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 8.2
File Browser share links remain accessible after Share/Download permissions are revoked
File Browser is a file managing interface for uploading, deleting, previewing, renaming, and editing files within a specified directory. Prior to 2.63.1, when an admin revokes a user's Share and Download permissions, existing share links created by that user …
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Medium 6.8
Authorization Bypass for SSL Certificate/Key Configuration Due to Option Name Mismatch in pyload-ng
pyLoad is a free and open-source download manager written in Python. Prior to 0.5.0b3.dev97, the ADMIN_ONLY_CORE_OPTIONS authorization set in set_config_value() uses incorrect option names ssl_cert and ssl_key, while the actual configuration option names are …
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Medium 6.1
Pi-hole FTL: CLI API sessions can import Teleporter archives and modify configuration
FTLDNS (pihole-FTL) provides an interactive API and also generates statistics for Pi-hole's Web interface. From 6.0 to before 6.6, Pi-hole FTL supports a CLI password feature (webserver.api.cli_pw) that creates “CLI” API sessions intended to be read-only for …
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Critical 9.8
changedetection.io has an Authentication Bypass via Decorator Ordering
changedetection.io is a free open source web page change detection tool. Prior to 0.54.8, the @login_optionally_required decorator is placed before (outer to) @blueprint.route() instead of after it. In Flask, @route() must be the outermost decorator because i…
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High 7.5
pyLoad has an incomplete fix for CVE-2026-33509: unprotected storage_folder enables arbitrary file write to Flask session store and code execution
pyLoad is a free and open-source download manager written in Python. The fix for CVE-2026-33509 added an ADMIN_ONLY_OPTIONS set to block non-admin users from modifying security-critical config options. The storage_folder option is not in this set and passes t…
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Medium 5.8
runZero Platform incorrect credential scope
An issue that could allow a credential to be updated and used for a task from outside of the authorized organization scope has been resolved. This is an instance of CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization, and has an estimated CVSS score of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/U…
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Medium 4.4
runZero Explorer missing authorization check
An issue that could allow access to Explorer groups from outside of the authorized organization scope has been resolved. This is an instance of CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization, and has an estimated CVSS score of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L (…
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Low 3.0
runZero Platform MCP endpoint information leak
An issue that could expose records outside of the authorized organization scope through the MCP endpoints has been resolved. This is an instance of CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization, and has an estimated CVSS score of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A…
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Low 2.2
runZero Platform task information leak
An issue that could expose task information outside of the authorized organization scope has been resolved. This is an instance of CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization, and has an estimated CVSS score of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N (2.2 Low). Thi…
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Medium 5.3
runZero Platform cleartext secret exposure
An issue that could allow an authorized user to view the clear-text secrets for a subset of credential types and fields has been resolved. This is an instance of CWE-522: Insufficiently Protected Credentials, and has an estimated CVSS score of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/A…
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Low 3.0
runZero Platform MCP certification information leak
An issue that allowed MCP agents to access certificate information from outside of their authorized organization scope has been resolved. This is an instance of CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization, and has an estimated CVSS score of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/…
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Medium 5.8
runZero Platform user creation leak
An issue that allowed administrators to create and update users outside of their authorized organization scope has been resolved. This is an instance of CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization, and has an estimated CVSS score of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/…
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Medium 5.8
runZero Platform MCP information leak
An issue that allowed MCP agents to access remediation and asset information from outside of the authorized organization scope has been resolved. This is an instance of CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization, and has an estimated CVSS score of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR…
