CWE-273 · Improper Check for Dropped Privileges

39 CVEs classified under CWE-273 (Improper Check for Dropped Privileges). Browse by severity and year.

Top CVEs for CWE-273
CVESeverityScorePublishedSummary
CVE-2023-34844Critical9.82023-06-29Play With Docker < 0.0.2 has an insecure CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileged mode causing the docker container to escape.
CVE-2021-36372Critical9.82021-11-19In Apache Ozone versions prior to 1.2.0, Initially generated block tokens are persisted to the metadata database and can be retrieved with authenticated users…
CVE-2020-24361Critical9.82020-08-16SNMPTT before 1.4.2 allows attackers to execute shell code via EXEC, PREXEC, or unknown_trap_exec.
CVE-2011-3350Critical9.82019-11-19masqmail 0.2.21 through 0.2.30 improperly calls seteuid() in src/log.c and src/masqmail.c that results in improper privilege dropping.
CVE-2011-2921Critical9.82019-11-19ktsuss versions 1.4 and prior has the uid set to root and does not drop privileges prior to executing user specified commands, which can result in command exec…
CVE-2012-1187Critical9.82019-10-29Bitlbee does not drop extra group privileges correctly in unix.c
CVE-2017-6972Critical9.82017-03-22AlienVault USM and OSSIM before 5.3.7 and NfSen before 1.3.8 have an error in privilege dropping and unnecessarily execute the NfSen Perl code as root, aka Ali…
CVE-2026-32107High8.82026-04-17xrdp is an open source RDP server. In versions through 0.10.5, the session execution component did not properly handle an error during the privilege drop proce…
CVE-2025-27396High8.82025-03-11A vulnerability has been identified in SCALANCE LPE9403 (6GK5998-3GS00-2AC2) (All versions < V4.0). Affected devices do not properly limit the elevation of pri…
CVE-2024-8382High8.82024-09-03Internal browser event interfaces were exposed to web content when privileged EventHandler listener callbacks ran for those events. Web content that tried to u…
CVE-2020-14300High8.82020-07-13The docker packages version docker-1.13.1-108.git4ef4b30.el7 as released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras via RHBA-2020:0053 (https://access.redhat.com/er…
CVE-2020-14298High8.82020-07-13The version of docker as released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras via RHBA-2020:0053 advisory included an incorrect version of runc missing the fix for C…
CVE-2026-21882High8.42026-03-02theshit is a command-line utility that automatically detects and fixes common mistakes in shell commands. Prior to version 0.2.0, improper privilege dropping a…
CVE-2018-16466High8.12018-10-30Improper revalidation of permissions in Nextcloud Server prior to 14.0.0, 13.0.6 and 12.0.11 lead to not accepting access restrictions by acess tokens.
CVE-2026-0099High7.82026-06-01In onNullBinding of HostEmulationManager.java, there is a possible way to launch an activity from the background due to a logic error in the code. This could l…
CVE-2023-34322High7.82024-01-05For migration as well as to work around kernels unaware of L1TF (see XSA-273), PV guests may be run in shadow paging mode. Since Xen itself needs to be mapped…
CVE-2023-35692High7.82023-07-14In getLocationCache of GeoLocation.java, there is a possible way to send a mock location during an emergency call due to improper input validation. This could…
CVE-2022-0358High7.82022-08-29A flaw was found in the QEMU virtio-fs shared file system daemon (virtiofsd) implementation. This flaw is strictly related to CVE-2018-13405. A local guest use…
CVE-2019-20044High7.82020-02-24In Zsh before 5.8, attackers able to execute commands can regain privileges dropped by the --no-PRIVILEGED option. Zsh fails to overwrite the saved uid, so the…
CVE-2019-18276High7.82019-11-28An issue was discovered in disable_priv_mode in shell.c in GNU Bash through 5.0 patch 11. By default, if Bash is run with its effective UID not equal to its re…