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
Eleveo Call Recording Software sendlogfile improper authorization
A vulnerability was determined in Eleveo Call Recording Software 9.7.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /callrec/sendlogfile. This manipulation causes improper authorization. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exp…
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Medium 6.3
Eleveo Call Recording Software statisticReportAction.do improper authorization
A vulnerability was found in Eleveo Call Recording Software 9.7.0. Affected is an unknown function of the file /callrec/statisticReportAction.do. The manipulation results in improper authorization. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit has been mad…
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Medium 4.3
Eleveo Call Recording Software LDAP User users_ldap.jsp improper authorization
A vulnerability has been found in Eleveo Call Recording Software 9.7.0. This impacts an unknown function of the file /callrec/users_ldap.jsp of the component LDAP User Interface. The manipulation leads to improper authorization. The attack can be initiated re…
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Medium 6.3
Eleveo Call Recording Software Group roleAddAction.do improper authorization
A flaw has been found in Eleveo Call Recording Software 9.7.0. This affects an unknown function of the file /callrec/roleAddAction.do of the component Group Interface. Executing a manipulation can lead to improper authorization. It is possible to launch the a…
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Medium 6.3
Eleveo Call Recording Software userAddAction.do improper authorization
A vulnerability was detected in Eleveo Call Recording Software 9.7.0. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file /callrec/userAddAction.do. Performing a manipulation of the argument role results in improper authorization. It is possible to initia…
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Medium 6.3
Sipeed PicoClaw MQTT Channel mqtt.go authorization
A weakness has been identified in Sipeed PicoClaw up to 0.2.9. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file pkg/channels/mqtt/mqtt.go of the component MQTT Channel Handler. This manipulation of the argument client_id causes incorrect autho…
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Medium 6.3
mettle sendportal Campaign Creation Endpoint CampaignStoreRequest.php authorization
A flaw has been found in mettle sendportal up to 3.0.1. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file vendor/mettle/sendportal-core/src/Http/Requests/CampaignStoreRequest.php of the component Campaign Creation Endpoint. Executing a manipulation can lead…
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Medium 6.5
NATS Server: Subscribe Authz Bypass via Wildcard-Overlap
NATS Server is a high-performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system. Prior to 2.14.0, 2.12.7, and 2.11.16, an authenticated user could receive messages on denied subjects when a wildcard subscription overlapped with a configured w…
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Medium 6.5
NATS Server: Queue Subscribe Authz Bypass
NATS Server is a high-performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system. Prior to 2.14.0, 2.12.7, and 2.11.16, an authenticated user with subscription deny permissions could bypass a plain subject deny rule by using a queue subscripti…
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Medium 4.3
Harness gitspaces Endpoint list_all.go getAuthorizedSpaces authorization
A vulnerability was determined in Harness up to 2.28.2. This vulnerability affects the function getAuthorizedSpaces of the file app/api/controller/gitspace/list_all.go of the component gitspaces Endpoint. Executing a manipulation can lead to authorization byp…
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Medium 5.4
Capgo - Stale Cross-Organization Authorization via Incomplete deploy_history Update in transfer_app()
Capgo before 12.128.2 contains an authorization flaw in transfer_app() that fails to update deploy_history.owner_org when transferring applications between organizations. Attackers can exploit this omission to retain unauthorized access to deployment history …
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Medium 4.3
Actual: Missing authorization on GET /secret/:name allows non-admin OpenID users to enumerate admin-configured bank-sync secrets
Actual is a local-first personal finance tool. Prior to 26.6.0, the GET /secret/:name endpoint in @actual-app/sync-server checks only that the caller has a valid session and does not verify the caller is an admin, while the sibling POST /secret/ handler enfor…
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Medium 5.5
OP-TEE's subkey rollback protection can be bypassed with older subkey versions
OP-TEE is a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) designed as companion to a non-secure Linux kernel running on Arm; Cortex-A cores using the TrustZone technology. Starting in version 3.20.0 and prior to version 4.11.0, a vulnerability in OP-TEE’s subkey rollba…
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Medium 4.3
Craft CMS Charts Endpoint ChartsController.php actionGetNewUsersData improper authorization
A flaw has been found in Craft CMS up to 4.18.0.1. Affected by this vulnerability is the function actionGetNewUsersData of the file src/controllers/ChartsController.php of the component Charts Endpoint. This manipulation of the argument userGroupId causes imp…
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Medium 4.3
Craft CMS reorder-sets Endpoint GlobalsController.php actionReorderSets authorization
A vulnerability was detected in Craft CMS up to 4.18.0.1. Affected is the function actionReorderSets of the file src/controllers/GlobalsController.php of the component reorder-sets Endpoint. The manipulation results in authorization bypass. The attack can be …
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Medium 6.3
nextlevelbuilder GoClaw WebSocket RPC router.go MethodRouter.Handle authorization
A security vulnerability has been detected in nextlevelbuilder GoClaw up to 3.13.0-beta.2. Impacted is the function MethodRouter.Handle of the file internal/gateway/router.go of the component WebSocket RPC Handler. Such manipulation leads to incorrect authori…
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Medium 5.4
SourceCodester Multi-Vendor Online Grocery Management System Master.php cancel_order improper authorization
A flaw has been found in SourceCodester Multi-Vendor Online Grocery Management System 1.0. Affected by this vulnerability is the function cancel_order of the file classes/Master.php. Executing a manipulation can lead to improper authorization. The attack may …
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Medium 4.3
SourceCodester CET Automated Grading System with AI Predictive Analytics POST index.php view_student authorization
A security vulnerability has been detected in SourceCodester CET Automated Grading System with AI Predictive Analytics 1.0. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /index.php?action=view_student of the component POST Handler. The manipulation of t…
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Medium 6.3
n8n - SSO Enforcement Bypass via API
n8n before 2.8.0 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability allowing authenticated SSO users to disable SSO enforcement through the API. Attackers can create local password credentials to authenticate directly, bypassing organizational SSO policies and i…
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Medium 6.5
Apache Tomcat: Security constraints for default servlet ignored method
Improper Authorization vulnerability in Apache Tomcat leads to security constraints specified for the default servlet ignoring any method or method omission configured as part of the constraint. This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.22…
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Medium 5.0
DeepMyst Mysti Contact Tracking ChannelBridge.ts _isTrackedConversation improper authorization
A weakness has been identified in DeepMyst Mysti 0.4.0. Affected is the function _isTrackedConversation of the file src/managers/ChannelBridge.ts of the component Contact Tracking. This manipulation of the argument _channelType causes improper authorization. …
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Medium 5.4
CodeAstro Complaint Management System Report Endpoint Report.php deletereport authorization
A security flaw has been discovered in CodeAstro Complaint Management System 1.0. The affected element is the function deletereport of the file application/controllers/Report.php of the component Report Endpoint. The manipulation results in authorization bypa…
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Medium 5.0
CherryHQ cherry-studio CherryIN Preload API MemoryService.ts sha256 authorization
A vulnerability was detected in CherryHQ cherry-studio up to 1.9.7. This affects the function sha256 of the file src/main/services/memory/MemoryService.ts of the component CherryIN Preload API. Performing a manipulation of the argument state results in author…
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Medium 5.6
CherryHQ cherry-studio MCP OAuth Local Callback Server callback.ts improper authorization
A security vulnerability has been detected in CherryHQ cherry-studio up to 1.9.6. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file src/main/services/mcp/oauth/callback.ts of the component MCP OAuth Local Callback Server. The manipulation of the argument co…
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Medium 6.3
Databend Tenant client_session_manager.rs state_key authorization
A vulnerability was identified in Databend up to 1.2.881 on HTTP. This affects the function ClientSessionManager::state_key of the file src/query/service/src/servers/http/v1/session/client_session_manager.rs of the component Tenant Handler. The manipulation l…
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Medium 5.5
khoj-ai khoj Conversation Sharing api_chat.py authorization
A flaw has been found in khoj-ai khoj up to 2.0.0-beta.28. This impacts an unknown function of the file src/khoj/routers/api_chat.py of the component Conversation Sharing Handler. This manipulation of the argument conversation.agent causes incorrect authoriza…
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Medium 6.7
Rocket.Chat: Livechat Visitor Profile Disclosure Leaks Bearer Token and Enables Visitor Impersonation
