About “Privilege Escalation”

A curated feed of “Privilege Escalation”-related CVEs appears below. We currently track 7823 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
2023-01-10
High

CVE-2023-21724

Microsoft DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2023-21680

Windows Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2023-21678

Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2023-21675

Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2023-21674

Windows Advanced Local Procedure Call (ALPC) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2023-21561

Microsoft Cryptographic Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2023-21558

Windows Error Reporting Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2023-21552

Windows GDI Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2023-21551

Microsoft Cryptographic Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2023-21549

Windows SMB Witness Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2023-21542

Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2023-21541

Windows Task Scheduler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2023-21537

Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2023-21532

Windows GDI Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2023-21531

Azure Service Fabric Container Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2023-21524

Windows Local Security Authority (LSA) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-4294

Norton, Avira, Avast and AVG Antivirus for Windows may be susceptible to a Privilege Escalation vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an attacker may attempt to compromise the software appl…

2023-01-09
High

CVE-2022-36930

Zoom Rooms for Windows installers before version 5.13.0 contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A local low-privileged user could exploit this vulnerability in an attack chain to escalate…

High

CVE-2022-36929

The Zoom Rooms Installer for Windows prior to 5.12.6 contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A local low-privileged user could exploit this vulnerability during the install process to es…

High

CVE-2022-36927

Zoom Rooms for macOS clients before version 5.11.3 contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A local low-privileged user could exploit this vulnerability to escalate their privileges to roo…

High

CVE-2022-36926

Zoom Rooms for macOS clients before version 5.11.3 contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A local low-privileged user could exploit this vulnerability to escalate their privileges to roo…

2023-01-08
Medium

CVE-2022-0668

JFrog Artifactory prior to 7.37.13 is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass, which can lead to Privilege Escalation when a specially crafted request is sent by an unauthenticated user.

2023-01-01
Critical

CVE-2022-34322

Multiple XSS issues were discovered in Sage Enterprise Intelligence 2021 R1.1 that allow an attacker to execute JavaScript code in the context of users' browsers. The attacker needs to be authenticat…

2022-12-24
High

CVE-2022-46175

JSON5 is an extension to the popular JSON file format that aims to be easier to write and maintain by hand (e.g. for config files). The `parse` method of the JSON5 library before and including versio…

2022-12-22
High

CVE-2022-22736

If Firefox was installed to a world-writable directory, a local privilege escalation could occur when Firefox searched the current directory for system libraries. However the install directory is not…

2022-12-21
High

CVE-2022-38065

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the oslo.privsep functionality of OpenStack git master 05194e7618 and prior. Overly permissive functionality within tools leveraging this library within…

High

CVE-2022-38060

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the sudo functionality of OpenStack Kolla git master 05194e7618. A misconfiguration in /etc/sudoers within a container can lead to increased privileges.

2022-12-20
High

CVE-2022-42046

wfshbr64.sys and wfshbr32.sys specially crafted IOCTL allows arbitrary user to perform local privilege escalation

Critical

CVE-2022-46327

Some smartphones have configuration issues. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause privilege escalation, which results in system service exceptions.

2022-12-16
Medium

CVE-2022-26579

PAX A930 device with PayDroid_7.1.1_Virgo_V04.3.26T1_20210419 can allow a root privileged attacker to install unsigned packages. The attacker must have shell access to the device and gain root privil…

High

CVE-2022-42534

In trusty_ffa_mem_reclaim of shared-mem-smcall.c, there is a possible privilege escalation due to improper input validation. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execut…

High

CVE-2022-31707

vRealize Operations (vROps) contains a privilege escalation vulnerability. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Important severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 7.…

High

CVE-2022-20598

In sec_media_protect of media.c, there is a possible EoP due to an integer overflow. This could lead to local escalation of privilege of secure mode MFC Core with no additional execution privileges n…

High

CVE-2022-20597

In ppmpu_set of ppmpu.c, there is a possible EoP due to an integer overflow. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not n…

Medium

CVE-2022-20588

In sysmmu_map of sysmmu.c, there is a possible EoP due to a precondition check failure. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is n…

High

CVE-2022-20587

In ppmp_validate_wsm of drm_fw.c, there is a possible EoP due to improper input validation. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User inter…

High

CVE-2022-20586

In valid_out_of_special_sec_dram_addr of drm_access_control.c, there is a possible EoP due to improper input validation. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution…

