Weakness (CWE)
CWE-285: Improper Authorization
The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.
How to prevent it (5 mitigations)
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Architecture and Design
Divide the product into anonymous, normal, privileged, and administrative areas. Reduce the attack surface by carefully mapping roles with data and functionality. Use role-based access control (RBAC) to enforce the roles at the appropriate boundaries.
Note that this approach may not protect against horizontal authorization, i.e., it will not protect a user from attacking others with the same role.
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Architecture and Design
Ensure that you perform access control checks related to your business logic. These checks may be different than the access control checks that you apply to more generic resources such as files, connections, processes, memory, and database records. For example, a database may restrict access for medical records to a specific database user, but each record might only be intended to be accessible to the patient and the patient's doctor.
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Architecture and Design
Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
For example, consider using authorization frameworks such as the JAAS Authorization Framework [REF-233] and the OWASP ESAPI Access Control feature [REF-45].
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Architecture and Design
For web applications, make sure that the access control mechanism is enforced correctly at the server side on every page. Users should not be able to access any unauthorized functionality or information by simply requesting direct access to that page.
One way to do this is to ensure that all pages containing sensitive information are not cached, and that all such pages restrict access to requests that are accompanied by an active and authenticated session token associated with a user who has the required permissions to access that page.
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System Configuration, Installation
Use the access control capabilities of your operating system and server environment and define your access control lists accordingly. Use a "default deny" policy when defining these ACLs.
Source: MITRE CWE-285
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Medium 4.3
iomad PDF Certificate lib.php local_iomad_pluginfile authorization
A security flaw has been discovered in iomad up to 4.5.15/5.0.11/5.1.8/5.2.4. Affected by this vulnerability is the function local_iomad_pluginfile in the library public/local/iomad/lib.php of the component PDF Certificate Handler. The manipulation results in…
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Medium 6.3
chenyme grok2api Video Job Retry video.go beginSelectionSession improper authorization
A vulnerability was determined in chenyme grok2api up to 3.1.6. This vulnerability affects the function beginSelectionSession of the file backend/internal/application/gateway/video.go of the component Video Job Retry Handler. This manipulation causes improper…
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Medium 6.5
Vulnerability exists in IBM Netezza Appliance
IBM Netezza Appliance 11.3.0.2 Interim Fix 002 through 11.3.1.3 Interim Fix 006 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to change the passwords of other users due to improper authorization.
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Medium 4.3
xxyopen/201206030 novel Book Chapter Read BookServiceImpl.java getBookChapter authorization
A vulnerability was found in xxyopen/201206030 novel up to 3.5.0. Affected is the function getBookChapter of the file src/main/java/io/github/xxyopen/novel/service/impl/BookServiceImpl.java of the component Book Chapter Read Handler. Performing a manipulation…
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Critical 9.8
OpenHuman allows remote inbound channel messages to create unapproved shell cron jobs leading to host command execution
OpenHuman is an open-source agent harness available as a desktop application and Rust library. Before version 0.57.13, an attacker who can send messages to a configured external channel can cause the agent to create persistent shell cron jobs without human ap…
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Medium 6.1
OpenHuman: Embedded Google Meet webview can silently capture the macOS desktop without a user gesture
OpenHuman is an open-source agent harness available as a desktop application and Rust library. Before 0.56.0 on macOS, the runtime injected into a supported remote account webview such as Google Meet allows page JavaScript to call getDisplayMedia without a li…
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High 7.3
agentscope-ai AgentScope Bash Tool _bash.py check_permissions authorization
A flaw has been found in agentscope-ai AgentScope up to 2.0.8. This affects the function check_permissions of the file src/agentscope/tool/_builtin/_bash.py of the component Bash Tool. This manipulation causes incorrect authorization. Remote exploitation of t…
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High 7.3
6amTech 6valley Social Login Flow existing-account-check existingAccountCheck authorization
A vulnerability was identified in 6amTech 6valley 16.0. Impacted is the function existingAccountCheck of the file /api/v1/auth/existing-account-check of the component Social Login Flow. Such manipulation of the argument user_response leads to authorization by…
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Medium 5.3
Cisco Identity Services Engine Authorization Bypass Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the authorization mechanism of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Cisco ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to obtain an endpoint identity certificate. This vulnerability is due to …
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Medium 4.3
