CWE-268Privilege Chaining

Abstraction: Base · CVEs in our corpus: 22

Two distinct privileges, roles, capabilities, or rights can be combined in a way that allows an entity to perform unsafe actions that would not be allowed without that combination.

Last updated: 14 October 2026 20:41 UTC

Cumulative inbound coverage

How completely the frameworks we cross-walk collectively cover this — the verdict is the strongest single mapping (overlapping partials are not summed); breadth shows the corroboration behind it.

Collective: partial · 5 mapping(s) from 5 framework(s): STIG ubuntu 22 04 1 (partial) · STIG ubuntu 24 04 1 (partial) · STIG windows 10 1 (partial) · STIG windows server 2016 1 (partial) · STIG windows server 2019 1 (partial)

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Control responseHuman-reviewed

Answering this weakness across the control lifecycle, from our framework cross-walks.

Prevent

Stop it (NIST 800-53 / CSF Protect)

PR.AA-05
AC-5 Separation of Duties
AC-6 Least Privilege
AC-3 Access Enforcement

Detect

Catch it (CSF Detect / Respond)

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Harden

Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

5 hardening rules · 5 OS baselines

Validate

Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)

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NIST 800-53 r5 controls PROPOSED for this weakness (0)AI-assisted

These are model PROPOSALS, not graded mappings. They come from controls_to_cwe_proposals, which carries no grade field at all; across the CWE pages 1,540 of 1,722 such associations (89%) have never been graded by anything. The heading said “address” until 2026-09-29, which asserted a relationship the data does not carry. Graded cross-walks are on the framework map, not here.

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-2023-0971`	6.6	9.6	0.0025	2023-06-21
`CVE-2023-0759`	6.5	8.8	0.0034	2023-02-09
`CVE-2024-4877`	6.5	8.8	0.0043	2025-04-03
`CVE-2019-3844`	6.0	7.8	0.0092	2019-04-26
`CVE-2025-49741`	6.0	7.4	0.0391	2025-07-01
`CVE-2023-5839`	5.8	7.8	0.0029	2023-10-29
`CVE-2025-0889`	5.7	7.8	0.0020	2025-02-26
`CVE-2024-47045`	5.6	7.8	0.0015	2024-09-26
`CVE-2025-2297`	5.6	7.8	0.0013	2025-07-28
`CVE-2025-64701`	5.6	7.8	0.0012	2025-12-11
`CVE-2026-3888`	5.6	7.8	0.0047	2026-03-17
`CVE-2026-32325`	5.6	7.8	0.0014	2026-06-01
`CVE-2024-1299`	5.1	6.5	0.0066	2024-03-07
`CVE-2023-2250`	5.0	6.7	0.0020	2023-04-24
`CVE-2024-1250`	5.0	6.5	0.0055	2024-02-12
`CVE-2025-36124`	4.7	5.9	0.0040	2025-08-12
`CVE-2025-32955`	4.5	6.0	0.0023	2025-04-21
`CVE-2023-20194`	4.1	4.9	0.0072	2023-09-07
`CVE-2025-20112`	3.8	5.1	0.0014	2025-05-21
`CVE-2022-1003`	3.0	3.3	0.0050	2022-03-18