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 5.3
Moovit Bus & Public Transit App com.tranzmate improper authorization in handler for custom url scheme
A flaw has been found in Moovit Bus & Public Transit App 1.18 on Android. This affects an unknown part of the component com.tranzmate. Executing a manipulation can lead to improper authorization in handler for custom url scheme. The attack can only be execute…
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Medium 5.3
Nezha Monitoring: Private services (`EnableShowInService: false`) are enumerable via per-server endpoints, leaking name and timing data
Nezha Monitoring is a self-hostable, lightweight, servers and websites monitoring and O&M tool. From version 2.0.0 to before version 2.0.14, private services (`EnableShowInService: false`) are enumerable via per-server endpoints, leaking name and timing data.…
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Medium 6.9
Frappe: IDOR in `submit_discussion()`
Frappe is a full-stack web application framework. Prior to versions 15.107.0 and 16.17.0, lack of validations in the "submit_discussion()" endpoint allows for unauthorized access to resources. This issue has been patched in versions 15.107.0 and 16.17.0.
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Medium 6.3
Dolibarr ERP CRM Legacy Filemanager config.inc.php improper authorization
A vulnerability was identified in Dolibarr ERP CRM up to 23.0.2. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file htdocs/core/filemanagerdol/connectors/php/config.inc.php of the component Legacy Filemanager. The manipulation leads to improper authoriza…
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Medium 5.4
imvks786 student_management_system Student Deletion Endpoint see.php improper authorization
A security vulnerability has been detected in imvks786 student_management_system up to 9599b560ad3c3b83e75d328b76bedcd489ef1f46. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /see.php of the component Student Deletion Endpoint. The ma…
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Medium 6.3
Mohammed-eid35 bank-management-system-springboot Transaction Endpoint TransactionController.java improper authorization
A security vulnerability has been detected in Mohammed-eid35 bank-management-system-springboot up to 7b9bcc65ad7df3db29af71aed9bb500e5f24d948. This affects an unknown part of the file src/main/java/com/alien/bank/management/system/controller/TransactionContro…
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Medium 6.3
SourceCodester Inventory System Account Creation users_handler.php improper authorization
A security flaw has been discovered in SourceCodester Inventory System 1.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /Product_Inventory/api/users_handler.php of the component Account Creation Handler. The manipulation of the argu…
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Medium 5.0
Weaviate Static API Key client.go validateConfig authorization
A vulnerability was identified in Weaviate up to 1.37.7. This vulnerability affects the function validateConfig of the file usecases/auth/authentication/apikey/client.go of the component Static API Key Handler. The manipulation of the argument StaticApiKey le…
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Medium 6.3
Kushan2k student-management-system Profile Update Endpoint AdminController.php edit-admin improper authorization
A security vulnerability has been detected in Kushan2k student-management-system up to f16a4ceaddd6729c4b306ed4641cda3176c1ef2a. Affected by this issue is the function edit-admin of the file controllers/AdminController.php of the component Profile Update Endp…
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Medium 6.3
NousResearch hermes-agent resume Endpoint hermes_state.py resolve_session_by_title authorization
A vulnerability has been found in NousResearch hermes-agent up to 0.12.0. This affects the function resolve_session_by_title of the file hermes_state.py of the component resume Endpoint. Such manipulation of the argument Title leads to authorization bypass. I…
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Medium 6.3
theonedev Pull Request issues canAccessIssue improper authorization
A vulnerability was identified in theonedev onedev up to 15.0.5. This vulnerability affects the function canAccessIssue of the file /issues/ of the component Pull Request Handler. Such manipulation of the argument issue leads to improper authorization. It is …
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Medium 6.3
theonedev REST API default-branch improper authorization
A vulnerability was determined in theonedev onedev up to 15.0.5. This affects an unknown part of the file /repositories/{projectId}/default-branch of the component REST API. This manipulation of the argument project.defaultBranch causes improper authorization…
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Medium 6.3
theonedev Parent Project projects improper authorization
