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
2020-08-17
High

CVE-2020-1529

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could r…

High

CVE-2020-1528

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Radio Manager API improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victi…

High

CVE-2020-1527

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Custom Protocol Engine improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the…

High

CVE-2020-1526

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Network Connection Broker improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on t…

High

CVE-2020-1524

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Speech Shell Components improperly handle memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the…

High

CVE-2020-1522

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Speech Runtime improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim s…

High

CVE-2020-1521

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Speech Runtime improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim s…

High

CVE-2020-1519

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows UPnP Device Host improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim…

High

CVE-2020-1518

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows File Server Resource Management Service improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain…

High

CVE-2020-1517

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows File Server Resource Management Service improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain…

High

CVE-2020-1516

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Work Folders Service improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the vi…

High

CVE-2020-1515

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Telephony Server improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim…

High

CVE-2020-1513

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows CSC Service improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim syst…

High

CVE-2020-1511

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service improperly handles file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability coul…

High

CVE-2020-1509

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) when an authenticated attacker sends a specially crafted authentication request. A remote atta…

High

CVE-2020-1490

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Storage Service improperly handles file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain elevated privileges on…

High

CVE-2020-1489

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows CSC Service improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim syst…

High

CVE-2020-1488

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows AppX Deployment Extensions improperly performs privilege management, resulting in access to system files. To exploit this vulnerability…

High

CVE-2020-1486

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code i…

High

CVE-2020-1484

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Work Folders Service improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the vi…

High

CVE-2020-1480

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could r…

High

CVE-2020-1479

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when DirectX improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An…

Medium

CVE-2020-1476

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when ASP.NET or .NET web applications running on IIS improperly allow access to cached files. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability…

High

CVE-2020-1475

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the srmsvc.dll handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code with elevated perm…

Medium

CVE-2020-1472

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when an attacker establishes a vulnerable Netlogon secure channel connection to a domain controller, using the Netlogon Remote Protocol (MS-NRPC). An at…

High

CVE-2020-1470

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Work Folders Service improperly handles memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the vi…

Critical

CVE-2020-1467

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles hard links. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could overwrite a targeted file leading to an elev…

Medium

CVE-2020-1417

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code i…

High

CVE-2020-1378

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Kernel API improperly handles registry objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain elevated…

High

CVE-2020-1377

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Kernel API improperly handles registry objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain elevated…

High

CVE-2020-1337

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Print Spooler service improperly allows arbitrary writing to the file system. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability…

2020-08-14
High

CVE-2020-22722

Rapid Software LLC Rapid SCADA 5.8.0 is affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the ScadaAgentSvc.exe executable file. An attacker can obtain admin privileges by placing a malicious…

2020-08-13
Medium

CVE-2020-7305

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) ePO extension prior to 11.5.3 allows a low privileged remote attacker to create new rule sets via incorrect validation of user…

2020-08-12
Critical

CVE-2020-16137

A privilege escalation issue in Cisco Unified IP Conference Station 7937G 1-4-4-0 through 1-4-5-7 allows attackers to reset the credentials for the SSH administrative console to arbitrary values. Not…

2020-08-11
Critical

CVE-2020-11552

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus before build 6003 because it does not properly enforce user privileges associated with a Certificate dialog. This vul…

High

CVE-2020-10783

Red Hat CloudForms 4.7 and 5 is affected by a role-based privilege escalation flaw. An attacker with EVM-Operator group can perform actions restricted only to EVM-Super-administrator group, leads to,…

2020-08-10
High

CVE-2020-9078

FusionCompute 8.0.0 have local privilege escalation vulnerability. A local, authenticated attacker could perform specific operations to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploitation may cause t…

Critical

CVE-2020-9529

Firmware developed by Shenzhen Hichip Vision Technology (V6 through V20), as used by many different vendors in millions of Internet of Things devices, suffers from a privilege escalation vulnerabilit…

2020-08-08
High

CVE-2020-15824

In JetBrains Kotlin from 1.4-M1 to 1.4-RC (as Kotlin 1.3.7x is not affected by the issue. Fixed version is 1.4.0) there is a script-cache privilege escalation vulnerability due to kotlin-main-kts cac…

2020-08-04
High

CVE-2020-5617

Privilege escalation vulnerability in SKYSEA Client View Ver.12.200.12n to 15.210.05f allows an attacker to obtain unauthorized privileges and modify/obtain sensitive information or perform unintende…

2020-08-03
High

CVE-2020-5772

Improper Input Validation in Teltonika firmware TRB2_R_00.02.04.01 allows a remote, authenticated attacker to gain root privileges by uploading a malicious package file.

