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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Low 2.7
Adobe Commerce | Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863)
Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.8, 2.4.7-p5, 2.4.6-p10, 2.4.5-p12, 2.4.4-p13 and earlier are affected by an Incorrect Authorization vulnerability that could result in a Security feature bypass. A high-privileged attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypas…
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Low 2.7
Nodes can bypass dynamic resource allocation authorization checks
A vulnerability exists in the NodeRestriction admission controller where nodes can bypass dynamic resource allocation authorization checks. When the DynamicResourceAllocation feature gate is enabled, the controller properly validates resource claim statuses d…
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Low 3.1
Mattermost Guest User Information Disclosure Vulnerability
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Low 3.1
Improper Access Control in Mattermost allows System Managers to view team details despite role restrictions
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Low 3.1
Improper Access Control in Mattermost Channel Member API
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Low 3.7
TYPO3 Vulnerable to Information Disclosure via DBAL Restriction Handling
TYPO3 is an open source, PHP based web content management system. Starting in version 9.0.0 and prior to versions 9.5.51 ELTS, 10.4.50 ELTS, 11.5.44 ELTS, 12.4.31 LTS, and 13.4.12 LTS, when performing a database query involving multiple tables through the dat…
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Low 2.7
System Admin Cannot Access Environment settings in System Console While System Manager Can
Mattermost versions 10.5.x <= 10.5.3, 9.11.x <= 9.11.11 fail to check `RestrictSystemAdmin` setting if user doesn't have access to `ExperimentalSettings` which allows a System Manager to access `ExperimentSettings` when `RestrictSystemAdmin` is true via Syste…
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Low 2.7
Improper Privilege Management
An authenticated administrator could modify the Created By username for a user account
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Low 3.8
XWiki Solr script service doesn't take dropped programming right into account
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Low 3.1
Unauthorized Playbooks Post Deletion in Mattermost Playbooks Plugin
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Low 2.5
In Soffid Console 3.6.31 before 3.6.32, authorization to use the pam service is mishandled.
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Low 3.1
Unauthorized AI bot activation via Wrangler plugin
Mattermost versions 10.5.x <= 10.5.1, 10.4.x <= 10.4.3, 9.11.x <= 9.11.9 fail to prevent Wrangler posts from triggering AI responses. This vulnerability allows users without access to the AI bot to activate it by attaching the activate_ai override property to…
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Low 2.7
Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: InnoDB). Supported versions that are affected are…
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Low 3.1
Leaked Metadata of Deleted Files via Bookmark Creation
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Low 2.7
Unauthorized Access to User Activity Logs API by delegated granular administration roles
Mattermost versions 9.11.x <= 9.11.8 fail to enforce proper access controls on the /api/v4/audits endpoint, allowing users with delegated granular administration roles who lack access to Compliance Monitoring to retrieve User Activity Logs.
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Low 2.3
Apache ActiveMQ Artemis: Address routing-type can be updated by user without the createAddress permission
A vulnerability exists in Apache ActiveMQ Artemis whereby a user with the createDurableQueue or createNonDurableQueue permission on an address can augment the routing-type supported by that address even if said user doesn't have the createAddress permission f…
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Low 2.4
This issue was addressed through improved state management. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4. A person w…
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Low 3.4
Node based network policies may incorrectly allow workload traffic
Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. Node based network policies (`fromNodes` and `toNodes`) will incorrectly permit traffic to/from non-node endpoints that share the labels specified in `fromNodes` and `t…
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Low 3.2
East-west traffic not subject to egress policy enforcement for requests via Gateway API load balancers
Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. For Cilium users who use Gateway API for Ingress for some services and use LB-IPAM or BGP for LB Service implementation and use network policies to block egress traffic…
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Low 3.3
Auto-Enrollment of Team Admins into Private Channels without explicit consent
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Low 3.3
Failure to Properly Enforce Port ACLs on CPU generated packets in CX 9300 Switches
A vulnerability has been identified in the port ACL functionality of AOS-CX software running on the HPE Aruba Networking CX 9300 Switch Series only and affects: - AOS-CX 10.14.xxxx : All patches - AOS-CX 10.15.xxxx : 10.15.1000 and below The vulnerability is …
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Low 2.1
Zincati allows unprivileged access to rpm-ostree D-Bus `Deploy()` and `FinalizeDeployment()` methods
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Low 2.7
Incorrect Authorization in GitLab
An issue was discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.5 prior to 17.7.7, 17.8 prior to 17.8.5, and 17.9 prior to 17.9.2 which allowed a user with a custom permission to approve pending membership requests beyond the maximum number of allowed use…
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Low 3.6
An incorrect authorization vulnerability [CWE-863] in FortiSIEM 7.2 all versions, 7.1 all versions, 7.0 all versions, 6…
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Low 3.1
Incorrect Authorization in GitLab
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Low 3.1
Teachers can evade trusttext config when restoring glossary entries
Additional checks were required to ensure trusttext is applied (when enabled) to glossary entries being restored.
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Low 3.1
IDOR in badges allows disabling of arbitrary badges
Insufficient capability checks made it possible to disable badges a user does not have permission to access.
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Low 3.3
A privacy issue was addressed with improved private data redaction for log entries. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoi…
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Low 3.3
An authentication issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3. …
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Low 3.3
A logic issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.3, macOS Sonoma 14.7.3, macOS…
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Low 3.8
Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Security: Privileges). Supported versions…
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Low 3.8
Access control flaw for team admins allows unauthorized team additions
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Low 3.4
Unauthenticated Traffic Handling Flaw Allows Packet Leakage on HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 series switches
A vulnerability in the firewall component of HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 Series Switches exists. It could allow an unauthenticated adjacent attacker to conduct a packet forwarding attack against the ICMP and UDP protocol. For this attack to be successful an…
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Low 2.9
Some Honor products are affected by incorrect privilege assignment vulnerability, successful exploitation could cause d…
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Low 3.7
Easy Digital Downloads 3.1 - 3.3.4 - Improper Authorization to Paywall Bypass
The Easy Digital Downloads plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Improper Authorization in versions 3.1 through 3.3.4. This is due to a lack of sufficient validation checks within the 'verify_guest_email' function to ensure the requesting user is the intended…
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Low 3.1
Incorrect Authorization in GitLab
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 14.3 before 17.4.6, all versions starting from 17.5 before 17.5.4 all versions starting from 17.6 before 17.6.2, that allows group users to view confidential incident title through…
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Low 2.7
Unauthorized Access to view channels' details
Mattermost versions 9.10.x <= 9.10.2, 9.11.x <= 9.11.1, 9.5.x <= 9.5.9 and 10.0.x <= 10.0.0 fail to properly authorize the requests to /api/v4/channels which allows a User or System Manager, with "Read Groups" permission but with no access for channels to re…
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Low 3.1
Information Disclosure in TYPO3 Page Tree
TYPO3 is a free and open source Content Management Framework. Backend users could see items in the backend page tree without having access if the mounts pointed to pages restricted for their user/group, or if no mounts were configured but the pages allowed ac…
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Low 3.3
BTS is affected by information disclosure vulnerability where mobile network operator personnel connected over BTS Web …
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Low 2.0
Missing Authorization check in SAP NetWeaver Application Server for ABAP and ABAP Platform
SAP NetWeaver Application Server for ABAP and ABAP Platform allow users with high privileges to execute a program that reveals data over the network. This results in a minimal impact on confidentiality of the application.