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
- 9.1 Critical severity
ColdFusion: Incorrect Authorization
ColdFusion versions 2025.1, 2023.13, 2021.19 and earlier are affected by an Improper Access Control vulnerability that could result in arbitrary file system read. A high-privileged attacker could leverage this vulnerability to access or modify sensitive data w
- 9.1 Critical severity
ColdFusion: Incorrect Authorization
ColdFusion versions 2025.1, 2023.13, 2021.19 and earlier are affected by an Incorrect Authorization vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. A high-privileged attacker could leverage this vulnerability to
- 7.2 High severity
web: Incorrect Authorization
Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in Centreon web (API Token creation form modules) allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects web: from 24.04.0 before 24.04.10, from 24.10.0 before 24.10.4.
- 8.8 High severity
Apache Superset: Incorrect Authorization
Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in Apache Superset allows ownership takeover of dashboards, charts or datasets by authenticated users with read permissions. This issue affects Apache Superset: through 4.1.1. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.
- 7.5 High severity
Znuny: Incorrect Authorization
An issue was discovered in Znuny through 7.1.3. If access to a ticket is not given, the content of S/MIME encrypted e-mail messages is visible to users with access to the CommunicationLog.
- 8.8 High severity
F5OS - Appliance: Incorrect Authorization
On F5OS, an improper authorization vulnerability exists where remotely authenticated users (LDAP, RADIUS, TACACS+) may be authorized with higher privilege F5OS roles. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.
- 8.1 High severity
F5OS - Appliance: Incorrect Authorization
On an F5OS system, if the root user had previously configured the system to allow login via SSH key-based authentication, and then enabled Appliance Mode; access via SSH key-based authentication is still allowed. For an attacker to exploit this vulnerability t
- 9.4 Critical severity
Operations Bridge Manager: Incorrect Authorization
Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in OpenText™ Operations Bridge Manager. The vulnerability could allows privilege escalation by authenticated users.This issue affects Operations Bridge Manager: 2023.05, 23.4, 24.2, 24.4.
- 8.8 High severity
Vault: Incorrect Authorization
Vault Community, Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) Azure Auth method did not correctly validate the claims in the Azure-issued token, resulting in the potential bypass of the bound_locations parameter on login. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.19.1 and Vault Enterp
- 7.4 High severity
opa: Improper Control of Generation of Code
Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine. Prior to version 1.4.0, when run as a server, OPA exposes an HTTP Data API for reading and writing documents. Requesting a virtual document through the Data API entails policy evaluation
- 7.8 High severity
GPU Display Driver, vGPU Software, Cloud Gaming: Incorrect Authorization
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability which could allow an unprivileged attacker to escalate permissions. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information d
- 7.5 High severity
Bookgy: Incorrect Authorization
Bookgy does not provide for proper authorisation control in multiple areas of the application. This deficiency could allow a malicious actor, without authentication, to reach private areas and/or areas intended for other roles.
- 9.8 Critical severity
Books-Management-System: Missing Authorization
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in withstars Books-Management-System 1.0. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file /admin/article/list of the component Background Interface. The manipulation leads to missing auth
- 9.8 Critical severity
Books-Management-System: Missing Authorization
A vulnerability was found in withstars Books-Management-System 1.0. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /allreaders.html of the component Background Interface. The manipulation leads to missing author
- 8.2 High severity
Pritunl-Client: Incorrect Authorization
In Pritunl Client before 1.3.4220.57, an administrator with access to /Applications can escalate privileges after uninstalling the product. Specifically, an administrator can insert a new file at the pathname of the removed pritunl-service file. This file then
- 7.0 High severity
PowerScale OneFS: Incorrect Authorization
Dell PowerScale OneFS, versions 9.4.0.0 through 9.10.0.1, contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability to access the cluster with previous privileges of a disabled
- 7.5 High severity
core: Incorrect Authorization
API Platform Core is a system to create hypermedia-driven REST and GraphQL APIs. Using the Relay special node type you can bypass the configured security on an operation. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.0.22 and 3.4.17.
