVE-2024-1138

The FTL Server component of TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO FTL - Enterprise Edition contains a vulnerability that allows a low privileged attacker with network access to execute a privilege escalation o…

High

CVE-2024-26203

Azure Data Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Medium

CVE-2024-26201

Microsoft Intune Linux Agent Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-26199

Microsoft Office Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-26182

Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-26178

Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-26176

Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-26173

Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-26170

Windows Composite Image File System (CimFS) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-26169

Windows Error Reporting Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-26165

Visual Studio Code Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21446

NTFS Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21445

Windows USB Print Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21443

Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21442

Windows USB Print Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21439

Windows Telephony Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21437

Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21436

Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21434

Microsoft Windows SCSI Class System File Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21433

Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21432

Windows Update Stack Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21418

Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Critical

CVE-2024-21400

Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service Confidential Container Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21390

Microsoft Authenticator Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21330

Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-25999

An unauthenticated local attacker can perform a privilege escalation due to improper input validation in the OCPP agent service.

2024-03-11
High

CVE-2024-0670

Privilege escalation in windows agent plugin in Checkmk before 2.2.0p23, 2.1.0p40 and 2.0.0 (EOL) allows local user to escalate privileges

2024-03-08
High

CVE-2024-2338

PostgreSQL Anonymizer v1.2 contains a SQL injection vulnerability that allows a user who owns a table to elevate to superuser when dynamic masking is enabled. PostgreSQL Anonymizer enables users to s…

2024-03-07
High

CVE-2024-28115

FreeRTOS is a real-time operating system for microcontrollers. FreeRTOS Kernel versions through 10.6.1 do not sufficiently protect against local privilege escalation via Return Oriented Programming t…

Medium

CVE-2024-1299

A privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in GitLab affecting versions 16.8 prior to 16.8.4 and 16.9 prior to 16.9.2. It was possible for a user with custom role of `manage_group_access_tok…

2024-03-06
Critical

CVE-2024-2005

In Blue Planet® products through 22.12, a misconfiguration in the SAML implementation allows for privilege escalation. Only products using SAML authentication are affected. Blue Planet® has release…

2024-03-04
High

CVE-2024-22452

Dell Display and Peripheral Manager for macOS prior to 1.3 contains an improper access control vulnerability. A low privilege user could potentially exploit this vulnerability by modifying files in t…

High

CVE-2024-0156

Dell Digital Delivery, versions prior to 5.2.0.0, contain a Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. A local low privileged attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to arbitrary code exec…

2024-02-29
High

CVE-2023-6132

The vulnerability, if exploited, could allow a malicious entity with access to the file system to achieve arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation by tricking AVEVA Edge to load an unsafe DL…

High

CVE-2024-1470

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in NetIQ (OpenText) Client Login Extension on Windows allows Privilege Escalation, Code Injection.This issue only affects NetIQ Clie…

2024-02-28
Medium

CVE-2023-6917

A vulnerability has been identified in the Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) package, stemming from the mixed privilege levels utilized by systemd services associated with PCP. While certain services operat…

2024-02-27
Medium

CVE-2023-50380

XML External Entity injection in apache ambari versions <= 2.7.7, Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.7.8, which fixes this issue. More Details: Oozie Workflow Scheduler had a vulnerabili…

High

CVE-2024-25723

ZenML Server in the ZenML machine learning package before 0.46.7 for Python allows remote privilege escalation because the /api/v1/users/{user_name_or_id}/activate REST API endpoint allows access on…

Critical

CVE-2023-51518

Apache James prior to version 3.7.5 and 3.8.0 exposes a JMX endpoint on localhost subject to pre-authentication deserialisation of untrusted data. Given a deserialisation gadjet, this could be levera…

2024-02-26
Medium

CVE-2024-0798

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in mintplex-labs/anything-llm, allowing users with 'default' role to delete documents uploaded by 'admin'. Despite the intended restriction that prevents '…

2024-02-22
Medium

CVE-2023-6477

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 16.5 before 16.7.6, all versions starting from 16.8 before 16.8.3, all versions starting from 16.9 before 16.9.1. When a…

2024-02-21
High

CVE-2023-42942

This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks. This issue is fixed in watchOS 10.1, macOS Sonoma 14.1, tvOS 17.1, iOS 16.7.2 and iPadOS 16.7.2, iOS 17.1 and iPadOS 17.1, macOS Ventura 1…

Medium

CVE-2024-22235

VMware Aria Operations contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with administrative access to the local system can escalate privileges to 'root'.

2024-02-16
Critical

CVE-2024-21915

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk® Service Platform (FTSP). If exploited, a malicious user with basic user group privileges could potentially sign into th…

2024-02-15
High

CVE-2024-0622

Local privilege escalation vulnerability affects OpenText Operations Agent product versions 12.15 and 12.20-12.25 when installed on Non-Windows platforms. The vulnerability could allow local privileg…

High

CVE-2024-0353

Local privilege escalation vulnerability potentially allowed an attacker to misuse ESET’s file operations to delete files without having proper permission.