A vulnerability was found in theonedev onedev up to 15.0.5. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /projects/ of the component Parent Project Handler. The manipulation of the argument project.parentId results in improper authorizatio…
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Medium 6.3
theonedev projects improper authorization
A vulnerability has been found in theonedev onedev up to 15.0.5. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /projects. The manipulation of the argument project.forkedFromId leads to improper authorization. The attack is possible to…
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Medium 6.3
tittuvarghese CollegeManagementSystem Admin admin_page.php improper authorization
A vulnerability has been found in tittuvarghese CollegeManagementSystem 3e476335cfbfb9a049e09f474c7ec885f69a9df3/a38852979f7e27ae67b610dce5979500ef8ebe01. Affected is an unknown function of the file dashboard_page/admin_page.php of the component Admin Interfa…
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Medium 6.3
SourceCodester Ship Ferry Ticket Reservation System admin improper authorization
A weakness has been identified in SourceCodester Ship Ferry Ticket Reservation System 1.0. This affects an unknown function of the file /admin/. This manipulation of the argument page causes improper authorization. Remote exploitation of the attack is possibl…
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Medium 6.3
SourceCodester Online Boat Reservation System Administrative Endpoint improper authorization
A security vulnerability has been detected in SourceCodester Online Boat Reservation System 1.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Administrative Endpoint. The manipulation leads to improper authorization. The attack …
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Medium 4.3
Apache Kafka: Improper Authorization in CONSUMER_GROUP_DESCRIBE API
An improper authorization vulnerability has been identified in Apache Kafka. The implementation of the CONSUMER_GROUP_DESCRIBE (69) API validates the DESCRIBE operation on the GROUP resource instead of the READ operation that documented in the official kafka …
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Medium 4.3
PackageKit API pk-transaction.c g_file_test improper authorization
A vulnerability has been found in PackageKit up to 1.3.5. Affected is the function g_file_test of the file src/pk-transaction.c of the component API. Such manipulation of the argument frontend-socket leads to improper authorization. The attack can be executed…
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Medium 5.4
DevaslanPHP project-management Ticket KanbanScrumHelper.php recordUpdated improper authorization
A vulnerability has been found in DevaslanPHP project-management up to 2.0.0-beta1. Affected by this issue is the function KanbanScrumHelper::recordUpdated of the file app/Helpers/KanbanScrumHelper.php of the component Ticket Handler. The manipulation leads t…
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Medium 5.4
DevaslanPHP project-management Livewire ViewTicket.php doDeleteComment improper authorization
A flaw has been found in DevaslanPHP project-management up to 2.0.0-beta1. Affected by this vulnerability is the function editComment/doDeleteComment of the file app/Filament/Resources/TicketResource/Pages/ViewTicket.php of the component Livewire Handler. Exe…
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Medium 4.3
Bottelet DaybydayCRM DocumentsController.php view improper authorization
A security vulnerability has been detected in Bottelet DaybydayCRM up to 2.2.1. This impacts the function view of the file app/Http/Controllers/DocumentsController.php. Such manipulation leads to improper authorization. The attack may be launched remotely. It…
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Medium 6.5
Nextcloud: Authorization bypass in approval feature allows unauthorized file sharing with approvers
Nextcloud is an open source content collaboration platform. Prior to version 2.7.2, a privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Approval app that allows a user without sharing permissions to force the system to share a file with approvers. This results…
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Medium 6.5
a4m4 Student-Management-System deleteform.php improper authorization
A vulnerability has been found in a4m4 Student-Management-System up to f0c5f6842c5e8c431ff02b5260a565ca844df3a0. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file admin/deleteform.php. Such manipulation of the argument sid leads to improper authorizatio…
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Medium 6.3
decolua 9router HTTP Header dashboardGuard.js isAuthenticated improper authorization
A security vulnerability has been detected in decolua 9router up to 0.4.0. This issue affects the function isAuthenticated of the file src/dashboardGuard.js of the component HTTP Header Handler. The manipulation of the argument Host leads to improper authoriz…
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Medium 4.3
