CWE-273
Improper Check for Dropped Privileges
The product attempts to drop privileges but does not check or incorrectly checks to see if the drop succeeded.
CVE-2024-38813 (GCVE-0-2024-38813)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-09-17 17:13
Modified
2025-07-30 01:36
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
The vCenter Server contains a privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with network access to vCenter Server may trigger this vulnerability to escalate privileges to root by sending a specially crafted network packet.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
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| ▼ | n/a | VMware vCenter Server |
Version: 8.0 < 8.0 U3b Version: 7.0 < 7.0 U3s |
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CVE-2025-53882 (GCVE-0-2025-53882)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-23 09:31
Modified
2025-09-03 07:23
Severity ?
4.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-807 - Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision
Summary
A Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision vulnerability in the logrotate configuration for openSUSE mailman3 package allows the mailman user to sent SIGHUP to arbitrary processes. This issue affects openSUSE Tumbleweed: from ? before 3.3.10-2.1.
References
Impacted products
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Mitigation ID: MIT-46
Phase: Architecture and Design
Strategy: Separation of Privilege
Description:
- Compartmentalize the system to have "safe" areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
- Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.
Mitigation ID: MIT-53
Phase: Implementation
Description:
- Check the results of all functions that return a value and verify that the value is expected.
Mitigation
Phase: Implementation
Description:
- In Windows, make sure that the process token has the SeImpersonatePrivilege(Microsoft Server 2003). Code that relies on impersonation for security must ensure that the impersonation succeeded, i.e., that a proper privilege demotion happened.
No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.