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
1,892 results · Feed
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Medium 4.3
Adobe Commerce | Improper Authorization (CWE-285)
Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.9-beta1, 2.4.8-p4, 2.4.7-p9, 2.4.6-p14, 2.4.5-p16, 2.4.4-p17 and earlier are affected by an Improper Authorization vulnerability that could result in a Security feature bypass. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypas…
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Critical 9.1CVE-2026-43515 Public exploit
Apache Tomcat: Security constraints not correctly applied
Improper Authorization vulnerability when multiple method constraints define an HTTP method for the same extension in Apache Tomcat. This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.21, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.54, from 9.0.0.M1 through 9.0.11…
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High 8.5
Pocket ID: OIDC refresh token flow bypasses authorization revocation, account disabling, and group restrictions
Pocket ID is an OIDC provider that allows users to authenticate with their passkeys to your services. Prior to 2.6.0, The createTokenFromRefreshToken function (oidc_service.go) validates the refresh token's cryptographic integrity but does not re-validate the…
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High 8.7
Vaultwarden: Cross-Org Group Binding Enables Unauthorized Read And Write Access Into Another Organization
Vaultwarden is a Bitwarden-compatible server written in Rust. Prior to 1.35.5, Vaultwarden does not enforce that a groups_users.users_organizations_uuid entry belongs to the same organization as groups.groups_uuid, or a collections_groups.collections_uuid ent…
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Medium 4.9
External Secrets Operator: Privilege escalation with secret overwriting
External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service and automatically injects the values as Kubernetes Secrets. Prior to 2.4.1, a user who only has permission to create ExternalSecret resources can cause the operator to create a Secret that…
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Medium 5.3
External Secrets Operator: Namespace Isolation Bypass in CAProvider ConfigMap Resolution for SecretStore
External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service and automatically injects the values as Kubernetes Secrets. Prior to 2.4.0, Namespaced SecretStore resources that used CAProvider with type ConfigMap could resolve CA material from another…
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High 7.1
OpenClaw < 2026.4.20 - Gateway Config Mutation Guard Bypass via Agent Tool Access
OpenClaw before 2026.4.20 contains a guard bypass vulnerability in the agent-facing gateway config.patch and config.apply endpoints that fails to protect operator-trusted settings including sandbox policy, plugin enablement, gateway auth/TLS, hook routing, MC…
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High 8.1
Grav: Administrative Account Disruption and Privilege De-escalation via User Overwrite Logic
Grav is a file-based Web platform. Prior to 2.0.0-beta.2, a business logic vulnerability in the Grav Admin Panel allows a low-privileged user (with only user creation permissions) to overwrite existing accounts, including the primary administrator. By creatin…
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Medium 5.3
Industrial Application Software IAS Canias ERP RMI iasGetServerInfoEvent improper authorization
A vulnerability has been found in Industrial Application Software IAS Canias ERP 8.03. The affected element is the function iasGetServerInfoEvent of the component RMI Interface. Such manipulation leads to improper authorization. The attack can be executed rem…
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Low 3.7CVE-2026-8196 Public exploit
JeecgBoot mLogin Endpoint LoginController.java authorization
A flaw has been found in JeecgBoot 3.9.1. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file jeecg-module-system/jeecg-system-biz/src/main/java/org/jeecg/modules/system/controller/LoginController.java of the component mLogin Endpoint. This manipulation c…
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Medium 6.5
nova-toggle-5: Improper authorization on toggle endpoint allowed non-Nova users to modify boolean fields
nova-toggle-5 enables fliping booleans in the index. Prior to version 1.3.0, the toggle endpoint (POST/nova-vendor/nova-toggle/toggle/{resource}/{resourceId}) was protected only by web + auth:<guard> middleware. Any user authenticated on the configured guard …
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Critical 9.6
Microsoft Team Events Portal Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Improper authorization in Microsoft Teams allows an authorized attacker to disclose information over a network.
