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 4.3
In JetBrains YouTrack before 2024.3.44799 user without appropriate permissions could restore workflows attached to a pr…
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Medium 4.3
In JetBrains YouTrack before 2024.3.44799 access to global app config data without appropriate permissions was possible
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Medium 5.5
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Medium 5.3
Incorrect Authorization in GitLab
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Medium 5.3
PAN-OS: User Impersonation in GlobalProtect Portal
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Medium 6.0
Incorrect authorization for Reports configuration in Guardian/CMC before 24.2.0
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Medium 6.1
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Medium 6.8
Amin Aliakbari, member of the AXIS OS Bug Bounty Program, has found a broken access control which would lead to less-pr…
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Medium 6.3
WordPress Droip plugin <= 1.1.1 - Subscriber+ Settings Change/Data Exposure Vulnerability
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Medium 5.3
OpenTelemetry Collector AWS Firehose Receiver Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
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Medium 6.4
AWS CDK RestApi not generating authorizationScope correctly in resultant CFN template
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Medium 4.3
Themify Builder <= 7.6.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Post Duplication
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Medium 6.5
Cisco Identity Services Engine Sensitive Information Disclosure Vulnerability
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Medium 5.1
Logsign Unified SecOps Platform Incorrect Authorization Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
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Medium 5.9
Incorrect Authorization allows read access to issues in GitHub Enterprise Server
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Medium 5.3
An Incorrect Authorization vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server, allowing an attacker to update the…
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Medium 4.3
A vulnerability has been identified in SINEC NMS (All versions < V3.0). The affected application does not properly enfo…
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Medium 4.3
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Medium 6.3
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Medium 5.4
`UserIdentity::is_verified` not checking verification status of own user identity while performing the check in matrix-rust-sdk
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Medium 4.3
Reports are still accessible even when `canView()` returns false in silverstripe/reports
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Medium 5.9
Improper authorization allows read access to issue content in GitHub Enterprise Server
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Medium 6.9
Improper authorization allows persistent access in GitHub Enterprise Server
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Medium 5.3
Red-DiscordBot vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization in commands API
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Medium 6.3
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Medium 4.8
A non-admin user can cause short-term disruption in Target VM availability in Citrix Provisioning
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Medium 6.3
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Medium 5.5
aimeos/ai-admin-jsonadm improper access control vulnerability allows editors to remove required records
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Medium 4.9
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Medium 6.8
Spotfire: NTLM token leakage
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Medium 5.3
Improper Access Control in lunary-ai/lunary
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Medium 5.5
IBM Security Access Manager Docker information disclosure
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Medium 6.5
Bookster <= 1.1.0 - Unauthenticated Appointment Status Update
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Medium 5.4
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Medium 6.5
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Medium 5.5
Acrobat Android : OverSecured Finding : Access to arbitrary* content providers via insecure Intent configuration
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Medium 5.3
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Medium 6.8
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Medium 4.3
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Medium 5.4
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