Norton, Avira, Avast and AVG Antivirus for Windows may be susceptible to a Privilege Escalation vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an attacker may attempt to compromise the software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user.

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 7.0.16. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox. Note: This vulnerability applies to Windows hosts only. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.8 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.6, macOS Big Sur 11.7. An app may be able to gain elevated privileges.

A vulnerability was found in all openshift/mediawiki-apb 4.x.x versions prior to 4.3.0, where an insecure modification vulnerability in the /etc/passwd file was found in the container openshift/mediawiki-apb. An attacker with access to the container could use this flaw to modify /etc/passwd and escalate their privileges.

An issue was discovered in rConfig 3.9.3. The install script updates the /etc/sudoers file for rconfig specific tasks. After an "rConfig specific Apache configuration" update, apache has high privileges for some binaries. This can be exploited by an attacker to bypass local security restrictions.

An issue was discovered in TitanHQ WebTitan before 5.18. It has a sudoers file that enables low-privilege users to execute a vast number of commands as root, including mv, chown, and chmod. This can be trivially exploited to gain root privileges by an attacker with access.

CA Automic Dollar Universe 5.3.3 contains a vulnerability, related to the uxdqmsrv binary being setuid root, that allows local attackers to elevate privileges. This vulnerability was reported to CA several years after CA Automic Dollar Universe 5.3.3 reached End of Life (EOL) status on April 1, 2015.

OpenBSD through 6.6 allows local users to escalate to root because a check for LD_LIBRARY_PATH in setuid programs can be defeated by setting a very small RLIMIT_DATA resource limit. When executing chpass or passwd (which are setuid root), _dl_setup_env in ld.so tries to strip LD_LIBRARY_PATH from the environment, but fails when it cannot allocate memory. Thus, the attacker is able to execute their own library code as root.

Local privilege escalation due to excessive permissions assigned to child processes. The following products are affected: Acronis Snap Deploy (Windows) before build 3640

A potential security vulnerability has been identified for HP LaserJet Solution Software (for certain HP LaserJet Printers) which may lead to unauthorized elevation of privilege on the client.

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in a Windows system driver of McAfee Drive Encryption (DE) prior to 7.3.0 could allow a local non-admin user to gain elevated system privileges via exploiting an unutilized memory buffer.

A vulnerability in the AppDynamics .NET Agent for Windows could allow an attacker to leverage an authenticated, local user account to gain SYSTEM privileges. This vulnerability is due to the .NET Agent Coordinator Service executing code with SYSTEM privileges. An attacker with local access to a device that is running the vulnerable agent could create a custom process that would be launched with those SYSTEM privileges. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system. This vulnerability is fixed in AppDynamics .NET Agent Release 21.7.

Improper Privilege Management vulnerability exists in homeLYnk (Wiser For KNX) and spaceLYnk V2.60 and prior which could cause shell access when unauthorized code is loaded into the system folder.

In Ivanti WorkSpace Control before 10.4.40.0, a user can elevate rights on the system by hijacking certain user registries. This is possible because pwrgrid.exe first checks the Current User registry hives (HKCU) when starting an application with elevated rights.

A component of the HarmonyOS has a Improper Privilege Management vulnerability. Local attackers may exploit this vulnerability to cause further Elevation of Privileges.

FastTrack Admin By Request 6.1.0.0 supports group policies that are supposed to allow only a select range of users to elevate to Administrator privilege at will. If a user does not have direct access to the elevation feature through group policies, they are prompted to enter a PIN code in a challenge-response manner upon attempting to elevate privileges. The challenge's response uses a simple algorithm that can be easily emulated via data (customer ID and device name) available to all users, and thus any user can elevate to Administrator privilege.

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the IOCTL 0x9c406144 handling of IOBit Advanced SystemCare Ultimate 14.2.0.220. A specially crafted I/O request packet (IRP) can lead to increased privileges. An attacker can send a malicious IRP to trigger this vulnerability.

Bypass Remote Procedure call in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.30 allows a local user to gain elevated privileges and perform arbitrary file modification as the SYSTEM user potentially causing Denial of Service via executing carefully constructed malware.

net/netfilter/nf_dup_netdev.c in the Linux kernel 5.4 through 5.6.10 allows local users to gain privileges because of a heap out-of-bounds write. This is related to nf_tables_offload.

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in X1a0He Adobe Downloader up to 1.3.1 on macOS. Affected is the function shouldAcceptNewConnection of the file com.x1a0he.macOS.Adobe-Downloader.helper of the component XPC Service. The manipulation leads to improper privilege management. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. This product is not affiliated with the company Adobe.

In Malwarebytes Binisoft Windows Firewall Control before 6.8.1.0, programs executed from the Tools tab can be used to escalate privileges.

Improper Privilege Management vulnerability exists in homeLYnk (Wiser For KNX) and spaceLYnk V2.60 and prior which could cause a code execution issue when an attacker loads unauthorized code on the web server.

Pritunl Client through 1.2.3019.52 on Windows allows local privilege escalation, related to an ACL entry for CREATOR OWNER in platform_windows.go.

