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 8.8
Botslab G980H Dashcams Incorrect Authorization
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High 7.4
@bytebase/dbhub's read-only mode does not prevent database writes
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High 8.8CVE-2026-94609 Public exploit
authentik: Privilege Escalation to Superuser via Group Hierarchy
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High 7.4
SAML ePPN Attribute Validation Bypass in TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM's UlakPDF
Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM UlakPDF allows Authentication Bypass. This issue affects UlakPDF: through 09092026.
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High 8.1
Apache DolphinScheduler: Missing Authorization in Task Group APIs Allows Unauthorized Cross-Project Operations
A missing authorization vulnerability exists in the Task Group APIs of Apache DolphinScheduler. The affected APIs do not properly verify whether the authenticated user has permission to access the project associated with the target Task Group. This issue affe…
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High 7.3
Abdurrab5 online-makeup-store Admin functions.php confirm_user authorization
A vulnerability has been found in Abdurrab5 online-makeup-store. Affected is the function confirm_logged_in/confirm_user of the file functions.php of the component Admin Handler. Such manipulation of the argument adminid leads to missing authorization. The at…
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High 8.7
Klever-Go Account takeover: `kleverUpdateAccountPermission` authorizes on attacker-controlled `RecipientAddr` instead of the authenticated caller
Klever-Go is the Go implementation of the Klever blockchain protocol. Prior to 1.7.20, the KleverUpdateAccountPermission built-in authorizes replacement of a target account's permissions by checking attacker-controlled vmInput.RecipientAddr instead of authent…
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High 7.8CVE-2026-96512 Public exploit
Sudo: sudo: tz environment variable allows bypass of notbefore/notafter time-based authorization
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High 8.1
Vaultwarden through 1.37.3 Authorization Bypass via Missing Status Check
Vaultwarden through 1.37.3 omits organization membership status validation from three cipher access-restriction queries, allowing revoked and not-yet-confirmed members to retain read, write, delete, and attachment access to organization ciphers. Attackers wit…
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High 8.3
MCP Atlassian: JIRA_PROJECTS_FILTER / CONFLUENCE_SPACES_FILTER allow forbidden-project content exfiltration (one LIVE-proven on Atlassian Cloud)
MCP Atlassian is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Atlassian products (Confluence and Jira). Prior to 0.22.0, Jira search accepts a forbidden project clause because it checks only for the presence of project syntax, Confluence search uses an incomplet…
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High 7.7
Frigate: Viewer-Role User Can Access go2rtc Internal API to obtain sensitive information
Frigate is an open source network video recorder. Prior to 0.18.0, the prefix-matched location /api/go2rtc/api in docker/main/rootfs/usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf requires authentication but does not require an administrator role for GET requests, exposing …
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High 7.4
Databasement before 1.7.14 Authorization Bypass via Stale Invitation Token
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High 7.1
WP Table Builder <= 2.2.1 - Incorrect Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Post Deletion via 'ids' Parameter
The WP Table Builder – Drag & Drop Table Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.1. This is due to an operator precedence bug in the post-type guard within the trash_table_bulk() and rest…
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High 8.1
Tinyauth: forward-auth per-app ACL is matched case-sensitively against the (case-insensitive) hostname, letting an authenticated user reach apps they are not on the allowlist for
Tinyauth is an authentication and authorization server. Prior to 5.1.2, Tinyauth compares forwarded hostnames case-sensitively while reverse proxies route equivalent hostnames case-insensitively, allowing an authenticated low-privilege user to bypass per-app …
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High 8.9
Feast: `pull_request_target` integration tests run untrusted fork code with production cloud secrets; the `ok-to-test` label guard is bypassable via label persistence on `synchronize`
Feast is the open source feature store for AI and machine learning. Prior to 0.65.0, .github/workflows/pr_integration_tests.yml uses pull_request_target with the synchronize event and preserves ok-to-test, approved, or lgtm labels across newly pushed commits,…
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High 7.5
OpenBao's Templated Policies Allow Privilege Escalation via Wildcard Characters
OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.6.0, templated ACL, PKI, and SSH policies could substitute attacker-controlled identity data without rejecting syntax-significant characters. In ACL templated policies, asterisks, …
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High 8.1
Pki-core: dogtag pki v2 rest acl filter's reverse-lexicographic tie-break lets a ca agent invoke the admin-only raw profile creation endpoint
A flaw was found in pki-core. The v2 REST ACL filter selects a tie-breaking permission for colliding literal and wildcard ACL keys using lexicographic string comparison rather than specificity, causing a wildcard-mapped permission to override a more specific …
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High 7.1
Capsule: Tenant owner bypasses Capsule's forbidden namespace/service/node label and annotation enforcement
Capsule is a multi-tenancy and policy-based framework for Kubernetes. Prior to 0.13.7, ForbiddenListSpec.ExactMatch in pkg/api/forbidden_list.go sorts denied metadata keys case-insensitively and then uses sort.SearchStrings, which assumes byte-order sorting. …
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High 8.1
ArcadeDB before 26.9.1 TimeSeries ACL Bypass via Type Permission
ArcadeDB before 26.9.1 fails to enforce security-group types ACL entries for TimeSeries types because the ACL resolver builds permissions from bucket IDs, but TimeSeries types do not own normal record buckets. An authenticated low-privilege user can read or i…
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High 8.1
ArcadeDB before 26.9.1 ACL Bypass via Index and TimeSeries
ArcadeDB (Maven artifact com.arcadedb:arcadedb-engine) through 26.8.1 enforces its per-type/per-record access-control rules only in LocalBucket, keyed on file id. Query-execution paths that reach record data through LSM index files or the TimeSeries engine ne…
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High 7.5CVE-2026-75157 Public exploit
Apache Airflow: Asset queued-events DELETE endpoints gated on Dag READ instead of Dag EDIT (asset-triggered scheduling suppression)
Apache Airflow's asset queued-events DELETE endpoints checked the caller's Dag-axis permission with `READ` instead of `EDIT`. Any authenticated user who could read a Dag could therefore delete that Dag's queued asset events, silently suppressing asset-trigger…
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High 8.6
Azure Machine Learning Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Incorrect authorization in Azure Machine Learning allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information over a network.