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High 8.8
The Optoma CinemaX P2 projector (firmware TVOS-04.24.010.04.01, Android 8.0.0) exposes Android Debug Bridge (ADB) on TC…
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Critical 9.8
The Optoma CinemaX P2 projector (firmware TVOS-04.24.010.04.01, Android 8.0.0) exposes an HTTP API on TCP port 2345 tha…
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Medium 4.3
FlowiseAI Flowise User Controller authorization
A weakness has been identified in FlowiseAI Flowise up to 3.0.12. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component User Controller Handler. This manipulation of the argument userId/organizationId/workspaceId/email causes authorizati…
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Medium 6.3
CodeCanyon Perfex CRM Tenant Clients.php project authorization
A vulnerability was detected in CodeCanyon Perfex CRM up to 3.4.1. This affects the function Clients::project of the file application/controllers/Clients.php of the component Tenant Handler. The manipulation of the argument ID results in authorization bypass.…
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Medium 5.3
Note Mark: Unauthenticated read of notes and assets in soft-deleted public books
Note Mark is an open-source note-taking application. Prior to version 0.19.3, after a note-mark owner soft-deletes a public book, its notes and uploaded assets stay readable at /api/notes/{id}, /api/notes/{id}/content, the slug URL, and the asset endpoints. U…
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Medium 6.3
crocodilestick Calibre-Web-Automated Kobo auth-token Route kobo_auth.py generate_auth_token improper authorization
A vulnerability was detected in crocodilestick Calibre-Web-Automated up to 4.0.6. Affected by this vulnerability is the function generate_auth_token of the file cps/kobo_auth.py of the component Kobo auth-token Route. The manipulation results in improper auth…
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Medium 6.3
janeczku Calibre-Web Endpoint kobo_auth.py generate_auth_token improper authorization
A vulnerability was identified in janeczku Calibre-Web up to 0.6.26. The impacted element is the function generate_auth_token of the file cps/kobo_auth.py of the component Endpoint. Such manipulation of the argument user_id leads to improper authorization. Th…
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Medium 5.3
toeverything AFFiNE Public Markdown Preview Endpoint :docId allowDocPreview authorization
A vulnerability was detected in toeverything AFFiNE up to 0.26.3. This issue affects the function allowDocPreview of the file /workspace/:workspaceId/:docId of the component Public Markdown Preview Endpoint. The manipulation results in authorization bypass. I…
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Medium 6.5
jsbroks COCO Annotator Dataset API datasets.py authorization
A security vulnerability has been detected in jsbroks COCO Annotator up to 0.11.1. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file backend/webserver/api/datasets.py of the component Dataset API. The manipulation of the argument DatasetI…
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High 7.3
ChatGPTNextWeb NextChat actions.ts addMcpServer improper authorization
A vulnerability has been found in ChatGPTNextWeb NextChat up to 2.16.1. Affected is the function addMcpServer of the file app/mcp/actions.ts. The manipulation leads to improper authorization. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. The exploit has been…
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Medium 5.4
code-projects Online Hospital Management System Registration improper authorization
A vulnerability was found in code-projects Online Hospital Management System 1.0. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Registration Handler. The manipulation of the argument Username results in improper authorization. The attack can be…
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Medium 5.3
Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia <= 2.1.2 - Unauthenticated Authorization Bypass via Remote Approval Endpoint
The Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Improper Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.2. This is due to a logical short-circuit flaw in authorization logic that causes token validation…
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Medium 6.3
JeecgBoot FillRuleUtil edit improper authorization
A vulnerability was found in JeecgBoot up to 3.9.1. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /sys/fillRule/edit of the component FillRuleUtil Component. The manipulation of the argument ruleClass results in improper authorization…
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Medium 6.3
OWAP DefectDojo Benchmark/Engagement/Product/Survey authorization
A vulnerability was determined in OWAP DefectDojo up to 2.55.4. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Benchmark/Engagement/Product/Survey. Executing a manipulation can lead to authorization bypass. The attack can be execu…
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High 7.3
nextlevelbuilder GoClaw/GoClaw Lite RPC improper authorization
A flaw has been found in nextlevelbuilder GoClaw and GoClaw Lite up to 3.8.5. This affects an unknown function of the component RPC Handler. This manipulation causes improper authorization. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploit has been published …