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High 8.3
ScriptAlias CGI targets bypass directory auth in inets httpd (mod_auth vs mod_cgi path mismatch)
Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in Erlang OTP (inets modules) allows unauthenticated access to CGI scripts protected by directory rules when served via script_alias. When script_alias maps a URL prefix to a directory outside DocumentRoot, mod_auth evalu…
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High 8.1
Directus: Authenticated Users Can Extract Concealed Fields via Aggregate Queries
Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to 11.17.0, aggregate functions (min, max) applied to fields with the conceal special type incorrectly return raw database values instead of the masked placeholder. When co…
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High 7.1
Directus has a TUS Upload Authorization Bypass Allows Arbitrary File Overwrite
Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to 11.16.1, Directus' TUS resumable upload endpoint (/files/tus) allows any authenticated user with basic file upload permissions to overwrite arbitrary existing files by U…
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Medium 5.0
OpenFGA's BatchCheck within-request deduplication produces incorrect authorization decisions via list-value cache-key collision
OpenFGA is a high-performance and flexible authorization/permission engine built for developers and inspired by Google Zanzibar. From 1.8.0 to 1.13.1, under specific conditions, BatchCheck calls with multiple checks sent for the same object, relation, and use…
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High 8.7
LiteLLM affected by privilege escalation via unrestricted proxy configuration endpoint
LiteLLM is a proxy server (AI Gateway) to call LLM APIs in OpenAI (or native) format. Prior to 1.83.0, the /config/update endpoint does not enforce admin role authorization. A user who is already authenticated into the platform can then use this endpoint to m…
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Medium 6.5
Technostrobe HI-LED-WR120-G2 FsBrowseClean deletefile authorization
A security vulnerability has been detected in Technostrobe HI-LED-WR120-G2 5.5.0.1R6.03.30. Affected is the function deletefile of the component FsBrowseClean. The manipulation of the argument dir/path leads to missing authorization. The attack may be initiat…
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Critical 9.1
PraisonAI: Authentication Bypass in OAuthManager.validate_token()
PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. Prior to version 4.5.97, OAuthManager.validate_token() returns True for any token not found in its internal store, which is empty by default. Any HTTP request to the MCP server with an arbitrary Bearer token is treated…
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Medium 4.8
OpenPrinting CUPS: Authorization bypass via case-insensitive group-member lookup
OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. In versions 2.4.16 and prior, CUPS daemon (cupsd) contains an authorization bypass vulnerability due to case-insensitive username comparison during authorizat…
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High 7.1
Juju: Resource poisoning
Juju is an open source application orchestration engine that enables any application operation on any infrastructure at any scale through special operators called ‘charms’. From versions 2.9 to before 2.9.56 and 3.6 to before 3.6.19, any authenticated user, m…
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Medium 6.9
Juju: Read All Controller Logs From Compromised Workload
Juju is an open source application orchestration engine that enables any application operation on any infrastructure at any scale through special operators called ‘charms’. From versions 2.9 to before 2.9.56 and 3.6 to before 3.6.19, it is possible that a com…
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High 7.5
PdfDing: Password-protected share bypass via direct serve endpoint
PdfDing is a selfhosted PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices. Prior to version 1.7.0, an access-control vulnerability allows unauthenticated users to retrieve password-protected shared PDFs by directly calling…
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High 8.8
XenForo OAuth2 Unauthorized Scope Request
XenForo before 2.3.5 allows OAuth2 client applications to request unauthorized scopes. This affects any customer using OAuth2 clients on any version of XenForo 2.3 prior to 2.3.5, potentially allowing client applications to gain access beyond their intended a…
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High 7.5CVE-2026-34453 Scanner template
SiYuan: Broken access control in /api/bookmark/getBookmark allows unauthenticated publish visitors to read password-protected bookmarked content
SiYuan is a personal knowledge management system. Prior to version 3.6.2, the publish service exposes bookmarked blocks from password-protected documents to unauthenticated visitors. In publish/read-only mode, /api/bookmark/getBookmark filters bookmark result…
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Medium 6.5
PdfDing: Shared PDF Expiration, Max Views, and Deletion Bypass via Serve/Download Endpoints
PdfDing is a selfhosted PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices. Prior to version 1.7.1, check_shared_access_allowed() validates only session existence — it does not check SharedPdf.inactive (expiration / max vie…
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High 8.1
SciTokens C++: Sibling-Path Authorization Bypass
SciTokens C++ is a minimal library for creating and using SciTokens from C or C++. Prior to version 1.4.1, scitokens-cpp is vulnerable to an authorization bypass in path-based scope validation. The enforcer used a simple string-prefix comparison when checking…
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Critical 9.1
Parse Server: Cloud function validator bypass via prototype chain traversal
Parse Server is an open source backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js. Prior to versions 8.6.67 and 9.7.0-alpha.11, an attacker can bypass Cloud Function validator access controls by appending "prototype.constructor" to the fu…
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Critical 9.9CVE-2026-33579 Public exploit
OpenClaw < 2026.3.28 - Privilege Escalation via Missing Caller Scope Validation in Device Pair Approval
OpenClaw before 2026.3.28 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in the /pair approve command path that fails to forward caller scopes into the core approval check. A caller with pairing privileges but without admin privileges can approve pending devic…
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Medium 4.3
OpenClaw < 2026.3.28 - Sender Policy Allowlist Bypass via Policy Downgrade in Google Chat and Zalouser Extensions
OpenClaw before 2026.3.28 contains a sender policy bypass vulnerability in the Google Chat and Zalouser extensions where route-level group allowlist policies silently downgrade to open policy. Attackers can exploit this policy resolution flaw to bypass sender…
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High 8.1
OpenClaw < 2026.3.28 - Insufficient Scope Validation in node.pair.approve
OpenClaw before 2026.3.28 contains an insufficient scope validation vulnerability in the node pairing approval path that allows low-privilege operators to approve nodes with broader scopes. Attackers can exploit missing callerScopes validation in node-pairing…
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Medium 6.5
OpenClaw < 2026.3.28 - Unauthorized Media Download via Zalo Channel
OpenClaw before 2026.3.28 downloads and stores inbound media from Zalo channels before validating sender authorization. Unauthorized senders can force network fetches and disk writes to the media store by sending messages that are subsequently rejected.
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Medium 6.5
DNS over HTTPS ACL bypass
When the early_acl_drop (earlyACLDrop in Lua) option is disabled (default is enabled) on a DNS over HTTPs frontend using the nghttp2 provider, the ACL check is skipped, allowing all clients to send DoH queries regardless of the configured ACL.
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Medium 4.3
OpenClaw < 2026.3.8 - Sender Allowlist Bypass in Microsoft Teams Plugin via Route Allowlist Configuration
OpenClaw before 2026.3.8 contains a sender allowlist bypass vulnerability in its Microsoft Teams plugin that allows unauthorized senders to bypass intended authorization checks. When a team/channel route allowlist is configured with an empty groupAllowFrom pa…
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High 7.1
OpenClaw < 2026.3.11 - Node-Host Approval UI Mismatch Allows Execution of Unintended Commands
OpenClaw before 2026.3.11 contains an approval-integrity vulnerability in node-host system.run approvals that displays extracted shell payloads instead of the executed argv. Attackers can place wrapper binaries and induce wrapper-shaped commands to execute lo…
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High 8.8CVE-2026-34040 Public exploit
Moby: AuthZ plugin bypass with oversized request body
Moby is an open source container framework. Prior to version 29.3.1, a security vulnerability has been detected that allows attackers to bypass authorization plugins (AuthZ). This issue has been patched in version 29.3.1.
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High 8.3
Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) in parisneo/lollms
A critical security vulnerability in parisneo/lollms versions up to 2.2.0 allows any authenticated user to accept or reject friend requests belonging to other users. The `respond_request()` function in `backend/routers/friends.py` does not implement proper au…
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High 8.0
OpenClaw < 2026.3.11 - Approval Bypass via Unrecognized Script Runners
OpenClaw before 2026.3.11 contains an approval integrity vulnerability where system.run approvals fail to bind mutable file operands for certain script runners like tsx and jiti. Attackers can obtain approval for benign script commands, rewrite referenced scr…
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Critical 9.8
OpenClaw < 2026.3.12 - Weak Authorization via Mutable Group Names in Zalouser Allowlist
OpenClaw before 2026.3.12 contains a weak authorization vulnerability in Zalouser allowlist mode that matches mutable group display names instead of stable group identifiers. Attackers can create groups with identical names to allowlisted groups to bypass cha…