High

CVE-2020-5771

Improper Input Validation in Teltonika firmware TRB2_R_00.02.04.01 allows a remote, authenticated attacker to gain root privileges by uploading a malicious backup archive.

2020-07-31
Medium

CVE-2020-9248

Huawei FusionComput 8.0.0 have an improper authorization vulnerability. A module does not verify some input correctly and authorizes files with incorrect access. Attackers can exploit this vulnerabil…

2020-07-29
High

CVE-2019-20029

An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the WebPro functionality of Aspire-derived NEC PBXes, including all versions of SV8100, SV9100, SL1100 and SL2100 devices. A specially craf…

High

CVE-2020-15098

In TYPO3 CMS greater than or equal to 9.0.0 and less than 9.5.20, and greater than or equal to 10.0.0 and less than 10.4.6, it has been discovered that an internal verification mechanism can be used…

2020-07-27
High

CVE-2020-15592

SteelCentral Aternity Agent before 11.0.0.120 on Windows allows Privilege Escalation via a crafted file. It uses an executable running as a high privileged Windows service to perform administrative t…

2020-07-24
High

CVE-2020-8207

Improper access control in Citrix Workspace app for Windows 1912 CU1 and 2006.1 causes privilege escalation and code execution when the automatic updater service is running.

High

CVE-2020-15932

Overwolf before 0.149.2.30 mishandles Symbolic Links during updates, causing elevation of privileges.

2020-07-21
High

CVE-2020-15724

In the version 12.1.0.1005 and below of 360 Total Security, when the Gamefolde calls GameChrome.exe, there exists a local privilege escalation vulnerability. An attacker who could exploit DLL hijacki…

High

CVE-2020-15723

In the version 12.1.0.1004 and below of 360 Total Security, when the main process of 360 Total Security calls GameChrome.exe, there exists a local privilege escalation vulnerability. An attacker who…

High

CVE-2020-15722

In version 12.1.0.1004 and below of 360 Total Security,when TPI calls the browser process, there exists a local privilege escalation vulnerability. An attacker who could exploit DLL hijacking could e…

Critical

CVE-2016-7063

A flaw was found in pritunl-client before version 1.0.1116.6. Arbitrary write to user specified path may lead to privilege escalation.

2020-07-20
Medium

CVE-2020-15118

In Wagtail before versions 2.7.4 and 2.9.3, when a form page type is made available to Wagtail editors through the `wagtail.contrib.forms` app, and the page template is built using Django's standard…

2020-07-17
High

CVE-2020-9673

Adobe ColdFusion 2016 update 15 and earlier versions, and ColdFusion 2018 update 9 and earlier versions have a dll search-order hijacking vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to privileg…

High

CVE-2020-9672

Adobe ColdFusion 2016 update 15 and earlier versions, and ColdFusion 2018 update 9 and earlier versions have a dll search-order hijacking vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to privileg…

Critical

CVE-2020-9671

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application versions 5.1 and earlier have an insecure file permissions vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to privilege escalation.

Critical

CVE-2020-9670

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application versions 5.1 and earlier have a symlink vulnerability vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to privilege escalation.

Critical

CVE-2020-9669

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application versions 5.1 and earlier have a lack of exploit mitigations vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to privilege escalation.

2020-07-15
High

CVE-2020-2228

Jenkins Gitlab Authentication Plugin 1.5 and earlier does not perform group authorization checks properly, resulting in a privilege escalation vulnerability.

2020-07-14
High

CVE-2020-1465

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft OneDrive that allows file deletion in arbitrary locations.To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the syste…

High

CVE-2020-1463

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the SharedStream Library handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows SharedStream Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

High

CVE-2020-1461

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the MpSigStub.exe for Defender allows file deletion in arbitrary locations.To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to…

High

CVE-2020-1438

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Network Connections Service handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Network Connections Service Elevation of Privilege Vulne…

High

CVE-2020-1437

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Network Location Awareness Service handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Network Location Awareness Service Elevation of P…

Medium

CVE-2020-1434

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Sync Host Service handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Sync Host Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

High

CVE-2020-1431

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows AppX Deployment Extensions improperly performs privilege management, resulting in access to system files.To exploit this vulnerability,…

High

CVE-2020-1430

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows UPnP Device Host improperly handles memory.To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim…

High

CVE-2020-1429

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows Error Reporting manager improperly handles a process crash, aka 'Windows Error Reporting Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

High

CVE-2020-1428

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Network Connections Service handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Network Connections Service Elevation of Privilege Vulne…

High

CVE-2020-1427

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Network Connections Service handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Network Connections Service Elevation of Privilege Vulne…

High

CVE-2020-1424

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Update Stack fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka 'Windows Update Stack Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

High

CVE-2020-1423

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Subsystem for Linux handles files, aka 'Windows Subsystem for Linux Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

