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
- 9.6 Critical severity
n8n: Incorrect Authorization
n8n is an open source workflow automation platform. Prior to 1.123.55, 2.25.7, and 2.26.2, a member-level user with editor access to a shared workflow could reference credentials they do not own via specific public API endpoints. Credential ownership checks we
- 10.0 Critical severity
FOSSBilling: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
FOSSBilling is a free, open-source billing and client management system. Starting in version 0.5.4 and prior to version 0.8.0, an authorization bypass in the API role handling allows unauthenticated access to privileged `/api/system/*` endpoints. Because `syst
- 7.7 High severity
Flowise: Incorrect Authorization
Flowise before 3.1.2 contains an information disclosure vulnerability in the /api/v1/chatflows/apikey/:apikey endpoint. When the keyonly query parameter is omitted (the default), the endpoint returns not only the chatflows bound to the supplied API key but als
- 8.7 High severity
nest: Incorrect Authorization
Nest is a framework for building scalable Node.js server-side applications. Prior to 11.1.24, an authentication bypass vulnerability exists in @nestjs/platform-fastify. When middleware is registered through NestJS's MiddlewareConsumer.forRoutes() API on the Fa
- 7.1 High severity
qSnapper: Incorrect Authorization
Incorrect caching of authentication between different users of the qSnapper dbus service before version 1.3.3 allowed any local attacker to use dbus functions after a privileged users has authenticated for them.
- 7.1 High severity
qSnapper: Incorrect Authorization
Incorrect caching of authentication between different polkit methods in qSnapper before version 1.3.3 allowed a local attacker to use functions like "restore from snapshot" even if only allowed to do "delete snapshot".
- 8.8 High severity
misp: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
MISP core contained multiple broken access-control flaws where authorization checks were performed against the wrong entity, or where ownership/editability checks were missing on write paths. In affected subsystems, a lower-privileged authenticated user with t
- 7.5 High severity
quarkus: Incorrect Authorization
Quarkus is a Java framework for building cloud-native applications. Prior to versions 3.37.0, 3.36.3, 3.33.2.1, 3.33.3, 3.27.4.1, 3.27.5, and 3.20.6.2, Quarkus HTTP path-based authorization policies can be bypassed using encoded semicolons (%3B) to smuggle mat
- 10.0 Critical severity
proxysql: Use of Less Trusted Source
ProxySQL is a proxy for MySQL and its forks, as well as PostgreSQL. In versions 2.0.0 through 3.0.8, the ProxySQL MySQL frontend accepts the `PROXY UNKNOWN <addr> <addr> <port> <port>\r\n` PP1 frame as a well-formed PROXY protocol header. The HAProxy PROXY pro
- 7.1 High severity
devguard: Improper Authorization
DevGuard provides vulnerability management for the full software supply chain. Prior to 1.4.2, on a DevGuard API instance with one or more public assets, any authenticated user — including users from a different organization with no membership or role in the a
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Incorrect Authorization
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ip6_vti: set netns_immutable on the fallback device. john1988 and Noam Rathaus reported that vti6_init_net() does not set the netns_immutable flag on the per-netns fallback tunnel device (ip6_
- 8.1 High severity
Apache APISIX: Incorrect Authorization
Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in Apache APISIX. An attacker can capitalise on authz-casdoor plugin under default configuration to authenticate themselves with credentials from a different source. This issue affects Apache APISIX: from 2.14.1 through 3.
- 8.8 High severity
PraisonAI: Incorrect Authorization
PraisonAI before 4.5.128 contains an arbitrary shell command execution vulnerability where the UI modules hardcode approval_mode to auto, overriding administrator configuration from PRAISON_APPROVAL_MODE environment variable. Authenticated attackers can instru
- 9.9 Critical severity
postiz-app: Authentication Bypass by Assumed-Immutable Data
Postiz is an AI social media scheduling tool. In versions prior to 2.21.8, the Skool integration callback signed an attacker-controlled JSON blob into a session-shape JWT using the application's JWT_SECRET, and the auth middleware trusted every claim in that J
- 9.1 Critical severity
Apache DolphinScheduler: Incorrect Authorization
Incorrect Authorization vulnerability of `/v2` experimental interface in Apache DolphinScheduler. This issue affects Apache DolphinScheduler: before 3.4.2. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.4.2, which fixes the issue.
- 9.8 Critical severity
Apache DolphinScheduler: Incorrect Authorization
DataSource API Missing Authorization Check Leads to Arbitrary Data Source Metadata Disclosure in Apache DolphinScheduler. This issue affects Apache DolphinScheduler: before 3.4.2. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.4.2, which fixes the issue.
- 9.1 Critical severity
langchain-ai: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
LangGraph Python SDK is used to connect to running LangGraph API servers, manage assistants, threads and stream runs from Python applications. Versions 0.3.14 and prior have unsafe URL path construction through unsanitized caller-supplied identifier values use
- 8.1 High severity
OpenClaw: Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs
OpenClaw before 2026.4.2 contains an inline-eval bypass vulnerability allowing authenticated operators to weaken strict allowlist checks via shell positional parameters. Attackers can combine allowlisted tools with shell positional arguments to place inline-ev
- 8.3 High severity
OpenClaw: Protection Mechanism Failure
OpenClaw before 2026.5.12 contains an argument pattern validation bypass in the exec allowlist that allows attackers to execute disallowed arguments for allowlisted executables on Linux and macOS systems. Attackers can bypass configured argPattern restrictions
- 7.5 High severity
mastodon: Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. In versions there is a missing condition in the check if remote accounts consented to be featured in a remote Collection could lead to attackers bypassing the check and faking consent.
- 7.1 High severity
Wertheim SafeController Software for VAULT…: Incorrect Authorization
The Wertheim SafeController Software, AssemblyVersion 6.15.8328.28014, contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability in the WebSocket communication used by the SafeController WebMessageBroker. An authenticated attacker with valid low-privileged branch user
- 8.8 High severity
OpenClaw: Incorrect Authorization
OpenClaw before 2026.5.6 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability in native command handling that allows authenticated senders to execute owner-only commands without proper policy enforcement. Attackers can trigger native command handling to bypass the c
- 7.1 High severity
nezha: Missing Authorization
Nezha Monitoring is a self-hostable, lightweight, servers and websites monitoring and O&M tool. From version 1.4.0 to before version 2.0.8, a RoleMember can fire other users' cron tasks via AlertRule.FailTriggerTasks (no ownership check). This issue has been p
- 7.7 High severity
nezha: Incorrect Authorization
Nezha Monitoring is a self-hostable, lightweight, servers and websites monitoring and O&M tool. From version 1.4.0 to before version 2.0.8, nezha's dashboard supports two user roles: RoleAdmin (Role==0) and RoleMember (Role==1). The notification routes POST /a
- 7.5 High severity
misp: Incorrect Authorization
An incorrect authorization vulnerability in MISP allows an organization administrator to target site administrator accounts belonging to the same organization through the administrative email functionality. The affected code restricted organization administrat
- 8.8 High severity
Mattermost: Incorrect Authorization
Mattermost versions 11.6.x <= 11.6.1, 11.5.x <= 11.5.4, 10.11.x <= 10.11.15, 10.11.x <= 10.11.16 Mattermost fails to require role-management authorization when setting the scheme_admin flag on group syncable link and patch endpoints, which allows a user with g
- 7.2 High severity
Mattermost: Incorrect Authorization
Mattermost versions 11.6.x <= 11.6.1, 11.5.x <= 11.5.4, 10.11.x <= 10.11.15, 10.11.x <= 10.11.16 fail to require system-level permission when patching protected default system roles, which allows authenticated users with delegated user-management permissions t
- 8.8 High severity
ChromaDB: Incorrect Authorization
