The product does not handle or incorrectly handles when it has insufficient privileges to perform an operation, leading to resultant weaknesses.
Volume of CVEs assigned to CWE-274 and their average CVSS base score over time.
Top CVEs that have been assigned this CWE. A single CVE can have multiple CWE assignments, though many have just one.
42 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2025-20156CRITICAL A vulnerability in the REST API of Cisco Meeting Management could allow a remote, authenticated attacker with low privileges to elevate privileges to administrator on an affected d | Jan 22, 2025 | 9.9 | 32 | NO | NO |
CVE-2022-0668CRITICAL 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 use | Jan 8, 2023 | 9.8 | 31 | NO | NO |
CVE-2026-62764MEDIUM Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges vulnerability in Apache Accumulo.
An authenticated, but low-privileged user without system permissions may
issue a remote command to gr | Jul 17, 2026 | 5.7 | 30 | NO | NO |
CVE-2025-29365CRITICAL spimsimulator spim v9.1.24 and before is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow in READ_STRING_SYSCALL. | Aug 22, 2025 | 9.8 | 30 | NO | NO |
CVE-2022-45101CRITICAL
Dell PowerScale OneFS 9.0.0.x - 9.4.0.x, contains an Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges vulnerability in NFS. A remote unauthenticated attacker could potentially exploit | Feb 1, 2023 | 9.8 | 30 | NO | NO |
CVE-2023-39375CRITICAL
SiberianCMS - CWE-274: Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges
| Sep 27, 2023 | 9.8 | 29 | NO | NO |
CVE-2024-0105HIGH NVIDIA ConnectX Firmware contains a vulnerability where an attacker may cause an improper handling of insufficient privileges issue. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may | Nov 1, 2024 | 8.9 | 27 | NO | NO |
CVE-2020-7283HIGH Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) before 16.0.R26 allows local users to create and edit files via symbolic link manipulation in a location they wo | Jul 3, 2020 | 8.8 | 27 | NO | NO |
CVE-2024-0106HIGH NVIDIA ConnectX Host Firmware for the BlueField Data Processing Unit (DPU) contains a vulnerability where an attacker may cause an improper handling of insufficient privileges issu | Nov 1, 2024 | 8.7 | 26 | NO | NO |
CVE-2020-7267HIGH Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) for Linux prior to 2.0.3 Hotfix 2635000 allows local users to delete files the user would otherwise not have | May 8, 2020 | 8.4 | 25 | NO | NO |
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