High

CVE-2022-20585

In valid_out_of_special_sec_dram_addr of drm_access_control.c, there is a possible EoP due to improper input validation. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution…

2022-12-13
High

CVE-2022-44710

DirectX Graphics Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-44708

Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-44704

Microsoft Windows System Monitor (Sysmon) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-44697

Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-44689

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-44683

Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-44681

Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-44680

Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-44678

Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-44677

Windows Projected File System Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-44675

Windows Bluetooth Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-44673

Windows Client Server Run-time Subsystem (CSRSS) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-44671

Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-44669

Windows Error Reporting Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-41121

Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Medium

CVE-2022-41115

Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Update Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-41094

Windows Hyper-V Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-41077

Windows Fax Compose Form Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Medium

CVE-2022-24480

Outlook for Android Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2021-32415

EXEMSI MSI Wrapper Versions prior to 10.0.50 and at least since version 6.0.91 will introduce a local privilege escalation vulnerability in installers it creates.

2022-12-12
High

CVE-2022-23511

A privilege escalation issue exists within the Amazon CloudWatch Agent for Windows, software for collecting metrics and logs from Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises servers, in versions up to and i…

High

CVE-2022-3641

Elevation of privilege in the Azure SQL Data Source in Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager 2022.3.13 to 2022.3.24 allows an authenticated user to spoof a privileged account.

2022-12-08
Medium

CVE-2022-41948

DHIS 2 is an open source information system for data capture, management, validation, analytics and visualization. Affected versions are subject to a privilege escalation vulnerability. A DHIS2 user…

2022-12-06
Critical

CVE-2022-42888

Unauth. Privilege Escalation vulnerability in ARMember premium plugin <= 5.5.1 on WordPress.

2022-12-05
Critical

CVE-2022-27773

A privilege escalation vulnerability is identified in Ivanti EPM (LANDesk Management Suite) that allows a user to execute commands with elevated privileges.

2022-12-04
Critical

CVE-2022-35508

Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE) and Proxmox Mail Gateway (PMG) are vulnerable to SSRF when proxying HTTP requests between pve(pmg)proxy and pve(pmg)daemon. An attacker with an unprivileged account…

2022-12-02
High

CVE-2022-46167

Capsule is a multi-tenancy and policy-based framework for Kubernetes. Prior to version 0.1.3, a ServiceAccount deployed in a Tenant Namespace, when granted with `PATCH` capabilities on its own Namesp…

2022-12-01
Medium

CVE-2022-3709

A stored XSS vulnerability allows admin to super-admin privilege escalation in the Webadmin import group wizard of Sophos Firewall releases older than version 19.5 GA.

Critical

CVE-2022-37016

Symantec Endpoint Protection (Windows) agent may be susceptible to a Privilege Escalation vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an attacker may attempt to compromise the software applicatio…

2022-11-29
High

CVE-2022-46152

OP-TEE Trusted OS is the secure side implementation of OP-TEE project, a Trusted Execution Environment. Versions prior to 3.19.0, contain an Improper Validation of Array Index vulnerability. The func…

2022-11-28
High

CVE-2022-3088

UC-8100A-ME-T System Image: Versions v1.0 to v1.6, UC-2100 System Image: Versions v1.0 to v1.12, UC-2100-W System Image: Versions v1.0 to v 1.12,&nbsp;UC-3100 System Image: Versions v1.0 to v1.6,&nbs…

2022-11-25
Critical

CVE-2022-37721

PyroCMS 3.9 is vulnerable to a stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS_ when a low privileged user such as an author, injects a crafted html and javascript payload in a blog post, leading to full admin acco…

Critical

CVE-2022-37720

Orchardproject Orchard CMS 1.10.3 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS). When a low privileged user such as an author or publisher, injects a crafted html and javascript payload in a blog post,…

2022-11-23
Critical

CVE-2022-41923

Grails Spring Security Core plugin is vulnerable to privilege escalation. The vulnerability allows an attacker access to one endpoint (i.e. the targeted endpoint) using the authorization requirements…

2022-11-22
Medium

CVE-2022-41950

super-xray is the GUI alternative for vulnerability scanning tool xray. In 0.2-beta, a privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered. This caused inaccurate default xray permissions. Note: this v…

High

CVE-2022-3910

Use After Free vulnerability in Linux Kernel allows Privilege Escalation. An improper Update of Reference Count in io_uring leads to Use-After-Free and Local Privilege Escalation. When io_msg_ring wa…

2022-11-21
High

CVE-2022-45422

When LG SmartShare is installed, local privilege escalation is possible through DLL Hijacking attack. The LG ID is LVE-HOT-220005.