InfiniFlow RAGFlow Text To SQL Retrieval sql.go RunSQL authorization
A security flaw has been discovered in InfiniFlow RAGFlow up to 0.27.2/1.0.0-rc2. This impacts the function RunSQL of the file internal/engine/infinity/sql.go of the component Text To SQL Retrieval. The manipulation of the argument tableName/kbIDs results in …
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Medium 6.3
Sanluan PublicCMS TradePaymentService.java TradePaymentService.pendingRefund authorization
A vulnerability was identified in Sanluan PublicCMS 5. This affects the function TradePaymentService.pendingRefund of the file publiccms-parent/publiccms-trade/src/main/java/com/publiccms/logic/service/trade/TradePaymentService.java. The manipulation of the a…
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Medium 6.5
Umami Record API Endpoint route.ts authorization
A vulnerability has been found in Umami up to 3.4.1. Impacted is an unknown function of the file src/app/api/record/route.ts of the component Record API Endpoint. Such manipulation of the argument Website leads to authorization bypass. The attack may be launc…
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Critical 9.1
node-opcua: Namespace-Level RBAC Fail-Open - Anonymous Write/Call Bypass via Unbound `DefaultRolePermissions
node-opcua is an OPC UA implementation for TypeScript and Node.js. From 2.42.0 until 2.180.0, namespace-level access control configured through setDefaultRolePermissions is not honored by the runtime enforcement path for nodes without explicit per-node RolePe…
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High 8.6
Inadequate authorization vulnerability in Alosuite’s user invitation functionality
Inadequate authorization vulnerability in Alosuite’s user invitation functionality. The ‘/Requests/userInvitation’ endpoint does not properly validate the assignment of privileges on the server, allowing an attacker to manipulate the invitation parameters dur…
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Medium 4.0
In multiple locations, there is a possible permission bypass due to a logic error in the code. This could lead to local…
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Critical 9.4
Broken Access Control via System REST APIs in Multiple WSO2 Products Allows Unauthorized Administrative Actions
The System REST APIs do not correctly enforce access control mechanisms, allowing users with lower privilege roles to execute administrative actions that should be restricted. This weakness permits unauthorized operations on the affected product. Successful e…
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Medium 6.3
Sanluan PublicCMS publiccms-trade TradeRefundService.java TradeRefundService.updateAmound authorization
A vulnerability was found in Sanluan PublicCMS 4.x/5.x/6.x. This affects the function TradeRefundService.updateAmound of the file publiccms-parent/publiccms-trade/src/main/java/com/publiccms/logic/service/trade/TradeRefundService.java of the component publicc…
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Critical 9.9
Oray Pugongying X5 Pro API Authorization run_async_task improper authorization
A security flaw has been discovered in Oray Pugongying X5 Pro up to 7.6.1. Affected is the function run_apis_by_json/run_async_task of the component API Authorization. The manipulation results in improper authorization. The attack can be launched remotely. Th…
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Medium 5.3
Field Collection for Drupal 7 access bypass via missing parent entity access check
Improper Authorization vulnerability in Drupal Field Collection for Drupal 7 allows a user with the "edit field collections" permission to bypass access control on the parent (host) entity. The access check for field collection items (field_collection_item_ac…
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High 8.1
Shopper: missing variant-delete authorization permits destructive single and bulk actions
Shopper is a Headless e-commerce Admin Panel. Prior to 2.10.0, the Variants Livewire component in `packages/admin/src/Livewire/Components/Products/Form/Variants.php` exposes `DeleteAction` and `DeleteBulkAction` without server-side authorization. An authentic…
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Low 3.5
Immich: A regular user can create SharedLink for album/asset belonging to another user through CreateSharedLink API
Immich is a high-performance self-hosted photo and video management solution. Prior to 3.2.0, the shared-link creation API accepted albumId and assetIds as independent fields in server/src/services/shared-link.service.ts but authorized only the resource selec…
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Medium 6.5
ZAC: Missing per-zaaktype authorization on by-ID decision and process reads
ZAC is an open-source, workflow-based Common Ground component for Dutch municipal case management. Prior to 5.2.0, by-id read endpoints in `src/main/kotlin/nl/info/zac/app/zaak/ZaakRestService.kt` omit `assertPolicy`(`policyService.readZaakRechten(zaak).lezen…
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Critical 9.0
Vvveb: Authenticated IDOR on admin/auth-token Allows Admin Privilege Escalation via API Token Theft
Vvveb is a powerful and easy to use CMS with page builder to build websites, blogs or ecommerce stores. Prior to version 1.0.8.7, authenticated IDOR on admin/auth-token endpoint allows any administrator to read and overwrite another administrator's API tokens…
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Low 3.3
An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in Xcode 27.2. An app may be a…
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Medium 6.5
Langflow OSS is affected by multiple vulnerabilities
IBM Langflow OSS 1.0.0 through 1.12.3 could allow an authenticated attacker to cancel any victim's running background workflow job by sending a single HTTP request, resulting in loss of in-progress compute work with no flow-level permission check.