Potential product security bypass vulnerability in McAfee Application and Change Control (MACC) prior to version 8.3.4 allows a locally logged in attacker to circumvent the application solidification protection provided by MACC, permitting them to run applications that would usually be prevented by MACC. This would require the attacker to rename the specified binary to match name of any configured updater and perform a specific set of steps, resulting in the renamed binary to be to run.

Symantec Endpoint Protection, prior to 14.3 RU6 (14.3.9210.6000), may be susceptible to a Elevation of Privilege vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an attacker may attempt to compromise the software application to gain elevated

In Spring Framework, versions 5.2.x prior to 5.2.15 and versions 5.3.x prior to 5.3.7, a WebFlux application is vulnerable to a privilege escalation: by (re)creating the temporary storage directory, a locally authenticated malicious user can read or modify files that have been uploaded to the WebFlux application, or overwrite arbitrary files with multipart request data.

Windows Container Manager Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Windows Container Manager Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager Agent through 25.10.0 allows a local user to achieve privilege escalation through policy elevation of an Administration task.

Omnissa Horizon Client for macOS contains a Local privilege escalation (LPE) Vulnerability due to a logic flaw. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with user privileges to escalate their privileges to root on the system where the Horizon Client for macOS is installed.

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint for Windows prior to 11.6.100 allows a local, low privileged, attacker to write to arbitrary controlled kernel addresses. This is achieved by launching applications, suspending them, modifying the memory and restarting them when they are monitored by McAfee DLP through the hdlphook driver.

Privilege escalation vulnerability in MicroK8s allows a low privilege user with local access to obtain root access to the host by provisioning a privileged container. Fixed in MicroK8s 1.15.3.

UltraVNC is a free and open source remote pc access software. A vulnerability has been found in versions prior to 1.3.8.0 in which the DSM plugin module, which allows a local authenticated user to achieve local privilege escalation (LPE) on a vulnerable system. The vulnerability has been fixed to allow loading of plugins from the installed directory. Affected users should upgrade their UltraVNC to 1.3.8.1. Users unable to upgrade should not install and run UltraVNC server as a service. It is advisable to create a scheduled task on a low privilege account to launch WinVNC.exe instead. There are no known workarounds if winvnc needs to be started as a service.

Arbitrary Process Execution vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.30 allows a local user to gain elevated privileges and execute arbitrary code bypassing MTP self-defense.

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.32 allows a local user to gain elevated privileges by impersonating a client token which could lead to the bypassing of MTP self-defense.

An issue was discovered in Acuant AsureID Sentinel before 5.2.149. It allows elevation of privileges because it opens Notepad after the installation of AssureID, Identify x64, and Identify x86, aka CORE-7361.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) service improperly allows COM object creation, aka 'Windows UPnP Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

Improper initialization of default settings in TeamViewer Remote Client prior version 15.51.5 for Windows, Linux and macOS, allow a low privileged user to elevate privileges by changing the personal password setting and establishing a remote connection to a logged-in admin account.

There is a privilege escalation vulnerability in some Huawei products. Due to improper privilege management, a local attacker with common privilege may access some specific files in the affected products. Successful exploit will cause privilege escalation.Affected product versions include:eCNS280_TD V100R005C00,V100R005C10;eSE620X vESS V100R001C10SPC200,V100R001C20SPC200.

Dell PowerScale OneFS 9.1.0.x contains an improper privilege management vulnerability. It may allow an authenticated user with ISI_PRIV_LOGIN_SSH and/or ISI_PRIV_LOGIN_CONSOLE to elevate privilege.

Privilege escalation vulnerability in Lamassu Bitcoin ATM Douro machines, in its 7.1 version, which could allow a local user to acquire root permissions by modifying the updatescript.js, inserting special code inside the script and creating the done.txt file. This would cause the watchdog process to run as root and execute the payload stored in the updatescript.js.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Windows Certificate Dialog when it does not properly enforce user privileges, aka 'Windows Certificate Dialog Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Potential security vulnerabilities have been identified in HP Support Assistant. These vulnerabilities include privilege escalation, compromise of integrity, allowed communication with untrusted clients, and unauthorized modification of files.

The BigFix Console installer is created with InstallShield, which was affected by CVE-2021-41526, a vulnerability that could allow a local user to perform a privilege escalation. This vulnerability was resolved by updating to an InstallShield version with the underlying vulnerability fixed.

A miscommunication in the file system allows adversaries with access to the MU320E to escalate privileges on the MU320E (all firmware versions prior to v04A00.1).

An issue was discovered in the changePassword method in file /usr/share/php/openmediavault/system/user.inc in OpenMediaVault 7.4.17 allowing local authenticated attackers to escalate privileges to root.

The eudskacs.sys driver version 20250328 shipped with EaseUs Todo Backup 1.2.0.1 fails to properly validate privileges for I/O requests (IRP_MJ_READ/IRP_MJ_WRITE) sent to its device object. This allows a local, low-privileged attacker to perform arbitrary raw disk reads and writes, leading to sensitive information disclosure, denial of service, or local privilege escalation.

Intent redirection in Samsung Experience Service versions 10.8.0.4 in Android P(9.0) below, and 12.2.0.5 in Android Q(10.0) above allows attacker to execute privileged action.

Windows Runtime C++ Template Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability