Incorrect Authorization
CWE-863
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.
We track 1,736 vulnerabilities of this type. 100% are rated high or critical, and the average CVSS score is 8.3. 23 have been exploited in real attacks.
How this weakness is prevented
- 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) 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.
- 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.
- 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 and the OWASP ESAPI Access Control feature.
- 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.
- 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.
Latest Incorrect Authorization vulnerabilities
- 8.6 High severity
HB810(US2) V1.0/1.6/2.0/2.6: Incorrect Authorization
In affected TP-Link Aginet devices, insufficient authorization validation allows authenticated low-privileged users to execute higher-privileged operations. An attacker may perform administrative actions such as creating privileged accounts or modifying critic
- 9.9 Critical severity
dokploy: Improper Privilege Management
Dokploy is a free, self-hostable Platform as a Service (PaaS). From 0.29.2 until 0.29.13, schedule.create and schedule.update in apps/dokploy/server/api/routers/schedule.ts derive serviceId from applicationId or composeId and execute the owner/admin host-sched
- 8.8 High severity
cachet: Incorrect Authorization
Cachet through 2.4.1 contains a server-side template injection vulnerability in incident template rendering that allows authenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code. Attackers can create malicious incident templates with Blade directives or Twig filters t
- 7.1 High severity
openbao: Incorrect Authorization
OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to version 2.5.4, OpenBao's namespaces provide multi-tenant separation. A tenant who intentionally leaks lease identifiers can have their lease and underlying credential revoked or renew
- 9.6 Critical severity
Supertokens: Incorrect Authorization
A lack of tenant separation in SuperTokens Inc. SuperTokens Core v6.0.0 to v11.4.0 allows an authenticated party in one tenant to access sessions, data, and endpoints of another tenant.
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Incorrect Authorization
A flaw was found in udisks2. A local attacker with an active console session can exploit insufficient authorization checking on the 'as-user' option in the org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Filesystem.Mount() D-Bus method. This allows the attacker to spoof the 'as-user'
- 8.5 High severity
decidim: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Decidim is a participatory democracy framework. Prior to 0.31.5 and in 0.32.0.rc1 before 0.32.0.rc2, JWT-backed API authentication is not bound to the organization selected by the current host, allowing a JWT issued for one tenant to be replayed against anothe
- 7.3 High severity
TinyAGI: Missing Authorization
A security vulnerability has been detected in TinyAGI 0.0.20. Impacted is the function processMessage of the file packages/main/src/index.ts of the component Message API Endpoint. Such manipulation leads to missing authorization. The attack can be launched rem
- 8.2 High severity
nuxt: Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity
Nuxt is an open-source web development framework for Vue.js. From 3.21.7 until 3.21.10 and 4.5.1, mixed-case routeRules keys can fail to match case-folded lookups when router.options.sensitive is false and drop appMiddleware authorization gates. This is caused
- 7.5 High severity
community: Incorrect Authorization
Documize Community's attachment download route (domain/attachment/endpoint.go, Download function, registered via AddPublic with no auth middleware) accepts a query parameter and grants access whenever the parameter is simply non-empty (len(secureToken) > 0), w
- 7.1 High severity
Neutron: Incorrect Authorization
In OpenStack Neutron before 28.0.2, the subnetpool onboarding API does not verify ownership of the target subnets. An authenticated user can onboard subnets from another project's shared network into their own subnetpool, mutating the victim's subnet state and
- 8.1 High severity
open-webui: Missing Authorization
Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.10.0 until 0.11.0, the DELETE /api/v1/folders/{id} handler in backend/open_webui/routers/folders.py allowed a user granted write access to a shared chat folder to perm
- 8.1 High severity
Flowise: Incorrect Authorization
Flowise is a drag-and-drop user interface for building customized large language model (LLM) flows. Prior to 3.1.3, Flowise has three OAuth2 credential endpoints that look up credentials by id alone with no workspaceId filter. The authorize, callback, and refr
- 8.8 High severity
Flowise: Improper Authorization
Flowise is a drag & drop user interface to build a customized large language model flow. Prior to 3.1.3, Flowise openai-assistants-vector-store endpoints accept a client-controlled credential parameter and load credentials by id without checking whether that c
- 8.1 High severity
Flowise: Incorrect Authorization
Flowise is a drag & drop user interface to build a customized large language model flow. Prior to 3.1.3, `DELETE /api/v1/chatflows/:id` authorized requests with checkAnyPermission('chatflows:delete,agentflows:delete'), so possession of either permission was su
- 7.5 High severity
Eclipse Milo: Incorrect Authorization
In Eclipse Milo versions 1.0.0 through 1.1.4, the Call service dispatches the original mixed batch to address-space handlers after calculating authorization, allowing an anonymous or otherwise low-privileged client to execute a denied method by batching it wit
- 9.8 Critical severity
Adobe Campaign Classic: Incorrect Authorization
Adobe Campaign Classic (ACC) is affected by an Incorrect Authorization vulnerability that could result in privilege escalation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interacti
- 8.5 High severity
chisel: Incorrect Authorization
Chisel is a TCP/UDP tunnel, transported over HTTP and secured via SSH. In versions prior to 1.11.5, authenticated clients can bypass --authfile ACL restrictions and tunnel traffic to arbitrary destinations reachable from the server. The ACL is enforced only du
- 9.1 Critical severity
Apache NiFi: Incorrect Authorization
Apache NiFi 2.0.0 through 2.10.0 support creating, reading, and deleting Assets associated with Parameter Contexts through the REST API. The framework authorizes asset deletion against the owning Parameter Context using the supplied Parameter Context Identifie
- 8.1 High severity
vikunja: Incorrect Authorization
Vikunja versions 0.22.0 through 2.3.0 fail to validate the principal type in API token management. Because user IDs and link-share IDs are independent numeric sequences and both resolve through a generic web.Auth.GetID() interface, a link-share JWT whose numer
- 7.5 High severity
Simply Schedule Appointments: Incorrect Authorization
The Simply Schedule Appointments WordPress plugin before 1.6.12.6 does not correctly restrict a bulk appointment operation to the requester's own records, allowing unauthenticated users to retrieve the personal data of all appointments across the site and, on
- 9.8 Critical severity
arcadedb: Incorrect Authorization
ArcadeDB versions before 26.7.2 fail to enforce scripting authorization checks on the SQL DEFINE FUNCTION statement with LANGUAGE js. Attackers with database access can execute arbitrary JavaScript code by submitting DEFINE FUNCTION statements, bypassing secur
- 7.4 High severity
Strands Agents Tools: Incorrect Authorization
Incorrect authorization in the http_request tool in Strands Agents Tools before 0.8.2 might allow remote attackers to obtain credentials configured via HTTP_REQUEST_TOKEN_CONFIG by influencing the LLM to route requests through actor-controlled proxy infrastruc
- 7.1 High severity
cloudreve: Incorrect Authorization
Cloudreve is a self-hosted file management and sharing system. Prior to 4.17.0, POST /api/v4/admin/policy/oauth/signin requires only Admin.Read even though GetOauthRedirectService persists caller-supplied OneDrive secret and app_id values, allowing an OAuth to
- 7.7 High severity
mcp-toolbox: Improper Authorization
An improper authorization and security-boundary bypass vulnerability in the bigquery-execute-sql tool component of Google mcp-toolbox versions 0.16.1 through 1.4.0 allows an authenticated attacker to bypass allowedDatasets validation checks. The toolbox relies
- 9.8 Critical severity
mcp-toolbox: Incorrect Authorization
Incorrect Authorization in the direct HTTP API tool invocation endpoint in Google mcp-toolbox versions v1.3.0 and v1.4.0 allows an unauthenticated attacker to invoke tools protected by the scopeRequired feature via sending tool invocation requests through lega
- 9.8 Critical severity
Adobe Campaign Classic: Incorrect Authorization
Adobe Campaign Classic (ACC) is affected by an Incorrect Authorization vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction. Scope is changed.
- 9.3 Critical severity
Google-ADK: Incorrect Authorization
A vulnerability in the Agent Development Kit (ADK) allows for continuation forgery in tool confirmations. An attacker who is able to manipulate or inject events into the session history can execute unauthorized tools by forging a tool confirmation response. Th
- 8.2 High severity
zitadel: Incorrect Authorization
ZITADEL is an open source identity management platform. From 2.43.0 through 2.71.19, from 3.0.0 until 3.4.11, and from 4.0.0 until 4.15.1, the email and phone self-management API paths in internal/command/user_v2_email.go, internal/command/user_v2_phone.go, an
- 7.2 High severity
Red Hat Quay 3.10: Incorrect Authorization
A flaw was found in Quay. A user configured in GLOBAL_READONLY_SUPER_USERS is able to view robot account tokens for repositories they are not a member of, allowing an attacker with read-only superuser privileges to impersonate any robot account.
- 8.5 High severity
open-iscsi: Incorrect Authorization
An Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in open-iscsi allows unprivilidged local users to use the isscsiuio control socket. This issue affects open-iscsi: from ? through 668ca1df9c9a1e9bdd5c999ae1d67c9c8909237e.
- 8.2 High severity
Apache Traffic Server: Incorrect Authorization
Apache Traffic Server can bypass IP access controls on UDS listeners and through ACL matching errors. This issue affects Apache Traffic Server: from 8.0.0 through 8.1.11, from 9.0.0 through 9.2.14, from 10.0.0 through 10.1.3. Users are recommended to upgrade t
- 9.8 Critical severity
Spreadsheet Price Changer for WooCommerce and…: Incorrect Authorization
The Spreadsheet Price Changer for WooCommerce and WP E-commerce – Light plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.37 vi the user_filter function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers t
- 7.5 High severity
goshs: Missing Authorization
goshs is a feature-rich single-binary file server for red teamers and developers. Prior to 2.1.1, the httpserver/updown.go bulkDownload handler for ?bulk&file= ZIP downloads did not call findEffectiveACL or applyCustomAuth, allowing unauthenticated reads of fi
- 8.6 High severity
Adobe Bridge: Incorrect Authorization
Bridge is affected by an Incorrect Authorization vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code. Exploitation of this issue requires user in
- 8.2 High severity
Adobe Bridge: Incorrect Authorization
Bridge is affected by an Incorrect Authorization vulnerability that could result in privilege escalation. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to gain unauthorized read and write access. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a v
- 8.8 High severity
OPENBMC: Incorrect Authorization
IBM OPENBMC FW1110.00 through FW1110.20, and FW1060.00 through FW1060.71 allows ReadOnly users to escalate privileges and give themselves administrator privileges.
- 8.8 High severity
DVG-IRF1401: Incorrect Authorization
A low privileged remote attacker can perform privileged configuration changes reserved for the administrator level including permission management due to incorrect authorization.
- 7.1 High severity
macOS: Incorrect Authorization
An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.7.8, macOS Sonoma 14.8.8, macOS Tahoe 26.6. A malicious application may be able to bypass Privacy preferences.
- 8.8 High severity
JFrog Artifactory Incorrect Authorization Exploited
JFrog Artifactory (Self Hosted) versions before 7.133.11 are vulnerable to a privilege escalation attack due to a validation check of the token signature/issuer and not the token’s scope.