Weakness (CWE)
CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization
The product performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check.
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-863
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High 8.6CVE-2025-21480 Exploited
Incorrect Authorization in Graphics Windows
Memory corruption due to unauthorized command execution in GPU micronode while executing specific sequence of commands.
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High 8.3
Grafana vulnerable to authenticated users bypassing dashboard, folder permissions
A security vulnerability in the /apis/dashboard.grafana.app/* endpoints allows authenticated users to bypass dashboard and folder permissions. The vulnerability affects all API versions (v0alpha1, v1alpha1, v2alpha1). Impact: - Viewers can view all dashboards…
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High 7.4
Navidrome Transcoding Permission Bypass Vulnerability Report
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High 8.3
Valtimo backend libraries allows objects in the object-api to be accessed and modified by unauthorized users
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High 7.4
An Incorrect Authorization vulnerability [CWE-863] in FortiClient Mac 7.4.0 through 7.4.2, 7.2.0 through 7.2.8, 7.0.0 t…
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High 8.8
Incorrect Authorization in Multiple WSO2 Products via Account Recovery SOAP Admin Service Leading to Account Takeover
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High 7.0
Password disclosure in Proget MDM
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High 8.4CVE-2025-43565 EPSS 18%
ColdFusion | Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863)
ColdFusion versions 2025.1, 2023.13, 2021.19 and earlier are affected by an Incorrect Authorization vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. A high-privileged attacker could leverage this vulnerability to b…
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High 7.2
A high privilege user is able to create and use a valid admin API token in centreon-web
Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in Centreon web (API Token creation form modules) allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects web: from 24.04.0 before 24.04.10, from 24.10.0 before 24.10.4.
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High 7.5
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High 8.1
F5OS Appliance Mode vulnerability
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High 8.8
F5OS vulnerability
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High 7.4
OPA server Data API HTTP path injection of Rego
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High 7.8
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability which could allow an unprivileged attacker to escalate per…
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High 7.3
withstars Books-Management-System Background Interface list authorization
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High 7.3
withstars Books-Management-System Background Interface allreaders.html authorization
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High 8.1
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High 8.2
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High 7.0
Dell PowerScale OneFS, versions 9.4.0.0 through 9.10.0.1, contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability. An unauthe…
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High —
tendermint-rs's Light Client Verifier allows malicious validators to spoof votes from other validators
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High 7.5
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High 7.5
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High 8.1
Two-factor Authentication (TFA) - Moderately critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2025-023
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High 7.5
Incorrect Authorization in GitLab
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High 8.1
HTCondor 23.0.x before 23.0.22, 23.10.x before 23.10.22, 24.0.x before 24.0.6, and 24.6.x before 24.6.1 allows authenti…
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High 7.8
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High 7.3
Privilege Escalation in lunary-ai/lunary
In lunary-ai/lunary before version 1.4.30, a privilege escalation vulnerability exists where admins can invite new members with billing permissions, thereby gaining unauthorized access to billing resources. This issue arises because the user creation endpoint…
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High 8.3
Incorrect Authorization in mintplex-labs/anything-llm
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High 7.3
Improper Role Modification by Admins for Billing Permissions in lunary-ai/lunary
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High 8.7
XWiki uses the wrong wiki reference in AuthorizationManager
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High 7.8
Alludo Parallels Desktop before 19.4.2 and 20.x before 20.2.2 for macOS on Intel platforms allows privilege escalation …
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High 8.2
Improper Access Control Vulnerability in CAP back office application
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High 7.1
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High 7.5
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High 7.1
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High 7.8
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High 8.5
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High 7.7
Improper Authorization in Reporting API
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High 8.8
Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server - Incorrect Authorization
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High 8.8
Cassandra-Lucene-Index allows bypass of Cassandra RBAC
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