Improper Privilege Mgmt
3,441 CVEs across 134 months on the top 50 list since Sep 1999. Peak rank #3 in Jun 2002.
CWE-269 CVEs per month since Sep 1999
Oct 2021: 35 CVEs · rank #11Nov 2021: 30 CVEs · rank #12Dec 2021: 22 CVEs · rank #20Jan 2022: 17 CVEs · rank #26Feb 2022: 11 CVEs · rank #37Mar 2022: 18 CVEs · rank #27Apr 2022: 28 CVEs · rank #18May 2022: 23 CVEs · rank #21Jun 2022: 63 CVEs · rank #5Jul 2022: 12 CVEs · rank #29Aug 2022: 41 CVEs · rank #13Sep 2022: 28 CVEs · rank #20Oct 2022: 16 CVEs · rank #29Nov 2022: 21 CVEs · rank #25Dec 2022: 31 CVEs · rank #20Jan 2023: 41 CVEs · rank #14Feb 2023: 26 CVEs · rank #21Mar 2023: not on the top 50 that monthApr 2023: 35 CVEs · rank #15May 2023: 17 CVEs · rank #28Jun 2023: 18 CVEs · rank #32Jul 2023: 21 CVEs · rank #22Aug 2023: 27 CVEs · rank #18Sep 2023: 34 CVEs · rank #15Oct 2023: 51 CVEs · rank #12Nov 2023: 36 CVEs · rank #17Dec 2023: 26 CVEs · rank #23Jan 2024: 32 CVEs · rank #23Feb 2024: 27 CVEs · rank #26Mar 2024: 45 CVEs · rank #15Apr 2024: 33 CVEs · rank #23May 2024: 84 CVEs · rank #14Jun 2024: 31 CVEs · rank #23Jul 2024: 51 CVEs · rank #18Aug 2024: 37 CVEs · rank #20Sep 2024: 38 CVEs · rank #17Oct 2024: 16 CVEs · rank #42Nov 2024: 17 CVEs · rank #41Dec 2024: 12 CVEs · rank #47Jan 2025: 21 CVEs · rank #37Feb 2025: 19 CVEs · rank #36Mar 2025: 32 CVEs · rank #30Apr 2025: 38 CVEs · rank #29May 2025: 23 CVEs · rank #36Jun 2025: 31 CVEs · rank #31Jul 2025: 49 CVEs · rank #25Aug 2025: 31 CVEs · rank #30Sep 2025: 32 CVEs · rank #32Oct 2025: 26 CVEs · rank #35Nov 2025: 36 CVEs · rank #27Dec 2025: 32 CVEs · rank #32Jan 2026: 31 CVEs · rank #34Feb 2026: 41 CVEs · rank #34Mar 2026: 66 CVEs · rank #31Apr 2026: 57 CVEs · rank #33May 2026: 85 CVEs · rank #28Jun 2026: 115 CVEs · rank #21Jul 2026: 252 CVEs · rank #13Aug 2026: 207 CVEs · rank #19Sep 2026 so far: 286 CVEs · rank #9
Year by year
Each year's months on the top 50 list of weakness classes. Pick a year to read it in the lens.
The record
- Peak rank
- #3 in Jun 2002
- Busiest month
- Sep 2026, 286 CVEs
- First on the list
- Sep 1999
- On the top 50 list
- 134 of 325 monthly snapshots