CWE-270 Privilege Context Switching Error

base

The product does not properly manage privileges while it is switching between different contexts that have different privileges or spheres of control.

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parent weaknesses

Broader classes this is a kind of.

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vulnerabilities (38)

Known CVEs related to this entry.

IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2021-3493UShigh7.8OT criticalKEV
The overlayfs implementation in the linux kernel did not properly validate with respect to user namespaces the setting of file capabilities on files in an underlying file system. D…
CVE-2019-11708UScritical10.0OT criticalKEV
Insufficient vetting of parameters passed with the Prompt:Open IPC message between child and parent processes can result in the non-sandboxed parent process opening web content cho…
CVE-2023-26475UShigh8.8—
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Starting in version 2.3-milestone-1, the annotation displayer does not execute the content in a restricted context. This allows executing…
CVE-2026-9560UShigh7.8Exploit
Privilege escalation via background service of OpenVPN Connect 3.5.1 through 3.8.1 on macOS allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges via local IPC ch…
CVE-2023-25754UScritical9.8—
Privilege Context Switching Error vulnerability in Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow.This issue affects Apache Airflow: before 2.6.0.
CVE-2026-88200UShigh8.8—
Privilege context switching error in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
CVE-2025-53836UShigh8.8OT elevated—
XWiki Rendering is a generic rendering system that converts textual input in a given syntax (wiki syntax, HTML, etc) into another syntax (XHTML, etc). Starting in version 4.2-miles…
CVE-2025-49581UShigh8.8—
XWiki is a generic wiki platform. Any user with edit right on a page (could be the user's profile) can execute code (Groovy, Python, Velocity) with programming right by defining a…
CVE-2024-36513UShigh8.8—
A privilege context switching error vulnerability [CWE-270] in FortiClient Windows version 7.2.4 and below, version 7.0.12 and below, 6.4 all versions may allow an authenticated us…
CVE-2024-8641UShigh8.8—
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 13.7 prior to 17.1.7, from 17.2 prior to 17.2.5, and from 17.3 prior to 17.3.2. It may have been p…
CVE-2023-37912UShigh8.8—
XWiki Rendering is a generic Rendering system that converts textual input in a given syntax into another syntax. Prior to version 14.10.6 of `org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-core-renderin…
CVE-2019-14819UShigh8.8—
A flaw was found during the upgrade of an existing OpenShift Container Platform 3.x cluster. Using CRI-O, the dockergc service account is assigned to the current namespace of the u…
CVE-2018-6560UShigh8.8—
In dbus-proxy/flatpak-proxy.c in Flatpak before 0.8.9, and 0.9.x and 0.10.x before 0.10.3, crafted D-Bus messages to the host can be used to break out of the sandbox, because white…
CVE-2024-11263UShigh8.4—
When the Global Pointer (GP) relative addressing is enabled (CONFIG_RISCV_GP=y), the gp reg points at 0x800 bytes past the start of the .sdata section which is then used by the lin…
CVE-2012-2816UShigh7.8—
Google Chrome before 20.0.1132.43 on Windows does not properly isolate sandboxed processes, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process interference) v…
CVE-2020-25696UShigh7.5—
A flaw was found in the psql interactive terminal of PostgreSQL in versions before 13.1, before 12.5, before 11.10, before 10.15, before 9.6.20 and before 9.5.24. If an interactive…
CVE-2017-2663UShigh7.8—
It was found that subscription-manager's DBus interface before 1.19.4 let unprivileged user access the com.redhat.RHSM1.Facts.GetFacts and com.redhat.RHSM1.Config.Set methods. An u…
CVE-2026-34853UShigh7.5—
Permission bypass vulnerability in the LBS module. Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.
CVE-2025-55210UShigh7.5—
FreePBX is an open-source web-based graphical user interface (GUI) that manages Asterisk. Prior to 17.0.5 and 16.0.17, FreePBX module api (PBX API) is vulnerable to privilege escal…
CVE-1999-1143UShigh7.2—
Vulnerability in runtime linker program rld in SGI IRIX 6.x and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via setuid and setgid programs.
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attack patterns (3)

CAPEC attack patterns that exploit this.

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