Apache ActiveMQ Broker, Apache ActiveMQ All, Apache ActiveMQ: Incomplete authorization during destination removal
Incomplete authorization by Apache ActiveMQ server before versions v6.2.6 and v5.19.7 allows authenticated connections to remove existing destinations with proper permissions. This issue affects Apache ActiveMQ Broker: before 5.19.7, from 6.0.0 before 6.2.6; …
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Medium 5.4
nextlevelbuilder GoClaw evolution_handlers.go auth improper authorization
A vulnerability has been found in nextlevelbuilder GoClaw up to 3.11.3. This affects the function auth of the file internal/http/evolution_handlers.go. Such manipulation leads to improper authorization. The attack can be executed remotely. The exploit has bee…
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Medium 4.3
Dolibarr ERP CRM Leave Request REST API api_holidays.class.php checkUserAccessToObject improper authorization
A security vulnerability has been detected in Dolibarr ERP CRM up to 23.0.1. Impacted is the function checkUserAccessToObject of the file htdocs/holiday/class/api_holidays.class.php of the component Leave Request REST API. The manipulation leads to improper a…
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Medium 6.3
AstrBotDevs AstrBot astr_main_agent.py astr_main_agent authorization
A vulnerability was identified in AstrBotDevs AstrBot 4.24.2. This affects the function astr_main_agent of the file astrbot/core/astr_main_agent.py. Such manipulation of the argument session_id leads to authorization bypass. It is possible to launch the attac…
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Medium 6.3
AstrBotDevs AstrBot fs.py _normalize_rw_path authorization
A vulnerability was determined in AstrBotDevs AstrBot 4.23.6. Affected by this issue is the function _normalize_rw_path of the file astrbot/core/tools/computer_tools/fs.py. This manipulation causes incorrect authorization. It is possible to initiate the attac…
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Medium 4.3
Dolibarr ERP CRM messaging.php authorization
A vulnerability has been found in Dolibarr ERP CRM 23.0.0/23.0.1/23.0.2. The affected element is an unknown function of the file htdocs/user/messaging.php. Such manipulation of the argument ID leads to authorization bypass. The attack can be executed remotely…
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Medium 4.3
FreeScout: Thread Edit Authorization Bypass via Missing Mailbox Check
FreeScout is a free help desk and shared inbox built with PHP's Laravel framework. Prior to 1.8.221, while investigating the ThreadPolicy::delete issue reported previously, the same missing mailbox membership check was found in the sibling ThreadPolicy::edit …
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Medium 4.7
macrozheng mall Super Admin Password update improper authorization
A vulnerability was found in macrozheng mall up to 1.0.3. This affects an unknown function of the file /admin/update/ of the component Super Admin Password Handler. Performing a manipulation results in improper authorization. Remote exploitation of the attack…
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Medium 5.3
AVideo CVE-2026-43881 incomplete fix - `objects/mention.json.php:17` is an unauthenticated user enumeration
WWBN AVideo is an open source video platform. In 29.0 and earlier, objects/mention.json.php has no User::loginCheck() or admin gate. It only has an entry guard: preg_match('/^@/', $_REQUEST['term']) and hard-coded rowCount=10. This enables unauthenticated use…
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Medium 5.3
Cross-tenant IDOR on feature-flag and assist-stats routes via {project_id} case mismatch
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Medium 4.8
Hono: JWT middleware accepts any Authorization scheme, not only Bearer
Hono is a Web application framework that provides support for any JavaScript runtime. Prior to 4.12.21, the jwt and jwk middlewares do not verify that the Authorization header value uses theBearer scheme. Any two-part header value — regardless of the scheme n…
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Medium 6.5
IBM® Db2® is vulnerable to authorization bypass when uploading to a remote object storage path with a special query
IBM Db2 12.1.0 through 12.1.4 is vulnerable to authorization bypass when uploading to a remote object storage path with a special query.
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Medium 5.5
SpSoft AppLock (com.sp.protector.free) 7.9.40 for Android allows a local attacker with physical access to bypass finger…
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Medium 5.5
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Medium 6.5
e107: CSRF in comment.php moderation endpoints via token-optional validation in session_handler::check()
e107 is a content management system (CMS). Prior to 2.3.5, e107 CMS does not properly enforce CSRF token validation on comment moderation actions. The problem comes down to how session_handler::check() handles CSRF tokens. Instead of requiring a token on ever…