CAPEC-233
Privilege Escalation
An adversary exploits a weakness enabling them to elevate their privilege and perform an action that they are not supposed to be authorized to perform.
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Weaknesses it exploits
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
- CWE-1264 Hardware Logic with Insecure De-Synchronization between Control and Data Channels
- CWE-1311 Improper Translation of Security Attributes by Fabric Bridge
Recent CVEs with these weaknesses
- 8.6CVE-2026-112191
In Eclipse Kura versions 5.4.0 through 5.6.2, the Identity REST APIs (identity/v1, and identity/v2 since 5.5.0, provided by org.eclipse.kura.rest.identity.provider) do not check identity and permission management requests against the permi…
- 8.6CVE-2026-125382
Map-OS 5.0.0 to before 5.2.2 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in the REST users API that allows non-administrator operators holding the cUsuario permission to bypass permission-delegation and super-administrator protections. A…
- 8.6CVE-2026-125364
frab through 0.9.1 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows authenticated crew users to grant themselves orga roles by submitting unchecked nested conference_users_attributes. Attackers can abuse UsersController#update or …
- 8.6CVE-2026-125360
Storyden through 1.26.16 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows users holding MANAGE_ROLES to grant the ADMINISTRATOR permission without being administrators. Attackers can call AccountAddRole on another controlled accou…
- 7.3CVE-2026-84410
In apport before 2.37.0, an improper privilege management vulnerability allows an unprivileged local attacker to gain root privileges on systems where automatic crash reporting is enabled. The automatic crash report processing pipeline run…
- 8.8CVE-2026-123064
The WP BASE Booking of Appointments, Services and Events WordPress plugin before 6.5.1 does not properly restrict access to one of its user-creation actions, allowing authenticated users with Subscriber-level access and above to create a n…
- 7.2CVE-2026-121875
The Post Duplicator WordPress plugin before 3.0.18 does not validate the capabilities assigned to roles through its permissions settings, allowing a site administrator on a multisite network who is not a Super Admin to grant any role arbit…
- 5.5CVE-2026-124501
A weakness has been identified in Tidelift moto up to 5.2.4. Affected is an unknown function of the file moto/batch/models.py of the component AWS Batch Emulation. This manipulation of the argument privileged/volumes causes improper privil…
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