Cyber Posture

CWE · MITRE source

CWE-274Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges

Abstraction: Base · CVEs in our corpus: 40

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles when it has insufficient privileges to perform an operation, leading to resultant weaknesses.

Last updated: 09 May 2026 03:25 UTC

NIST 800-53 r5 controls that address this weakness (0)AI

Control Title Family Why it addresses this CWE
No NIST controls proposed yet.

Top CVEs of this weakness type, ranked by Risk Priority

CVE Risk CVSS EPSS Published
CVE-2025-201562.29.90.03382025-01-22
CVE-2025-293652.09.80.00132025-08-22
CVE-2020-72641.88.80.00032020-05-08
CVE-2020-72651.88.80.00032020-05-08
CVE-2020-72661.88.80.00032020-05-08
CVE-2020-72671.88.80.00032020-05-08
CVE-2024-01051.88.90.00082024-11-01
CVE-2022-451011.77.30.04232023-02-01
CVE-2023-359281.78.40.00462023-06-23
CVE-2024-01061.78.70.00062024-11-01
CVE-2020-72851.67.80.00052020-05-08
CVE-2020-72861.67.80.00052020-05-08
CVE-2020-72871.67.80.00052020-05-08
CVE-2020-72881.67.80.00052020-05-08
CVE-2020-72891.67.80.00052020-05-08
CVE-2020-72901.67.80.00052020-05-08
CVE-2020-72911.67.80.00052020-05-08
CVE-2020-246761.67.80.00042020-12-22
CVE-2024-216481.68.00.00342024-01-09
CVE-2024-469741.67.80.00092025-01-31
CVE-2020-72831.57.50.00342020-07-03
CVE-2023-393751.57.50.00152023-09-27
CVE-2018-66741.46.80.00022018-05-25
CVE-2021-355341.47.20.00152021-11-18
CVE-2022-235111.47.10.00252022-12-12