High

CVE-2020-1422

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Runtime improperly handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Runtime Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CV…

High

CVE-2020-1418

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Diagnostics Execution Service fails to properly sanitize input, leading to an unsecure library-loading behavior, aka 'Windows Diagnosti…

High

CVE-2020-1416

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code when they load software dependencies, aka 'Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabi…

High

CVE-2020-1415

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Runtime improperly handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Runtime Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CV…

High

CVE-2020-1414

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Runtime improperly handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Runtime Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CV…

High

CVE-2020-1413

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Runtime improperly handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Runtime Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CV…

High

CVE-2020-1411

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka 'Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique fro…

High

CVE-2020-1406

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Network List Service handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Network List Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

High

CVE-2020-1405

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows Mobile Device Management (MDM) Diagnostics improperly handles junctions, aka 'Windows Mobile Device Management Diagnostics Elevation of Pri…

High

CVE-2020-1404

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Runtime improperly handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Runtime Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CV…

High

CVE-2020-1402

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows ActiveX Installer Service improperly handles memory.To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on th…

High

CVE-2020-1399

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Runtime improperly handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Runtime Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CV…

Medium

CVE-2020-1398

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows Lockscreen fails to properly handle Ease of Access dialog.An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute commands w…

High

CVE-2020-1396

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles calls to Advanced Local Procedure Call (ALPC).An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitr…

High

CVE-2020-1395

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Speech Brokered API handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique fro…

High

CVE-2020-1394

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Geolocation Framework handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique f…

High

CVE-2020-1393

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service fails to properly sanitize input, leading to an unsecure library-loading behavior, aka 'Wind…

High

CVE-2020-1392

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Delivery Optimization service improperly handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is…

High

CVE-2020-1390

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Network Connections Service handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Network Connections Service Elevation of Privilege Vulne…

High

CVE-2020-1388

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the psmsrv.dll handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-1392,…

High

CVE-2020-1387

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way the Windows Push Notification Service handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Push Notification Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

High

CVE-2020-1385

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Credential Picker handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Credential Picker Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

High

CVE-2020-1384

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Cryptography Next Generation (CNG) Key Isolation service improperly handles memory, aka 'Windows CNG Key Isolation Service Elevation of…

High

CVE-2020-1382

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Graphics Component improperly handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CV…

High

CVE-2020-1381

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Graphics Component improperly handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CV…

High

CVE-2020-1375

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles COM object creation, aka 'Windows COM Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

High

CVE-2020-1373

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Network Connections Service handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Network Connections Service Elevation of Privilege Vulne…

High

CVE-2020-1372

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows Mobile Device Management (MDM) Diagnostics improperly handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Mobile Device Management Diagnostics Elevatio…

High

CVE-2020-1371

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Event Logging Service improperly handles memory.To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the vi…

High

CVE-2020-1370

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Runtime improperly handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Runtime Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CV…

High

CVE-2020-1369

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows WalletService handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows WalletService Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is un…

High

CVE-2020-1368

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Credential Enrollment Manager service handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Credential Enrollment Manager Service Elevation of Pri…

High

CVE-2020-1366

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Print Workflow Service improperly handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Print Workflow Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

High

CVE-2020-1365

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Event Logging Service improperly handles memory.To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the vi…

High

CVE-2020-1363

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Picker Platform improperly handles memory.To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim s…

High

CVE-2020-1362

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows WalletService handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows WalletService Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is un…

High

CVE-2020-1360

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Profile Service improperly handles file operations, aka 'Windows Profile Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

High

CVE-2020-1359

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Cryptography Next Generation (CNG) Key Isolation service improperly handles memory, aka 'Windows CNG Key Isolation Service Elevation of…

High

CVE-2020-1357

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows System Events Broker improperly handles file operations, aka 'Windows System Events Broker Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

High

CVE-2020-1356

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows iSCSI Target Service improperly handles file operations, aka 'Windows iSCSI Target Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

High

CVE-2020-1354

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows UPnP Device Host improperly handles memory.To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim…

High

CVE-2020-1353

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Runtime improperly handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Runtime Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CV…

High

CVE-2020-1352

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows USO Core Worker improperly handles memory.To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim s…

High

CVE-2020-1347

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Storage Services improperly handle file operations, aka 'Windows Storage Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

High

CVE-2020-1346

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Modules Installer improperly handles file operations, aka 'Windows Modules Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

High

CVE-2020-1344

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows WalletService handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows WalletService Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is un…

High

CVE-2020-1336

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Kernel handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code with elevated…

Medium

CVE-2020-1333

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Group Policy Services Policy Processing improperly handle reparse points, aka 'Group Policy Services Policy Processing Elevation of Privilege Vulne…