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AbishekharT · ‎07-14-2026

what is Elevated privilege?

Tanushree Maiti · ‎07-15-2026

Elevated privileges in ServiceNow are an additional security measure used to protect highly sensitive administrative tasks from accidental or unauthorized changes. This special permission gets activated the permissions for your current session only.

The most common elevated privilege is the security_admin role. When elevated, this role allows administrators to perform restricted actions such as modifying High Security Settings and creating or editing Access Control Lists (ACLs), which are otherwise protected.

refer: Elevated privilege roles

Elevate to a privileged role

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Aditya_hublikar · ‎07-20-2026

Hello @AbishekharT ,

Elevated privileges mean temporarily gaining higher security permissions to perform specific, sensitive tasks.

You can refer this :

https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/platform-security/c_ElevatedPrivilege.html

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Aditya