Weakness (CWE)
CWE-284: Improper Access Control
The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
How to prevent it (2 mitigations)
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Architecture and Design, Operation
Very carefully manage the setting, management, and handling of privileges. Explicitly manage trust zones in the software.
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Architecture and Design
Compartmentalize the system to have "safe" areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.
Source: MITRE CWE-284
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Chef Improper Access Control vulnerability
chef-server-api/app/controllers/users.rb in the API in Chef before 0.9.0 does not require administrative privileges for the create, destroy, and update methods, which allows remote authenticated users to manage user accounts via requests to the /users URI.
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Moodle does not use the forceloginforprofiles setting for course-profiles access control
Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.2 does not use the forceloginforprofiles setting for course-profiles access control, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information via vectors involving use of a search engine, as demonstrated b…
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Moodle does not properly restrict access to category and course data
The file_browser component in Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.5 and 2.1.x before 2.1.2 does not properly restrict access to category and course data, which allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information via a request for a file.
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Action Pack contains database-query restrictions bypass
actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/request.rb in Ruby on Rails before 3.0.13, 3.1.x before 3.1.5, and 3.2.x before 3.2.4 does not properly consider differences in parameter handling between the Active Record component and the Rack interface, which allows rem…
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Apache Tomcat does not follow ServletSecurity annotations
Apache Tomcat 7.x before 7.0.11, when web.xml has no security constraints, does not follow ServletSecurity annotations, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via HTTP requests to a web application. NOTE: this vulnerability exist…
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Moodle is vulnerable to unauthorized new accounts creation
Moodle 1.8.x and 1.9.x before 1.9.8 can create new roles when restoring a course, which allows teachers to create new accounts even if they do not have the moodle/user:create capability.
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Roundup Improper Access Control
The EditCSVAction function in cgi/actions.py in Roundup 1.2 before 1.2.1, 1.4 through 1.4.6, and possibly other versions does not properly check permissions, which allows remote authenticated users with edit or create privileges for a class to modify arbitrar…
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Joomla! allows attackers to access cached pages
The file caching implementation in Joomla! before 1.5.4 allows attackers to access cached pages via unknown attack vectors.
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JULI logging component in Apache Tomcat does not restrict certain permissions for web applications
The default catalina.policy in the JULI logging component in Apache Tomcat 5.5.9 through 5.5.25 and 6.0.0 through 6.0.15 does not restrict certain permissions for web applications, which allows attackers to modify logging configuration options and overwrite a…
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Alkacon OpenCMS Improper Access Control via system/workplace/views/admin/admin-main.jsp
system/workplace/views/admin/admin-main.jsp in Alkacon OpenCms before 6.2.2 does not restrict access to administrator functions, which allows remote authenticated users to (1) send broadcast messages to all users (/workplace/broadcast), (2) list all users (/a…
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Zope allows attackers to modify raw image and file data
Zope 2.2.0 through 2.2.4 does not properly protect a data updating method on Image and File objects, which allows attackers with DTML editing privileges to modify the raw data of these objects.