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Weakness (CWE)

CWE-1220: Insufficient Granularity of Access Control

Base Incomplete

The product implements access controls via a policy or other feature with the intention to disable or restrict accesses (reads and/or writes) to assets in a system from untrusted agents. However, implemented access controls lack the required granularity

How to prevent it (1 mitigation)

  1. Architecture and Design, Implementation, Testing

    - Access-control-policy protections must be reviewed for design inconsistency and common weaknesses.

    - Access-control-policy definition and programming flow must be tested in pre-silicon, post-silicon testing.

Source: MITRE CWE-1220

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  • Critical 9.6
    CVE-2026-6356 Public exploit

    CVE-2026-6356

    A vulnerability in the web application allows standard users to escalate their privileges to those of a super administrator through parameter manipulation, enabling them to access and modify sensitive information.

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  • Critical 9.1
    CVE-2025-4404 Public exploit

    Freeipa: idm: privilege escalation from host to domain admin in freeipa

    A privilege escalation from host to domain vulnerability was found in the FreeIPA project. The FreeIPA package fails to validate the uniqueness of the `krbCanonicalName` for the admin account by default, allowing users to create services with the same canonic…

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