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Medium 5.3
Improper Authorization in BMC ITSM SmartIT Change Approvals
Improper authorization in the SmartIT change approval feature of BMC IT Service Management Suite versions 25.3.01, 25.4.01, and 26.1.01 allows authenticated users to make unauthorized changes to approval state and bypass intended approval restrictions.
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Medium 5.3
Improper Authorization in BMC ITSM SmartIT Attachments
Improper authorization in the SmartIT user attachment feature of BMC IT Service Management Suite versions 25.3.01, 25.4.01, and 26.1.01 allows authenticated users to access or modify attachment resources belonging to other users.
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Medium 5.6
A authorization bypass vulnerability exists in the /api/runscript functionality of FUXA (version(s): 1.3.2-2809). A spe…
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Critical 9.8
A authorization bypass vulnerability exists in the /nodered functionality of FUXA (version(s): 1.3.2-2809). A specially…
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High 8.9
SSO settings authorization bypass
An authenticated user in Grafana can read SSO client secrets and modify instance-wide SSO settings without the required permissions (missing authorization). This affects Grafana OSS and Enterprise 13.2 installations with the experimental kubernetesSsoSettings…
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High 8.8
Shopper: read-only team permissions allow administrator creation and permission escalation
Shopper is a Headless e-commerce Admin Panel. From 2.8.0 until 2.8.1, three Shopper Livewire admin components retain authorization gaps after the earlier team-settings authorization fix. A staff member with only `view_users` and `access_dashboard` can mutate …
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Medium 6.1
MISP Guard Incomplete Tag Validation Allows Non-Allowed Taxonomy Tags to Bypass Feed Policy Enforcement
MISP Guard, a proxy that enforces security policies on MISP feed data, contained an incomplete validation check for required taxonomy tags. When a feed event or its attributes carried tags belonging to a required taxonomy (for example, TLP), the guard only ve…
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Medium 5.3
BUG-000182936 - ArcGIS Server has a security vulnerability.
Esri ArcGIS Server versions 11.3 to 12.0 ONLY allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to update service metadata. A patch is provided for ArcGIS Server software in General Availability and Extended support status, which includes versions 12.0, 11.5, and 11.…
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Medium 6.3
Bdtask Garage 24 Garage Management Software Backend improper authorization
A weakness has been identified in Bdtask Garage 24 Garage Management Software 1.0. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Backend. Executing a manipulation can lead to improper authorization. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit …
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High 7.3
DeepSeek Harness Browser Auth browser-auth.ts improper authorization
A vulnerability was determined in DeepSeek Harness up to 0.2.0-rc.2. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file packages/client/connection/src/browser-auth.ts of the component Browser Auth. This manipulation causes improper authorization. The atta…
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Medium 4.3
iFlytek astron-agent Console Knowledge-List Endpoint FileInfoV2Service.java FileInfoV2Service.listKnowledgeByPage authorization
A vulnerability was identified in iFlytek astron-agent up to 1.1.2. This impacts the function FileInfoV2Service.listKnowledgeByPage of the file FileInfoV2Service.java of the component Console Knowledge-List Endpoint. Such manipulation of the argument space-id…
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Medium 4.3
JIZHICMS Front-end Order OrderController.php pay improper authorization
A vulnerability has been found in JIZHICMS up to 2.5.6. This affects the function Pay of the file app/home/c/OrderController.php of the component Front-end Order Handler. Such manipulation of the argument orderno leads to improper authorization. The attack ca…
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High 8.1
Snipe-IT before 8.6.3 Authentication Bypass via Google SSO Callback
Snipe-IT before 8.6.3 contains an authentication bypass in GoogleAuthController::handleGoogleCallback, which logs in the user whose username matches the Google account email without enforcing the activated flag. Deactivated users with email-shaped usernames a…
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Medium 4.3
Scada-LTS AmCharts Data API AmChartValuesAPI.java HttpServletRequest.getParameter authorization
A flaw has been found in Scada-LTS 2.8.0. Affected by this vulnerability is the function HttpServletRequest.getParameter of the file AmChartValuesAPI.java of the component AmCharts Data API. Executing a manipulation of the argument ids can lead to authorizati…
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High 7.1
obsidian-tc: Declined human-in-the-loop confirmations can permit destructive calls over HTTP
obsidian-tc is a governed, agent-ready Model Context Protocol server for Obsidian vaults. From 1.13.0 until 1.31.4, on a Streamable HTTP deployment with `auth.jwtSecret` configured and a 2026-07-28-era client declaring `elicitation.form` support, a dispatch-g…