Rocket.Chat is an open-source, secure, fully customizable communications platform. Prior to 8.5.0, 8.4.2, 8.3.4, 8.2.4, 8.1.5, 8.0.6, 7.13.8, and 7.10.12, in the visitors.info endpoint, https://developer.rocket.chat/apidocs/get-visitor-information-by-id-1, to…
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Medium 4.3
Cap-go - Authorization Bypass in Organization Members Endpoint via API Key Scope Bypass
Cap-go before 12.128.2 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability in the GET /organization/members endpoint that allows org-limited API keys to bypass limited_to_orgs restrictions. Attackers with org-limited API keys can read membership data including uid…
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Medium 5.8CVE-2026-46552 Public exploit
NocoDB: Shared-base link access can invite arbitrary users as persistent base members
NocoDB is software for building databases as spreadsheets. Prior to 2026.04.1, shared-base sessions were granted the same base-member capabilities as authenticated viewers. Using only the shared-base UUID (xc-shared-base-id), an attacker could enumerate base …
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Medium 5.3
Capgo - Unauthenticated Cross-Tenant Disclosure via get_current_plan_max_org RPC
Capgo before 12.128.2 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability in the public.get_current_plan_max_org RPC function that allows unauthenticated attackers to retrieve arbitrary organization plan limits. Attackers can call the RPC endpoint with any organiz…
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Medium 4.3
BerriAI litellm Incomplete Fix CVE-2025-0628 internal_user_endpoints.py ui_view_users improper authorization
A security vulnerability has been detected in BerriAI litellm up to 1.82.2. Affected by this issue is the function ui_view_users of the file litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/internal_user_endpoints.py of the component Incomplete Fix CVE-2025-0628. Such mani…
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Medium 6.3
BerriAI litellm Completions banned_keywords.py async_pre_call_hook authorization
A security flaw has been discovered in BerriAI litellm up to 1.82.5. Affected is the function async_pre_call_hook of the file enterprise/enterprise_hooks/banned_keywords.py of the component Completions Interface. The manipulation of the argument prompt result…
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Medium 5.0
BerriAI litellm M2M JWT user_api_key_auth.py improper authorization
A vulnerability was identified in BerriAI litellm up to 1.82.2. This affects an unknown function of the file litellm/proxy/auth/user_api_key_auth.py of the component M2M JWT Handler. Such manipulation leads to improper authorization. The attack can be launche…
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Medium 5.4
BerriAI litellm Admin Key key_management_endpoints.py improper authorization
A vulnerability was determined in BerriAI litellm up to 1.63.1. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/key_management_endpoints.py of the component Admin Key Handler. This manipulation causes improper author…
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Medium 6.3
Capgo - Policy Enforcement Bypass in Webhook Management Endpoints via Non-Expiring API Keys
Capgo before 12.128.2 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability in webhook management endpoints that allows non-expiring API keys to bypass the require_apikey_expiration organization policy. The checkWebhookPermission function fails to call apikeyHasOrgR…
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Medium 5.9
Liquidfiles versions before 4.2.12 are affected by a broken access control vulnerability resulting in privilege escalat…
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Medium 6.5
Steeltoe's sensitive actuators (heapdump/env) only require Restricted permission
Steeltoe is an open source project that provides a collection of libraries that helps users build cloud-native applications. In Steeltoe.Management.Endpoint prior to version 4.2.0 and Steeltoe.Management.EndpointCore prior to version 3.4.0, all Steeltoe actua…
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Medium 5.3
OpenClaw < 2026.5.12 - Slack Reaction Event Notification Bypass
OpenClaw before 2026.5.12 contains a notification bypass vulnerability allowing Slack reaction events to enter the agent pipeline despite disabled reaction notifications. Attackers can trigger unintended agent processing by sending reaction events when the fe…
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Medium 4.3
hcengineering Huly Platform User Information operations.ts getAccountInfo improper authorization
A vulnerability was found in hcengineering Huly Platform up to 0.7.0. Affected by this vulnerability is the function getAccountInfo of the file server/account/src/operations.ts of the component User Information Handler. The manipulation results in improper au…
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Medium 5.3
Genspark AI Workspace App ai.mainfunc.genspark improper authorization in handler for custom url scheme
A vulnerability has been found in Genspark AI Workspace App 2.8.4 on Android. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component ai.mainfunc.genspark. The manipulation leads to improper authorization in handler for custom url scheme. The attack can only…