Improper Privilege Management vulnerabilities
CWE-269 · 12 tracked
Improper Privilege Management (CWE-269) is a recognized software weakness class in the MITRE CWE catalog. The vulnerabilities below are all instances of this pattern.
How it’s exploited
How improper privilege management is exploited depends on the specific vulnerability, but every CVE in this class shares the same underlying flaw pattern — which is why the same class of mitigation applies across them.
How to prevent it
Recognizing the improper privilege management pattern lets you apply one class of fix across every affected component. Each CVE page below carries specific, version-level remediation.
Tracked improper privilege management vulnerabilities
12 CVEs in this class, each with severity, exploit status, EPSS, and remediation.
CVE-2026-75857CVE-2026-73842CVE-2026-73293CVE-2026-55485CVE-2026-55843GHSA-pg62-f8g4-4wqhCVE-2026-54168CVE-2026-73974CVE-2026-65835CVE-2026-50570CVE-2026-73305CVE-2026-65595
Frequently asked questions
- What is Improper Privilege Management?
- Improper Privilege Management (CWE-269) is a recognized software weakness class in the MITRE CWE catalog. The vulnerabilities below are all instances of this pattern.
- How is improper privilege management exploited?
- How improper privilege management is exploited depends on the specific vulnerability, but every CVE in this class shares the same underlying flaw pattern — which is why the same class of mitigation applies across them.
- How do you prevent improper privilege management?
- Recognizing the improper privilege management pattern lets you apply one class of fix across every affected component. Each CVE page below carries specific, version-level remediation.
- How many improper privilege management vulnerabilities are there?
- O3 tracks 12 vulnerabilities classified as CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management), each with severity, exploit status, EPSS exploitation probability, and remediation. The full list is below.