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 5.5
Role: DNS Server Tampering Vulnerability
Missing authorization in DNS Server allows an authorized attacker to perform tampering locally.
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High 8.8
Windows AppX Deployment Extensions Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Missing authorization in Windows AppX Deployment Extensions allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
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Medium 5.5
Windows AppX Deployment Service Tampering Vulnerability
Missing authorization in Windows AppX Deployment Service allows an authorized attacker to perform tampering locally.
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Medium 5.5
Windows Event Tracing Spoofing Vulnerability
Improper authentication in Windows Event Tracing allows an authorized attacker to perform spoofing locally.
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High 8.8
Microsoft Office SharePoint Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Missing authorization in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
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High 8.8
Visual Studio Code Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Missing authorization in Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.
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High 7.8
Visual Studio Code Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Missing authorization in Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature locally.
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Medium 5.4
XBackBone through 3.8.2 Missing Authorization via Upload Vanity Endpoint
XBackBone through 3.8.2 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that allows authenticated users to change other users' upload share codes via the POST /upload/{id}/vanity route. Attackers can supply sequential upload ids to MediaController::createVanit…
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Medium 5.4
QloApps through 1.7.0 Missing Hotel Access Restriction in Credit Slips
QloApps through 1.7.0 contains an improper access control vulnerability in AdminSlipController that allows hotel-restricted back-office employees to access credit slips of all hotels. Attackers can list, export as PDF, mark as redeemed, and generate store-cre…
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Low 3.7
Aureus ERP through 1.6.0 Unpublished Blog Post Disclosure via Direct URL
Aureus ERP through 1.6.0 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read unpublished draft blog posts via the customer-facing post view page. Attackers who know or guess a post slug can retrieve the full title, con…
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High 7.1
youlai-boot through 2.21.1 Missing Authorization in User Status Update Endpoint
youlai-boot through 2.21.1 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that allows any authenticated user to enable or disable accounts because the updateUserStatus handler lacks a @PreAuthorize check. Attackers can send PATCH requests to /api/v1/users/{us…
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High 8.8
youlai-boot through 2.21.1 Missing Authorization in Role Menu Assignment Allows Privilege Escalation
youlai-boot through 2.21.1 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that allows authenticated users to assign arbitrary menu and button permissions to roles via PUT /api/v1/roles/{roleId}/menus. Low-privileged users such as the GUEST test account can gr…
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High 8.1
SkillHub through 0.2.22 Missing Authorization in CLI Skill Delete Endpoint
iFlytek SkillHub through 0.2.22 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that allows any authenticated user to permanently delete other users' skills via DELETE /api/cli/v1/skills/{namespace}/{slug}. Attackers can locate targets through the anonymous se…
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Medium 6.5
ai-fusion-video through 1.2.0 Missing Authorization in Configuration Read Endpoints Exposes Stored Credentials
Stonewuu ai-fusion-video through 1.2.0 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that allows authenticated non-admin users to read stored secrets through unprotected ApiConfigController and SystemConfigController endpoints. Attackers can query the api-co…
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Medium 5.3
Phase Console through 2.77.3 Missing Authorization via secretHistory GraphQL Query
Phase Console through 2.77.3 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that allows organisation members without Secrets read permission to read secret history via the secretHistory GraphQL query. Attackers holding an environment key can supply a known se…
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High 7.1
Wukong AICRM through 20260610 Missing Authorization in System Configuration APIs Exposes Stored AI Provider Keys
Wukong AICRM through 20260610 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the /systemConfig controller that allows any authenticated user to read the stored AI provider API key. Attackers can request GET /systemConfig/byType/ai for the cleartext key, or…
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High 8.8
Wukong AICRM through 20260610 Missing Authorization in User and Role Management APIs
Wukong AICRM through 20260610 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that allows any authenticated user to call user, role, department and agent administration APIs because no administrator check exists. Attackers can send POST requests to /managerUse…
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Low 3.4
A missing authorization vulnerability in Fortinet FortiSIEM 7.5.0 may allow attacker to execute unauthorized code or co…
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Medium 5.3
ThriveX-Server through 4.0 Missing Authorization via Article Retrieval Endpoints
ThriveX-Server through 4.0 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the GET /api/article and /api/article/{id} endpoints that allows unauthenticated attackers to read unpublished draft and soft-deleted articles. Attackers can request sequential artic…
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High 7.1
Makunet maku-boot 4.3.0 through 5.0.0 Missing Authorization via Mail and SMS Config Endpoints
Makunet maku-boot 4.3.0 through 5.0.0 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that allows authenticated users to read mail and SMS configurations by calling /sys/mail/config/list and /sys/sms/config/list without the required authority checks. Attackers…
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Medium 6.5
SmartAdmin through 3.30.0 Missing Authorization via AdminProtectController
SmartAdmin through 3.30.0 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in AdminProtectController that allows authenticated low-privileged employees to modify system-wide level-3 protection settings. Attackers can call the unannotated updateConfig and loginF…
