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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High 8.3
Insecure direct object references (IDOR) in NightWolf Penetration Platform
Insecure Direct Object References (IDOR) in access control in Customer Portal before 2.1.4 on NightWolf Penetration Testing allows an attacker to access via manipulating request parameters or object references.
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High 8.1
Improper Authorization in BerriAI/litellm
An improper authorization vulnerability exists in the main-latest version of BerriAI/litellm. When a user with the role 'internal_user_viewer' logs into the application, they are provided with an overly privileged API key. This key can be used to access all t…
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High 7.9
The WikiManager REST API allows any user to create wikis
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Prior to 15.10.15, 16.4.6, and 16.10.0, any user can exploit the WikiManager REST API to create a new wiki, where the user could become an administrator and so performs other attacks on the farm. Note that this REST …
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High 7.3
An issue was discovered on the Forvia Hella HELLA Driving Recorder DR 820. Managing Settings and Obtaining Sensitive Da…
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High 7.3
D-Link DIR-823G UPnP Service HNAP1 SetUpnpSettings improper authorization
A vulnerability classified as critical was found in D-Link DIR-823G 1.0.2B05_20181207. Affected by this vulnerability is the function SetUpnpSettings of the file /HNAP1/ of the component UPnP Service. The manipulation of the argument SOAPAction leads to impro…
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High 7.3CVE-2025-2359 EPSS 15%
D-Link DIR-823G DDNS Service HNAP1 SetDDNSSettings improper authorization
A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in D-Link DIR-823G 1.0.2B05_20181207. Affected is the function SetDDNSSettings of the file /HNAP1/ of the component DDNS Service. The manipulation of the argument SOAPAction leads to improper authorization…
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High 7.3
274056675 springboot-openai-chatgpt User submit improper authorization
A vulnerability has been found in 274056675 springboot-openai-chatgpt e84f6f5 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function submit of the file /api/blade-user/submit of the component User Handler. The manipulation leads to imprope…
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High 7.2
Microsoft Dataverse Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Improper authentication in Microsoft Dataverse allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
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High 7.3
pbrong hrms resource.go HrmsDB improper authorization
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in pbrong hrms up to 1.0.1. This affects the function HrmsDB of the file \resource\resource.go. The manipulation of the argument user_cookie leads to improper authorization. It is possible to initia…
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High 7.7
Improper Authorization in Reporting API
This advisory addresses an authorization vulnerability in Mautic's HTTP Basic Authentication implementation. This flaw could allow unauthorized access to sensitive report data. * Improper Authorization: An authorization flaw exists in Mautic's API Authorizati…
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High 7.5CVE-2025-1361 Scanner template
IP2Location Country Blocker <= 2.38.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Information Exposure via admin_init Function
The IP2Location Country Blocker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Regular Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.38.8 due to missing capability checks on the admin_init() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers…
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High 8.0CVE-2025-21400 EPSS 34%
Microsoft SharePoint Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Microsoft SharePoint Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
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High 8.1
Adobe Commerce | Improper Authorization (CWE-285)
Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.8-beta1, 2.4.7-p3, 2.4.6-p8, 2.4.5-p10, 2.4.4-p11 and earlier are affected by an Improper Authorization vulnerability that could result in Privilege escalation. A low-privileged attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass …
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High 8.2
Adobe Commerce | Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863)
Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.8-beta1, 2.4.7-p3, 2.4.6-p8, 2.4.5-p10, 2.4.4-p11 and earlier are affected by an Incorrect Authorization vulnerability that could result in a Security feature bypass. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass security…
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High 7.1
MarbleRun unauthenticated recovery allows Coordinator impersonation
### Impact During recovery, a Coordinator only verifies that a given recovery key decrypts the sealed state, not if this key was provided by a party with access to one of the recovery keys defined in the manifest. This allows an attacker to manually craft a s…
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High 8.1
Single-user-chat <= 0.5 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Options Update
The Single-user-chat plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to a denial of service due to insufficient validation on the 'single_user_chat_update_login' function in all versions up to, and including, 0.5. This ma…
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High 7.5
WooCommerce Wishlist <= 1.8.7 - Unauthenticated Wishlist Disclosure via download_pdf_file Function
The WooCommerce Wishlist (High customization, fast setup,Free Elementor Wishlist, most features) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.7 via the download_pdf_file() function due to mis…
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High 8.7
OpenObserve Improper Authorization Allows Admin User to Remove Root User
OpenObserve is a cloud-native observability platform. A vulnerability in the user management endpoint `/api/{org_id}/users/{email_id}` allows an "Admin" role user to remove a "Root" user from the organization. This violates the intended privilege hierarchy, e…
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High 7.3
Fanli2012 native-php-cms Backend sysconfig_doedit.php improper authorization
A vulnerability was found in Fanli2012 native-php-cms 1.0 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file /fladmin/sysconfig_doedit.php of the component Backend. The manipulation leads to improper authorization. The attack m…
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High 8.7
Gradio Blocked Path ACL Bypass Vulnerability
Gradio is an open-source Python package that allows quick building of demos and web application for machine learning models, API, or any arbitrary Python function. Gradio's Access Control List (ACL) for file paths can be bypassed by altering the letter case o…
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High 7.8
Windows App Package Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows App Package Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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High 7.2
Microsoft SharePoint Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Microsoft SharePoint Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
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High 8.8
tgstation-server's role authorization incorrectly OR'd with user's enabled status
tgstation-server is a production scale tool for BYOND server management. Prior to 6.12.3, roles used to authorize API methods were incorrectly OR'd instead of AND'ed with the role used to determine if a user was enabled. This allows enabled users access to mo…
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High 8.7
Tapir allows DeployKey exposure
Tapir is a private Terraform registry. Tapir versions 0.9.0 and 0.9.1 are facing a critical issue with scope-able Deploykeys where attackers can guess the key to get write access to the registry. User must upgrade to 0.9.2.
