Weakness (CWE)
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
The product does not perform 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) [REF-229] 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 access control checks are performed related to the business logic. These checks may be different than the access control checks that are applied 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 [REF-7].
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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-862
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Medium 5.3
WordPress Modula Image Gallery plugin <= 3.0.11 - Sensitive Data Exposure vulnerability
Missing Authorization vulnerability in WP Chill Modula Image Gallery modula-best-grid-gallery allows Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data.This issue affects Modula Image Gallery: from n/a through 3.0.11.
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Medium 4.3
WordPress Hustle plugin <= 7.8.14.2 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Missing Authorization vulnerability in WPMU DEV Hustle wordpress-popup allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Hustle: from n/a through 7.8.14.2.
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Medium 6.1
This vulnerability in Veeam Backup & Replication allows a Backup Viewer to modify the Enterprise Manager master key and…
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Medium 6.8
This vulnerability in Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows allows any local user to terminate arbitrary processes on the s…
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Medium 5.9
Integration for Epos Now and WooCommerce 4.6.0 - 4.11.1 - Unauthenticated Action Scheduler Queue Disclosure
The Integration for Epos Now and WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 4.11.2 does not perform an authorization check on one of its REST endpoints, allowing unauthenticated users to retrieve the site's scheduled background tasks and their arguments, which inclu…
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Medium 6.3
wolfSSH SSH client accepts unsolicited forwarded-tcpip channel opens without an authorization check
In wolfSSH through 1.5.0 built with --enable-fwd, DoChannelOpen() in src/internal.c gates only direct-tcpip channel opens with the forwarding policy callback. forwarded-tcpip opens are admitted without an authorization check and are not capped in number, allo…
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Medium 6.5
Backstage: Improper authorization enforcement for TechDocs static content
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals. Prior to 2.2.4, the @backstage/plugin-techdocs-backend package is affected by improper authorization enforcement for techdocs static content. An authenticated user with access to one TechDocs docu…
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Medium 4.3
Missing Authorization in Kibana Leading to Information Disclosure
Missing Authorization (CWE-862) in Kibana can lead to information disclosure via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). An internal API surface within the Metrics Experience feature did not enforce a Kibana-level authorization che…
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Medium 6.0
Missing authorization in GitHub Enterprise Server allowed repository writers to replace default branches via GraphQL
A missing authorization vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed a repository collaborator with write access to delete the current default branch through the GraphQL API and cause an attacker-controlled branch to become the new de…
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Medium 5.3
Missing authorization in Media in Google Chrome on on Windows prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker who had …
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Medium 5.4
Missing authorization in Browser in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker leveraging social en…
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Medium 6.5
Missing authorization in Network in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker leveraging social en…
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Medium 5.4
Missing authorization in Web Authentication (Passkeys & Security Keys) in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed …
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Medium 6.5
Missing authorization in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker leveraging social e…
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Medium 4.2
Missing authorization in Permissions in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker who had compromi…
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Medium 6.5
Missing authorization in SignIn in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker leveraging social eng…
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Medium 5.4
Missing authorization in Permissions in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker who had compromi…
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Medium 5.4
Missing authorization in Actor in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker leveraging social engi…
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Medium 4.6
Missing authorization in CredentialProvider in Google Chrome on on Windows prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a local attac…
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Medium 6.5
Missing authorization in SiteIsolation in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker who had compro…
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Medium 5.9
Missing authorization in Chromoting in Google Chrome on on Windows prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker to …
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Medium 5.3
Missing authorization in DataTransfer in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker who had comprom…
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Medium 4.2
Missing authorization in Permissions in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker who had compromi…
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Medium 6.5
Missing authorization in FedCM in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker to bypass web origin p…
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Medium 5.4
Missing authorization in Mobile in Google Chrome on on iOS prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker leveraging …
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Medium 4.2
Missing authorization in BrowserTag in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker who had compromis…
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Medium 4.3
Missing authorization in Google Lens in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker who had compromi…
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Medium 6.5
Missing authorization in Animation in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker to bypass web orig…
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Medium 6.5
Missing authorization in Network in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised …
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Medium 6.5
Missing authorization in API in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker leveraging social engine…
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Medium 4.2
Missing authorization in Translate in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker who had compromise…
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Medium 6.7
In platform_msg_handler_init of default_msg_handlers.c, there is a possible permission bypass due to a missing permissi…
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Medium 4.4
In is_pd_allowed of gem_msg.c, there is a possible permission bypass due to a missing permission check. This could lead…
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Medium 6.9
Payload relationship-query authorization bypass
Payload is a free and open source headless content management system. In versions before 3.90.0 and canary versions before 4.0.0-canary.34, querying a readable collection with a relationship to another collection can expose information about related documents…
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Medium 6.4
Payload: Insufficient Access Control in Stripe REST Proxy
Payload is a free and open source headless content management system. In @payloadcms/plugin-stripe versions before 3.90.0 and canary versions before 4.0.0-canary.34, an authenticated user who can reach the enabled optional Stripe REST proxy can perform uninte…
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Medium 6.1
Dell Container Storage Modules, versions prior to 1.18.0, contain(s) a Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Dell …
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Medium 6.5
Mooncake Store through 0.3.13.post1 Missing Authorization via NotifyOffloadSuccess RPC
Mooncake Store master through 0.3.13.post1 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to inject completed LOCAL_DISK replicas through the NotifyOffloadSuccess RPC. Attackers can mount a local disk segment with a self-…
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Medium 6.5
Mooncake Store through 0.3.13.post1 Missing Authorization in Replication Task RPC
Mooncake Store master through 0.3.13.post1 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to create, steal, and falsely complete replication tasks via the coro_rpc port. Attackers can invoke CreateCopyTask, CreateMoveTask…
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Medium 6.5
WordPress Delete All Comments of wordpress plugin <= 7.1 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Missing Authorization vulnerability in royalnavneet Delete All Comments of wordpress delete-all-comments-of-website allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Delete All Comments of wordpress: from n/a through 7…
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Medium 6.5
WordPress PayPlug for WooCommerce (Official) plugin <= 3.1.0 - Settings Change vulnerability
Unauthenticated Settings Change in PayPlug for WooCommerce (Official) <= 3.1.0 versions.