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Medium 4.3
JetLinks Community through 2.10.0 Missing Authorization via Alarm Enable/Disable Endpoints
JetLinks Community through 2.10.0 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that allows users with only query access to enable or disable any alarm configuration. Because the AlarmConfigController _enable and _disable endpoints lack the save action annot…
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Medium 6.5
JetLinks Community through 2.10.0 Missing Authorization via Product-Level Transparent Codec Save
JetLinks Community through 2.10.0 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that allows users with only query access on transparent-codec to overwrite product codecs via POST /device/transparent-codec/{productId}. Because the endpoint lacks @SaveAction, …
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High 8.1
MateCloud through 5.0.8 Missing Authorization via /api/v1/admin/storage API
MateCloud through 5.0.8 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that allows any authenticated user to manage object storage by calling the unprotected /api/v1/admin/storage endpoints in StorageController. Low-privilege or self-registered users can supp…
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Medium 5.3
B3log Symphony through 3.6.4 Missing Authorization in Admin Console Routes
B3log Symphony through 3.6.4 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to reach admin routes because PermissionMidware.check permits routes lacking permission.rule.url entries. Attackers can request /admin/report/ign…
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Medium 5.4
Jorani before 1.0.4 Missing Authorization and SSRF via Contracts::import()
Jorani before 1.0.4 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in Contracts::import() that allows any authenticated user to import days off into any contract from an arbitrary URL. Attackers can submit a contract id and URL via POST to overwrite non-worki…
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Medium 4.3
Jorani before 1.0.4 Missing Authorization in HR Export Actions
Jorani before 1.0.4 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the Hr controller's exportLeaves, exportOvertime and exportEmployees actions, allowing any authenticated user to export HR data. Attackers can request hr/exportEmployees or hr/exportLeaves/…
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Medium 5.3
WordPress WP Event Solution plugin <= 4.1.25 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Missing Authorization vulnerability in Arraytics WP Event Solution wp-event-solution allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects WP Event Solution: from n/a through 4.1.25.
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Medium 4.3
WordPress Download Monitor integration for WooCommerce plugin <= 1.0.3 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Missing Authorization vulnerability in WP Chill Download Monitor integration for WooCommerce download-monitor-integration-for-woocommerce allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Download Monitor integration f…
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Medium 5.3
WordPress Premium Addons for Elementor plugin <= 4.11.110 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Missing Authorization vulnerability in LeapWorx Premium Addons for Elementor premium-addons-for-elementor allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Premium Addons for Elementor: from n/a through 4.11.110.
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High 8.8
Leantime: Any Authenticated User Can Self-Escalate to Admin via Unauthorized JSON-RPC Methods
Leantime is an open source project management system. Prior to 3.10.0, for the provisionally grouped account-creation and plugin-management surfaces, Leantime's JSON-RPC dispatcher in app/Domain/Api/Controllers/Jsonrpc.php exposes public API service methods, …
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High 7.3
girishsaraf Online-Appointment-Booking-System submit2 changebookingstatus.php authorization
A vulnerability was identified in girishsaraf Online-Appointment-Booking-System up to f427b4757128ca253d33d0cc4e87bbb9c999a4d5. This affects an unknown part of the file changebookingstatus.php of the component submit2 Handler. Such manipulation of the argumen…
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Medium 5.3
girishsaraf Online-Appointment-Booking-System Admin Display Pages showdoctor.php authorization
A vulnerability was determined in girishsaraf Online-Appointment-Booking-System up to f427b4757128ca253d33d0cc4e87bbb9c999a4d5. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file Admin/showdoctor.php of the component Admin Display Pages. This ma…
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Critical 9.1
Wazuh 3.9.0 before 4.14.8 Arbitrary File Overwrite RCE via process_files_from_worker
Wazuh versions from 3.9.0 before 4.14.8 contain an arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability in MasterHandler.process_files_from_worker allowing a cluster worker to overwrite protected master files. Attackers controlling a worker can use a trailing-slash basenam…
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High 7.5CVE-2026-74034 Public exploit
Wazuh 4.1.0 before 4.14.8 Arbitrary File Read via upgrade_custom Command
Wazuh from 4.1.0 before 4.14.8 contains a missing origin check in wm_agent_upgrade that allows enrolled agents to issue upgrade_custom commands with attacker-controlled file_path. Attackers can inject an upgrade_custom message over the agent channel to read a…
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High 8.6
NVIDIA AIStore for Linux and Kubernetes contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the ETL management API where …
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Medium 5.4
Mitigation bypass in the Enterprise Policies component
Mitigation bypass in the Enterprise Policies component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 158, Firefox ESR 153.5, Thunderbird 158, and Thunderbird 153.5.
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Critical 9.6
Site isolation issue in the DOM: Web Authentication component
Site isolation issue in the DOM: Web Authentication component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 158 and Thunderbird 158.
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Medium 4.3
Exposure of Role List to Low-Privileged Remote Users in Bender Custom&Partner Service
A low privileged remote attacker is able to view a list of roles that should only be accessible to administrators. This results in a low level of confidentiality breach, as no particularly sensitive information is affected.
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Medium 5.4
WordPress User Registration plugin <= 5.2.8 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Missing Authorization vulnerability in ThemeGrill User Registration user-registration allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects User Registration: from n/a through 5.2.8.