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High 7.6
Privilege escalation allows organization groups to be updated/deleted if their UUID is known in vaultwarden
vaultwarden is an unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs. In affected versions an attacker is capable of updating or deleting groups from an organization given a few conditions: 1. The attacker has a user accoun…
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High 7.3
Fujifilm Business Innovation Apeos C3070/Apeos C5570/Apeos C6580 Web Interface index.html#hashHome improper authorization
A vulnerability has been found in Fujifilm Business Innovation Apeos C3070, Apeos C5570 and Apeos C6580 up to 24.8.28 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /home/index.html#hashHome of the component Web Interface. The…
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High 7.5
Authorization bypass in Next.js
Next.js is a React framework for building full-stack web applications. In affected versions if a Next.js application is performing authorization in middleware based on pathname, it was possible for this authorization to be bypassed for pages directly under th…
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High —
Potential Vulnerabilities Due to Outdated golang.org/x/crypto Dependency in NanoProxy
A security issue was identified in the NanoProxy project related to the `golang.org/x/crypto` dependency. The project was using an outdated version of this dependency, which potentially exposed the system to security vulnerabilities that have been addressed i…
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High 7.1
Apache Superset: SQLLab Improper readonly query validation allows unauthorized write access
Improper Authorization vulnerability in Apache Superset. On Postgres analytic databases an attacker with SQLLab access can craft a specially designed SQL DML statement that is Incorrectly identified as a read-only query, enabling its execution. Non postgres a…
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High 7.6
Apache Superset: Lower privilege users are able to create Role when FAB_ADD_SECURITY_API is enabled
Improper Authorization vulnerability in Apache Superset when FAB_ADD_SECURITY_API is enabled (disabled by default). Allows for lower privilege users to use this API. issue affects Apache Superset: from 2.0.0 before 4.1.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to …
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High 7.5
Authentication privilege escalation via user groups due to missing authorization checks
An authenticated user with API access (e.g.: user with default User role), more specifically a user with access to the user.update API endpoint is enough to be able to add themselves to any group (e.g.: Zabbix Administrators), except to groups that are disabl…
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High 7.4
Cri-o: checkpoint restore can be triggered from different namespaces
A vulnerability was found in CRI-O, where it can be requested to take a checkpoint archive of a container and later be asked to restore it. When it does that restoration, it attempts to restore the mounts from the restore archive instead of the pod request. A…
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High 8.8
Booking & Appointment Plugin for WooCommerce <= 6.9.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Option Update
The Booking & Appointment Plugin for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'save_google_calendar_data' function in versions up to, and including, 6.9.0. This makes it possi…
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High 7.4
User permission validation failure and disclosure of P2P preheat execution logs
Harbor fails to validate the user permissions when updating p2p preheat policies. By sending a request to update a p2p preheat policy with an id that belongs to a project that the currently authenticated user doesn't have access to, the attacker could modify …
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High 7.7
Harbor fails to validate the user permissions when updating tag retention policies
Harbor fails to validate the user permissions when updating tag retention policies. By sending a request to update a tag retention policy with an id that belongs to a project that the currently authenticated user doesn’t have access to, the attacker could mo…
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High 7.4
Harbor fails to validate the user permissions when reading and updating job execution logs through the P2P preheat execution logs
Harbor fails to validate user permissions when reading and updating job execution logs through the P2P preheat execution logs. By sending a request that attempts to read/update P2P preheat execution logs and specifying different job IDs, malicious authenticat…
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High 7.7
Harbor fails to validate user permissions while Viewing, updating and deleting Webhook policies
Harbor fails to validate user permissions while deleting Webhook policies, allowing malicious users to view, update and delete Webhook policies of other users. The attacker could modify Webhook policies configured in other projects.
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High 8.0
Restarting a run with revoked script approval allowed by Jenkins Pipeline: Declarative Plugin
Jenkins Pipeline: Declarative Plugin 2.2214.vb_b_34b_2ea_9b_83 and earlier does not check whether the main (Jenkinsfile) script used to restart a build from a specific stage is approved, allowing attackers with Item/Build permission to restart a previous buil…
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High 8.0CVE-2024-52550 Public exploit
Rebuilding a run with revoked script approval allowed by Jenkins Pipeline: Groovy Plugin
Jenkins Pipeline: Groovy Plugin 3990.vd281dd77a_388 and earlier, except 3975.3977.v478dd9e956c3 does not check whether the main (Jenkinsfile) script for a rebuilt build is approved, allowing attackers with Item/Build permission to rebuild a previous build who…
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High 8.7
Kyverno's PolicyException objects can be created in any namespace by default
Kyverno is a policy engine designed for Kubernetes. A kyverno ClusterPolicy, ie. "disallow-privileged-containers," can be overridden by the creation of a PolicyException in a random namespace. By design, PolicyExceptions are consumed from any namespace. Admin…