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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Medium 5.4
data.all authenticated users can perform restricted operations against DataSets and Environments
Due to inconsistent authorization permissions, data.all may allow an external actor with an authenticated account to perform restricted operations against DataSets and Environments.
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Medium 4.3
data.all authenticated users can perform mutating update operations on persisted notification records
An authenticated data.all user is able to perform mutating UPDATE operations on persisted Notification records in data.all for group notifications that their user is not a member of.
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Medium 6.5CVE-2024-44765 Public exploit
An Improper Authorization (Access Control Misconfiguration) vulnerability in MGT-COMMERCE GmbH CloudPanel v2.0.0 to v2.…
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Medium 6.5
Cisco Identity Services Engine Authorization Bypass Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco ISE could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to bypass the authorization mechanisms for specific administrative functions. This vulnerability is due to a lack of server-side validation of Adm…
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Medium 6.3CVE-2024-9902 Public exploit
Ansible-core: ansible-core user may read/write unauthorized content
A flaw was found in Ansible. The ansible-core `user` module can allow an unprivileged user to silently create or replace the contents of any file on any system path and take ownership of it when a privileged user executes the `user` module against the unprivi…
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Medium 6.5
WordPress Htaccess File Editor plugin <= 1.0.18 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in WP Chill Htaccess File Editor htaccess-file-editor allows Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs.This issue affects Htaccess File Editor: from n/a through <= 1.0.18.
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Medium 5.7
Sysmac Studio provided by OMRON Corporation contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability. If this vulnerability is…
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Medium 5.4
WordPress Greenshift plugin <=9.7 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in wpsoul Greenshift greenshift-animation-and-page-builder-blocks allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Greenshift: from n/a through <= 9.7.
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Medium 5.5
The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.1, macOS Sonoma 14.7.1, macOS Ven…
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Medium 5.5
The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15, macOS Sonoma 14.7.1, macOS Ventu…
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Medium 5.5
The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.1, macOS Sonoma 14.7.1, macOS Ven…
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Medium 5.5
The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.1, macOS Sonoma 14.7.1, macOS Ven…
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Medium 4.6
The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15, macOS Sonoma 14.7.1, macOS Ventu…
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Medium 5.5
The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.1, macOS Sonoma 14.7.1, macOS Ven…
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Medium 5.4
The Chef Habitat builder is impacted by Indirect Object reference(IDOR) by deletion of personal access token
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Medium 5.0
SchedMD Slurm before 24.05.4 has Incorrect Authorization. A mistake in authentication handling in stepmgr could permit …
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Medium 5.1
In ppmp_protect_buf of drm_fw.c, there is a possible information disclosure due to a logic error in the code. This coul…
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Medium 5.5
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Medium 6.2
Incorrect access control in XIAO HE Smart 4.3.1 allows attackers to access sensitive information by analyzing the code …
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Medium 6.5
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software, former…
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Medium 5.9
Archer Platform 2024.03 before version 2024.08 is affected by an authorization bypass vulnerability related to supporti…
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Medium 6.5
Archer Platform 2024.03 before version 2024.09 is affected by an API authorization bypass vulnerability related to supp…
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Medium 5.4
Cisco ATA 190 Series Analog Telephone Adapter Firmware Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco ATA 190 Series Analog Telephone Adapter firmware could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with low privileges to run commands as an Admin user. This vulnerability is due to incorrect authoriz…
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Medium 6.5CVE-2024-21262 Public exploit
Vulnerability in the MySQL Connectors product of Oracle MySQL (component: Connector/ODBC). Supported versions that are …
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Medium 4.3
Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise FIN Expenses product of Oracle PeopleSoft (component: Expenses). The support…
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Medium 5.8
OpenCanary Executes Commands From Potentially Writable Config File
OpenCanary, a multi-protocol network honeypot, directly executed commands taken from its config file. Prior to version 0.9.4, where the config file is stored in an unprivileged user directory but the daemon is executed by root, it’s possible for the unprivile…
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Medium 5.4
Adobe Commerce | Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863)
Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.7-p2, 2.4.6-p7, 2.4.5-p9, 2.4.4-p10 and earlier are affected by an Improper Authorization vulnerability that could result in a Security feature bypass. A low-privileged attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass security …
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Medium 6.5
Adobe Commerce | Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863)
Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.7-p2, 2.4.6-p7, 2.4.5-p9, 2.4.4-p10 and earlier are affected by an Improper Authorization vulnerability that could result in Privilege escalation. A low-privileged attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass security measu…
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Medium 5.4
Adobe Commerce | Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863)
Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.7-p2, 2.4.6-p7, 2.4.5-p9, 2.4.4-p10 and earlier are affected by an Improper Authorization vulnerability that could result in a Security feature bypass. A low-privileged attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass security …
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Medium 4.3
Adobe Commerce | Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863)
Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.7-p2, 2.4.6-p7, 2.4.5-p9, 2.4.4-p10 and earlier are affected by an Incorrect Authorization vulnerability that could result in a security feature bypass. A low-privileged attacker could exploit this vulnerability to have a low impac…
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Medium 4.9
Incorrect Authorization in GitLab
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Medium 6.3
IDOR in open-webui/open-webui
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Medium 6.8
Pomerium's service account access token may grant unintended access to databroker API
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Medium 4.3
Jenkins item creation restriction bypass vulnerability
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Medium 5.4
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Medium 6.5
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Medium 6.7
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Medium 4.3
Insufficient Authorization On Unlinked Channel Files
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Medium 4.7
A vulnerability in the Central Web Authentication (CWA) feature of Cisco IOS XE Software for Wireless Controllers could…
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Medium 6.5
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