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High 8.8
cc-connect through 1.5.0 User Allowlist Bypass via Feishu Card Actions
cc-connect through 1.5.0 fails to enforce per-user allowlist filtering in the onCardAction handler for Feishu interactive card callbacks. Attackers can dispatch agent commands by triggering card actions in admitted chats, bypassing the per-user access control…
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High 8.8
Manticore Search 27.0.0 before 28.4.4 Multi-Statement Authorization Bypass
Manticore Search versions 27.0.0 before 28.4.4 fail to validate permissions for all statements in multi-statement SQL requests, allowing read-only users to execute unauthorized queries. Attackers can append additional SELECT statements after the first stateme…
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High 8.1
GoAdmin through 1.2.26 Authorization Bypass via Query Parameter
GoAdmin through 1.2.26 fails to properly anchor the logout pattern when checking permissions, allowing authenticated users to bypass permission checks by appending a query parameter. Attackers can append a query string containing the admin prefix followed by …
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High 8.8
Coze Studio through 0.5.1 Cross-Tenant Database Access via Workflow SQL Node
Coze Studio through 0.5.1 fails to validate that table names in workflow SQL customization nodes belong to the caller's workspace. Authenticated attackers can enumerate predictable table identifiers and execute SQL statements against other workspaces' memory …
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High 8.1
Chroma through 1.5.9 Authorization Bypass via Collection Identifier
Chroma through 1.5.9 fails to validate tenant and database segments when resolving collections, allowing authenticated attackers to access collections from other tenants by knowing the collection identifier. Attackers can read, modify, and update records in f…
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High 8.1
Wiki.js through 2.5.314 Path Prefix Matching Authorization Bypass
Wiki.js through 2.5.314 fails to require path separators when matching START and END page rules, allowing attackers to access pages sharing a prefix with authorized folders. Users granted access to a folder can read and modify unrelated pages with matching pr…
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High 7.5
Skipper: OPA body-authz bypass: truncated_body mitigation fails open on chunked/HTTP-2 (incomplete fix CVE-2026-50197)
Skipper is an HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition. Prior to version 0.27.37, the opaAuthorizeRequestWithBody filter can authorize an oversized request after Skipper truncates the body presented to Open Policy Agent because the input.truncate…
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High 8.1
Unauthorized IODD File Upload due to Improper Authorization
A low-privileged remote attacker can exploit improper authorization in the /index.php/attached_devices_tab/do_upload endpoint to upload IODD files to the device, potentially altering device behavior or causing system crashes.
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High 8.5
Incorrect Authorization in GitLab
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 19.0 before 19.1.8, 19.2 before 19.2.6, and 19.3 before 19.3.2 that, under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user with developer permissions to execute a policy test …
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High 8.1
@zereight/mcp-gitlab has multiple safety-control bypasses: execute_graphql read-only + allow-list bypass, unauthenticated transports, session-exhaustion DoS
### Summary @zereight/mcp-gitlab exposes GitLab to an LLM agent while relying on read-only mode, a project allow-list, and transport auth as its safety controls. Five defects defeat those controls. Under the MCP threat model, tool-call arguments/content can b…
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High 8.3
Incorrect authorization in WebUI in Google Chrome prior to 153.0.8010.47 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised …
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High 7.4
Incorrect authorization in Core in Google Chrome on on Windows prior to 153.0.8010.47 allowed a local attacker to execu…
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High 7.7
Incorrect Authorization in GitLab
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High 8.3
Coder: Workspace agent API insecure redirect handling allowed cross-agent file read and write
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High 7.1
@jhb.software/payload-alt-text-plugin: Alt Text Endpoint Authorization Bypass via Payload Local API `overrideAccess` Omission
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High 7.7
ArcadeDB: Privilege escalation via reader role in /api/v1/command JS scripting language — arbitrary host file read
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High 8.1
ArcadeDB: Read-only users can mutate database schema (incomplete fix of CVE-2026-44221)
ArcadeDB is a Multi-Model DBMS. Prior to 26.6.1, the fix for CVE-2026-44221 added an UPDATE_SCHEMA authorization check only to LocalDocumentType.createProperty, while the remaining public schema mutators in engine/src/main/java/com/arcadedb/schema/LocalDocume…
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High 8.8
OpenBMC IPMI Privilege Escalation via Retargeted RAKP 1
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