CWE-59: CWE-59
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All CWE-59 CVEs (284)
This CVE describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Apple operating systems where improper symlink handling allows malicious applications to ga...
Feb 21, 2024This CVE describes a link following vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One security agent that allows a local attacker to escalate privileges on affect...
Jan 23, 2024This CVE describes a link following vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One security agent that allows a local attacker to escalate privileges on affect...
Jan 23, 2024This vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One agent allows a local attacker with low-privileged code execution to abuse the updater to delete arbitrary f...
Jan 23, 2024This CVE describes a link following vulnerability in Trend Micro Deep Security 20.0 and Cloud One - Endpoint and Workload Security Agent that allows l...
Jan 23, 2024This CVE describes an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Visual Studio that allows authenticated attackers to gain SYSTEM-level privileges on aff...
Jan 9, 2024This vulnerability allows a malicious buildkite-agent user to change ownership of arbitrary directories via a symbolic link attack in the fix-buildkit...
Dec 22, 2023CVE-2023-36391 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) that allows authenticated a...
Dec 12, 2023This vulnerability in Zoom Rooms for macOS allows authenticated users with local access to escalate privileges through improper link following. Attack...
Nov 15, 2023This Windows Installer vulnerability allows attackers to elevate privileges on affected systems by exploiting improper handling of file operations. It...
Nov 14, 2023This Windows authentication vulnerability allows attackers to elevate privileges on affected systems. An authenticated attacker could exploit this to ...
Nov 14, 2023This vulnerability allows an authenticated attacker with local access to an Azure virtual machine to elevate privileges to SYSTEM level through the Ne...
Oct 10, 2023This vulnerability in the Windows Runtime C++ Template Library allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges on ...
Oct 10, 2023This vulnerability in Windows Container Manager Service allows an authenticated attacker to gain SYSTEM-level privileges by exploiting improper link r...
Oct 10, 2023This critical vulnerability in ChromeOS allowed attackers to perform arbitrary read/write operations via malicious files, potentially leading to syste...
Aug 25, 2023CVE-2023-36874 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows Error Reporting Service that allows authenticated attackers to gain SYSTEM...
Jul 11, 2023This vulnerability allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges by exploiting a flaw in Windows Image Acquisition...
Jul 11, 2023This is a Windows privilege escalation vulnerability in the Connected User Experiences and Telemetry service. It allows authenticated attackers to gai...
Jul 11, 2023This Windows Installer vulnerability allows attackers to gain SYSTEM-level privileges by exploiting improper handling of symbolic links. It affects Wi...
Jul 11, 2023This vulnerability allows an authenticated attacker to elevate privileges on Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) servers. Attackers could gain SYSTEM...
Jul 11, 2023This vulnerability allows an authenticated attacker to gain SYSTEM-level privileges on Windows systems by exploiting a flaw in the Container Manager S...
Jun 14, 2023CVE-2023-33865 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in RenderDoc that allows attackers to gain elevated privileges via symlink attacks. It af...
Jun 7, 2023This vulnerability allows a local attacker on Windows systems to escalate privileges by exploiting insufficient data validation in Google Chrome's ins...
May 30, 2023This vulnerability in Wacom Tablet Driver installer for macOS allows arbitrary code execution with root privileges when a user is tricked into running...
May 25, 2023This vulnerability in Sysinternals Sysmon for Windows allows attackers to elevate privileges from a low-privileged user to SYSTEM level. It affects Wi...
May 9, 2023This vulnerability in Malwarebytes AdwCleaner 8.4.0 allows non-admin users to escalate privileges to SYSTEM by exploiting an insecure file deletion op...
Mar 29, 2023This vulnerability in Malwarebytes allows attackers to delete arbitrary files via symbolic link exploitation in the local quarantine system. It affect...
Mar 23, 2023This vulnerability in Microsoft OneDrive for macOS allows an attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system. An authenticated attacker could explo...
Mar 14, 2023This CVE describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One's scanning function. An attacker with low-privileged access can ...
Mar 10, 2023This vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One allows a local attacker with low-privileged access to escalate privileges by manipulating file links. Attac...
Mar 10, 2023This CVE describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Yandex Browser for Windows. A local attacker with low privileges can manipulate symbo...
Jun 15, 2022This vulnerability allows a local attacker with low privileges to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges by manipulating symbolic links during ...
Jun 15, 2022This vulnerability in ABB Drive Composer allows low-privileged users to create and write arbitrary files anywhere on the file system with SYSTEM privi...
Jun 15, 2022This vulnerability in ABB Drive Composer allows low-privileged users to create and write arbitrary files anywhere on the file system with SYSTEM privi...
Jun 15, 2022This macOS vulnerability allows malicious applications to bypass symlink validation and gain elevated privileges. It affects macOS Monterey versions b...
May 26, 2022This vulnerability in Trend Micro Password Manager allows a local attacker with low privileges to delete arbitrary folder contents with SYSTEM-level p...
May 16, 2022This vulnerability in Beego's MemProf function allows local attackers to perform symlink attacks, potentially overwriting arbitrary files on the syste...
Apr 5, 2022This vulnerability allows a local attacker with low-privileged code execution to escalate privileges by creating mount points and deleting arbitrary f...
Feb 24, 2022CVE-2021-44730 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in snapd where improper validation of the snap-confine binary location allows local attackers t...
Feb 17, 2022This vulnerability allows an authenticated attacker to exploit the Windows User Profile Service to gain SYSTEM privileges on affected Windows systems....
Jan 11, 2022This vulnerability allows an authenticated attacker to execute code with SYSTEM privileges on Windows systems by exploiting improper link resolution i...
Dec 15, 2021This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges on Windows systems running vulnerable versions of Google Chrome. By tricking a user...
Oct 8, 2021This vulnerability in Acronis True Image 2020 allows unprivileged users to escalate privileges to SYSTEM by exploiting improper access controls in the...
May 25, 2021This CVE describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection's File Lock component. A local user can manipulate symbolic l...
May 12, 2021CVE-2020-28007 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in Exim mail servers where an attacker can create symbolic or hard links in the log directory t...
May 6, 2021CVE-2021-28321 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft's Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service. It allows authenticated attackers...
Apr 13, 2021CVE-2021-30463 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in VestaCP that allows attackers to gain admin privileges by exploiting symlink creation ...
Apr 8, 2021A local privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Windows allows low-privileged attackers to load arbitrary DLLs via...
Mar 23, 2021CVE-2021-26889 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Windows Update Stack that allows authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code wi...
Mar 11, 2021Western Digital My Cloud OS 5 devices before version 5.10.122 have a symbolic link following vulnerability in SMB and AFP shares. This allows attacker...
Mar 10, 2021About CWE-59 (CWE-59)
Our database tracks 284 CVEs classified as CWE-59, with 13 rated critical and 203 rated high severity. The average CVSS score for CWE-59 vulnerabilities is 7.4.
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