CWE-271 · Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors

12 CVEs classified under CWE-271 (Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors). Browse by severity and year.

Top CVEs for CWE-271
CVESeverityScorePublishedSummary
CVE-2026-44477Critical9.92026-05-28CloudNativePG is a platform designed to manage PostgreSQL databases within Kubernetes environments. Prior to 1.29.1 and 1.28.3, the CloudNativePG metrics expor…
CVE-2024-0985High8.02024-02-08Late privilege drop in REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW CONCURRENTLY in PostgreSQL allows an object creator to execute arbitrary SQL functions as the command issuer…
CVE-2023-22648High8.02023-06-01A Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE Rancher causes permission changes in Azure AD not to be reflected to users while they are logged in the…
CVE-2025-53819High7.92025-07-14Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems. Builds with Nix 2.30.0 on macOS were executed with elevated privileges (root), instead of the build…
CVE-2025-23395High7.82025-05-26Screen 5.0.0 when it runs with setuid-root privileges does not drop privileges while operating on a user supplied path. This allows unprivileged users to creat…
CVE-2026-35535High7.42026-04-03In Sudo through 1.9.17p2 before 3e474c2, a failure of a setuid, setgid, or setgroups call, during a privilege drop before running the mailer, is not a fatal er…
CVE-2024-35179Medium6.82024-05-15Stalwart Mail Server is an open-source mail server. Prior to version 0.8.0, when using `RUN_AS_USER`, the specified user (and therefore, web interface admins)…
CVE-2023-38496Medium6.12023-07-25Apptainer is an open source container platform. Version 1.2.0-rc.2 introduced an ineffective privilege drop when requesting container network setup, therefore…
CVE-2019-11243Low3.12019-04-22In Kubernetes v1.12.0-v1.12.4 and v1.13.0, the rest.AnonymousClientConfig() method returns a copy of the provided config, with credentials removed (bearer toke…
CVE-2026-257042026-03-30A Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors/Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition vulnerability in  cosmic-greeter can allow an attacker to regain privi…
CVE-2022-35692022-10-17Due to an issue with incorrect sudo permissions, Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) suffers from a local privilege escalation issue in versions 9.0.0 and prior…
CVE-2020-355132021-01-25A flaw incorrect umask during file or directory modification in the Linux kernel NFS (network file system) functionality was found in the way user create and d…