High

CVE-2022-23086

Handlers for *_CFG_PAGE read / write ioctls in the mpr, mps, and mpt drivers allocated a buffer of a caller-specified size, but copied to it a fixed size header. Other heap content would be overwrit…

High

CVE-2024-26262

EBM Technologies Uniweb/SoliPACS WebServer's query functionality lacks proper restrictions of user input, allowing remote attackers authenticated as regular user to inject SQL commands for reading, m…

High

CVE-2024-1523

EC-WEB FS-EZViewer(Web)'s query functionality lacks proper restrictions of user input, allowing remote attackers authenticated as regular user to inject SQL commands for reading, modifying, and delet…

2024-02-14
High

CVE-2023-5123

The JSON datasource plugin ( https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/marcusolsson-json-datasource/ ) is a Grafana Labs maintained plugin for Grafana that allows for retrieving and processing JSON data fr…

High

CVE-2023-44283

In Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs (between v3.0 and v3.14.1) and SupportAssist for Business PCs (between v3.0 and v3.4.1), a security concern has been identified, impacting locally authenticated use…

High

CVE-2023-25535

Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs Installer Executable file version prior to 3.13.2.19 used for initial installation has a high vulnerability that can result in local privilege escalation (LPE). This v…

2024-02-13
High

CVE-2021-46757

Insufficient checking of memory buffer in ASP Secure OS may allow an attacker with a malicious TA to read/write to the ASP Secure OS kernel virtual address space potentially leading to privilege esca…

Critical

CVE-2024-21410

Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21405

Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Critical

CVE-2024-21403

Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service Confidential Container Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21402

Microsoft Outlook Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Critical

CVE-2024-21401

Microsoft Entra Jira Single-Sign-On Plugin Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Medium

CVE-2024-21397

Microsoft Azure File Sync Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21371

Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Critical

CVE-2024-21364

Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21355

Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21354

Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21346

Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21345

Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21338

Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21329

Azure Connected Machine Agent Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-21315

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Protection Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Medium

CVE-2024-21304

Trusted Compute Base Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2024-22042

A vulnerability has been identified in Unicam FX (All versions). The windows installer agent used in affected product contains incorrect use of privileged APIs that trigger the Windows Console Host (…

2024-02-12
Medium

CVE-2024-1250

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 16.8 before 16.8.2. When a user is assigned a custom role with manage_group_access_tokens permission, they may be able t…

2024-02-11
Critical

CVE-2024-23724

Ghost through 5.76.0 allows stored XSS, and resultant privilege escalation in which a contributor can take over any account, via an SVG profile picture that contains JavaScript code to interact with…

2024-02-09
High

CVE-2024-0229

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the X.Org server. This issue can be triggered when a device frozen by a sync grab is reattached to a different master device. This issue may lead to a…

High

CVE-2024-24821

Composer is a dependency Manager for the PHP language. In affected versions several files within the local working directory are included during the invocation of Composer and in the context of the e…

2024-02-08
Critical

CVE-2024-24830

OpenObserve is a observability platform built specifically for logs, metrics, traces, analytics, designed to work at petabyte scale. A vulnerability has been identified in the "/api/{org_id}/users" e…

High

CVE-2023-27001

An issue discovered in Egerie Risk Manager v4.0.5 allows attackers to bypass the signature mechanism and tamper with the values inside the JWT payload resulting in privilege escalation.

Medium

CVE-2024-23764

Certain WithSecure products allow Local Privilege Escalation. This affects WithSecure Client Security 15 and later, WithSecure Server Security 15 and later, WithSecure Email and Server Security 15 an…

2024-02-06
Medium

CVE-2024-22239

Aria Operations for Networks contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A console user with access to Aria Operations for Networks may exploit this vulnerability to escalate privileges to g…

High

CVE-2024-22237

Aria Operations for Networks contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A console user with access to Aria Operations for Networks may exploit this vulnerability to escalate privileges to g…

Medium

CVE-2023-32479

Dell Encryption, Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise, and Dell Security Management Server versions prior to 11.9.0 contain privilege escalation vulnerability due to improper ACL of the non-defaul…

2024-02-02
High

CVE-2024-23831

LedgerSMB is a free web-based double-entry accounting system. When a LedgerSMB database administrator has an active session in /setup.pl, an attacker can trick the admin into clicking on a link which…

High

CVE-2024-1201

Search path or unquoted item vulnerability in HDD Health affecting versions 4.2.0.112 and earlier. This vulnerability could allow a local attacker to store a malicious executable file within the unqu…

High

CVE-2020-24681

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in B&R Industrial Automation Automation Studio allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects Automation Studio: from 4.6.0 through…

High

CVE-2024-22016

In Rapid Software LLC's Rapid SCADA versions prior to Version 5.8.4, an authorized user can write directly to the Scada directory. This may allow privilege escalation.

2024-01-31
High

CVE-2024-21888

A privilege escalation vulnerability in web component of Ivanti Connect Secure (9.x, 22.x) and Ivanti Policy Secure (9.x, 22.x) allows a user to elevate privileges to that of an administrator.

High

CVE-2023-6246

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the __vsyslog_internal function of the glibc library. This function is called by the syslog and vsyslog functions. This issue occurs when the openlog functio…

High

CVE-2024-1086

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's netfilter: nf_tables component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. The nft_verdict_init() function allows positive values as…

High

CVE-2024-1085

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's netfilter: nf_tables component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. The nft_setelem_catchall_deactivate() function checks whet…