2022-11-17
Medium

CVE-2022-45069

Auth. (contributor+) Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Crowdsignal Dashboard plugin <= 3.0.9 on WordPress.

High

CVE-2022-36924

The Zoom Rooms Installer for Windows prior to 5.12.6 contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A local low-privileged user could exploit this vulnerability during the install process to es…

High

CVE-2022-28768

The Zoom Client for Meetings Installer for macOS (Standard and for IT Admin) before version 5.12.6 contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A local low-privileged user could exploit this…

2022-11-12
High

CVE-2022-41339

In Zoho ManageEngine Mobile Device Manager Plus before 10.1.2207.5, the User Administration module allows privilege escalation.

High

CVE-2022-40773

Zoho ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus MSP before 10609 and SupportCenter Plus before 11025 are vulnerable to privilege escalation. This allows users to obtain sensitive data during an exportMickeyList e…

Medium

CVE-2022-45193

CBRN-Analysis before 22 has weak file permissions under Public Profile, leading to disclosure of file contents or privilege escalation.

2022-11-10
High

CVE-2022-3703

All versions of ETIC Telecom Remote Access Server (RAS) 4.5.0 and prior’s web portal is vulnerable to accepting malicious firmware packages that could provide a backdoor to an attacker and provide pr…

2022-11-09
High

CVE-2022-41125

Windows CNG Key Isolation Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-41123

Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-41120

Microsoft Windows System Monitor (Sysmon) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-41114

Windows Bind Filter Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-41113

Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-41109

Windows Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-41102

Windows Overlay Filter Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-41101

Windows Overlay Filter Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-41100

Windows Advanced Local Procedure Call (ALPC) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-41096

Microsoft DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-41095

Windows Digital Media Receiver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-41093

Windows Advanced Local Procedure Call (ALPC) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-41092

Windows Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Medium

CVE-2022-41086

Windows Group Policy Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-41085

Azure CycleCloud Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-41080

Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-41073

Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-41057

Windows HTTP.sys Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-41054

Windows Resilient File System (ReFS) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-41050

Windows Extensible File Allocation Table Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-41045

Windows Advanced Local Procedure Call (ALPC) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-38023

Netlogon RPC Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-38014

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-37992

Windows Group Policy Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-37967

Windows Kerberos Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High

CVE-2022-37966

Windows Kerberos RC4-HMAC Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Critical

CVE-2022-44562

The system framework layer has a vulnerability of serialization/deserialization mismatch. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause privilege escalation.

Critical

CVE-2022-44559

The AMS module has a vulnerability of serialization/deserialization mismatch. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause privilege escalation.

Critical

CVE-2022-44558

The AMS module has a vulnerability of serialization/deserialization mismatch. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause privilege escalation.

Critical

CVE-2022-25932

The firmware of InHand Networks InRouter302 V3.5.45 introduces fixes for TALOS-2022-1472 and TALOS-2022-1474. The fixes are incomplete. An attacker can still perform, respectively, a privilege escala…

Medium

CVE-2022-0031

A local privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR engine software running on a Linux operating system allows a local attacker with shell access to the engine to e…

2022-11-08
Critical

CVE-2022-37015

Symantec Endpoint Detection and Response (SEDR) Appliance, prior to 4.7.0, may be susceptible to a privilege escalation vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an attacker may attempt to comp…

2022-11-07
High

CVE-2022-44747

Local privilege escalation due to improper soft link handling. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office (Windows) before build 40107.

High

CVE-2022-44744

Local privilege escalation due to DLL hijacking vulnerability. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office (Windows) before build 40107.

High

CVE-2022-44733

Local privilege escalation due to insecure folder permissions. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office (Windows) before build 39900.

High

CVE-2022-44732

Local privilege escalation due to insecure folder permissions. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office (Windows) before build 39900.

Medium

CVE-2022-2188

Privilege escalation vulnerability in DXL Broker for Windows prior to 6.0.0.280 allows local users to gain elevated privileges by exploiting weak directory controls in the logs directory. This can le…

High

CVE-2022-42919

Python 3.9.x before 3.9.16 and 3.10.x before 3.10.9 on Linux allows local privilege escalation in a non-default configuration. The Python multiprocessing library, when used with the forkserver start…