The SimpleRBACAuthorizationProvider authorization provider in versions 0.5.0 or later of the ChromaDB Python project evaluates whether a user holds a given permission but never checks which tenant, database, or collection that permission applies to allowing us
- 8.2 High severity
nuxt: Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity
Nuxt is an open-source web development framework for Vue.js. From versions 3.11.0 to before 3.21.7 and 4.0.0 to before 4.4.7, there is a route-rule middleware bypass via case-sensitivity mismatch between vue-router and the routeRules matcher. This issue has be
- 7.1 High severity
questbot: Incorrect Authorization
Quest Bot is an opensource Discord Bot. Prior to version 1.1.6, the purge and slowmode commands check only guild-level permissions on the invoking member. They do not check the member’s effective permissions in the channel where the command is run. A user deni
- 8.8 High severity
OpenClaw: Incorrect Authorization
OpenClaw before 2026.5.6 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability in Telegram interactive callbacks that allows authenticated users to skip commands.allowFrom validation. Attackers can invoke affected callbacks to mark themselves as authorized senders be
- 8.8 High severity
mcp-server-kubernetes: Incorrect Authorization
mcp-server-kubernetes is a Model Context Protocol server for Kubernetes cluster management. Prior to version 3.6.0, mcp-server-kubernetes exposes three environment variables (ALLOW_ONLY_READONLY_TOOLS, ALLOW_ONLY_NON_DESTRUCTIVE_TOOLS, ALLOWED_TOOLS) documente
- 8.1 High severity
Copy & Delete Posts: Incorrect Authorization
Copy & Delete Posts through 1.5.4 lets any plugin-enabled non-admin role invoke every operation in the cdp_action_handling AJAX handler. Attackers with an enabled role can delete posts or overwrite plugin settings via the f parameter, bypassing per-function ca
- 7.2 High severity
Cloud NGFW: Incorrect Authorization
A privilege escalation vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® software allows an authenticated administrator with access to the Command Line Interface (CLI) to perform actions on the device with root privileges. The security risk posed by this issue is si
- 8.5 High severity
fission: Improper Access Control
Fission is an open-source, Kubernetes-native serverless framework that simplifies the deployment of functions and applications on Kubernetes. Prior to version 1.24.0, the Fission Function admission webhook (pkg/webhook/function.go) validated that spec.secrets[
- 7.7 High severity
fission: Improper Access Control
Fission is an open-source, Kubernetes-native serverless framework that simplifies the deployment of functions and applications on Kubernetes. Prior to version 1.24.0, a Fission Function spec carries three reference types — Secret, ConfigMap, and Package. The f
- 9.9 Critical severity
roxy-wi: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Roxy-WI is a web interface for managing Haproxy, Nginx, Apache and Keepalived servers. In versions 8.2.6.4 and prior, the install blueprint declares only bp.before_request → @jwt_required() (app/routes/install/routes.py:36-39). The individual endpoints install
- 9.1 Critical severity
roxy-wi: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Roxy-WI is a web interface for managing Haproxy, Nginx, Apache and Keepalived servers. In versions 8.2.6.4 and prior, PUT /smon/check (app/routes/smon/routes.py:117-138) gates only on roxywi_common.check_user_group_for_flask() — which validates that the caller
- 8.5 High severity
roxy-wi: Missing Authorization
Roxy-WI is a web interface for managing Haproxy, Nginx, Apache and Keepalived servers. In versions 8.2.6.4 and prior, agent_action (app/routes/smon/agent_routes.py:166-179) has decorators @bp.post('/agent/action/<action>') and @jwt_required() only — no role ch
- 8.1 High severity
File Station 5: Incorrect Authorization
An incorrect authorization vulnerability has been reported to affect File Station 6. If a remote attacker gains a user account, they can then exploit the vulnerability to bypass intended access restrictions. We have already fixed the vulnerability in the follo