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Medium 5.4
LinkStackOrg LinkStack Management Endpoint UserController.php saveLink authorization
A security vulnerability has been detected in LinkStackOrg LinkStack up to 4.8.6. The affected element is the function saveLink of the file app/Http/Controllers/UserController.php of the component Management Endpoint. The manipulation leads to authorization b…
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High 7.5
Otter Blocks <= 3.1.4 - Improper Authorization to Unauthenticated Purchase Verification Bypass via Forged Cookie
The Otter Blocks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Purchase Verification Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.4. This is due to the 'get_customer_data' method relying on an unsigned 'o_stripe_data' cookie to determine Stripe product ownership …
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Medium 6.5
OpenClaw < 2026.3.28 - Authorization Bypass in /phone arm and /phone disarm Endpoints
OpenClaw before 2026.3.28 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability in the /phone arm and /phone disarm endpoints that fails to properly enforce operator.admin scope checks for external channels. Attackers can bypass authentication restrictions to arm or…
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Medium 5.6
o2oa NodeAgent NodeAgent.java syncFile improper authorization
A security vulnerability has been detected in o2oa up to 10.0. This impacts the function syncFile of the file NodeAgent.java of the component NodeAgent. The manipulation leads to improper authorization. The attack can be initiated remotely. The complexity of …
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High 8.5
Multiple vulnerabilities in MphRx's Minerva
An authorization vulnerability in MphRx's Minerva V3.6.0, specifically in the '/minerva/moUser/update' endpoint, could allow an authenticated user with user modification privileges to escalate their privileges by sending an HTTP request with a manipulated 'id…
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Medium 5.4
mettle sendportal Invitation WorkspaceInvitationsController.php destroy authorization
A weakness has been identified in mettle sendportal up to 3.0.1. Affected is the function destroy of the file app/Http/Controllers/Workspaces/WorkspaceInvitationsController.php of the component Invitation Handler. This manipulation of the argument invitation …
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Medium 4.3
1000 Projects Portfolio Management System MCA update_passwd_process.php authorization
A security flaw has been discovered in 1000 Projects Portfolio Management System MCA 1.0. This impacts an unknown function of the file update_passwd_process.php. The manipulation of the argument temp_user results in authorization bypass. The attack can be lau…
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Medium 6.3
Wooey API Endpoint scripts.py add_or_update_script improper authorization
A vulnerability was determined in Wooey up to 0.13.2. The impacted element is the function add_or_update_script of the file wooey/api/scripts.py of the component API Endpoint. Executing a manipulation can lead to improper authorization. It is possible to laun…
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Medium 5.3
code-projects Invoice System in Laravel API Endpoint item improper authorization
A vulnerability was detected in code-projects Invoice System in Laravel 1.0. This impacts an unknown function of the file /item of the component API Endpoint. Performing a manipulation results in improper authorization. It is possible to initiate the attack r…
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Medium 6.3
code-projects Invoice System in Laravel Invoice Endpoint invoice improper authorization
A vulnerability was found in code-projects Invoice System in Laravel 1.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /invoice/ of the component Invoice Endpoint. Performing a manipulation of the argument ID results in improper auth…
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Medium 6.3
code-projects Invoice System in Laravel Profile profile improper authorization
A vulnerability has been found in code-projects Invoice System in Laravel 1.0. Affected is an unknown function of the file /profile/ of the component Profile Handler. Such manipulation of the argument ID leads to improper authorization. The attack can be exec…
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Medium 6.3
code-projects Invoice System in Laravel User Management user improper authorization
A flaw has been found in code-projects Invoice System in Laravel 1.0. This impacts an unknown function of the file /user of the component User Management Handler. This manipulation causes improper authorization. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. …
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High 7.3
vanna-ai vanna Legacy Flask API improper authorization
A security vulnerability has been detected in vanna-ai vanna up to 2.0.2. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Legacy Flask API. The manipulation leads to improper authorization. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The expl…