- 9.8 Critical severity
macOS: Incorrect Authorization
A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.4, macOS Sonoma 14.7.5, macOS Ventura 13.7.5. A malicious app may be able to read or write to protected files.
- 7.5 High severity
iOS and iPadOS: Incorrect Authorization
This issue was addressed with improved data access restriction. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4, iPadOS 17.7.6, visionOS 2.4. Sensitive keychain data may be accessible from an iOS backup.
- 8.1 High severity
Htcondor: Incorrect Authorization
HTCondor 23.0.x before 23.0.22, 23.10.x before 23.10.22, 24.0.x before 24.0.6, and 24.6.x before 24.6.1 allows authenticated attackers to bypass authorization restrictions.
- 8.8 High severity
GitLab: Incorrect Authorization
An improper access control vulnerability in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.4 prior to 17.8.6, 17.9 prior to 17.9.3, and 17.10 prior to 17.10.1 allows a user who was an instance admin before but has since been downgraded to a regular user to contin
- 9.1 Critical severity
next.js: Incorrect Authorization
Next.js is a React framework for building full-stack web applications. Starting in version 1.11.4 and prior to versions 12.3.5, 13.5.9, 14.2.25, and 15.2.3, it is possible to bypass authorization checks within a Next.js application, if the authorization check
- 8.8 High severity
Mattermost: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command
Mattermost versions 10.4.x <= 10.4.2, 10.3.x <= 10.3.3, 9.11.x <= 9.11.8 fail to restrict command execution in archived channels, which allows authenticated users to run commands in archived channels.
- 7.3 High severity
lunary-ai/lunary: Incorrect Authorization
In version 1.5.5 of lunary-ai/lunary, a vulnerability exists where admins, who do not have direct permissions to access billing resources, can change the permissions of existing users to include billing permissions. This can lead to a privilege escalation scen
- 8.3 High severity
mintplex-labs/anything-llm: Incorrect Authorization
A vulnerability in the mintplex-labs/anything-llm repository, as of commit 5c40419, allows low privilege users to access the sensitive API endpoint "/api/system/custom-models". This access enables them to modify the model's API key and base path, leading to po
- 7.5 High severity
xwiki-platform: Incorrect Authorization
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. Prior to 15.10.14, 16.4.6, and 16.10.0-rc-1, it's possible for an user to get access to private information through the REST API - but could also be through another API - when a sub wiki is using "Prevent unregistered
- 7.8 High severity
Parallels Desktop: Incorrect Authorization
Alludo Parallels Desktop before 19.4.2 and 20.x before 20.2.2 for macOS on Intel platforms allows privilege escalation to root via the VM creation routine.
- 9.8 Critical severity
dataease: Incorrect Authorization
DataEase is an open source business intelligence and data visualization tool. Prior to version 2.10.6, there is a flaw in the authentication in the io.dataease.auth.filter.TokenFilter class, which may cause the risk of unauthorized access. The vulnerability ha
- 8.2 High severity
CAP back office application: Incorrect Authorization
This vulnerability exists in the CAP back office application due to improper authorization checks on certain API endpoints. An authenticated remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by manipulating API request URL to gain unauthorized access to other u
- 7.8 High severity
FortiSandbox: Incorrect Authorization
An incorrect authorization vulnerability [CWE-863] in FortiSandbox 4.4.0 through 4.4.6 may allow a low priviledged administrator to execute elevated CLI commands via the GUI console menu.
- 7.5 High severity
Masquerade: Incorrect Authorization
An issue was discovered in the Masquerade module before 1.x-1.0.1 for Backdrop CMS. It allows people to temporarily switch to another user account. The module provides a "Masquerade as admin" permission to restrict people (who can masquerade) from switching to
- 7.1 High severity
Server: Incorrect Authorization
Incorrect authorization in PAM vaults in Devolutions Server 2024.3.12 and earlier allows an authenticated user to bypass the 'add in root' permission.
- 9.8 Critical severity
Vasion Print: Incorrect Authorization
Vasion Print (formerly PrinterLogic) before Virtual Appliance Host 22.0.933 Application 20.0.2368 allows Insecure Extension Installation by Trusting HTTP Permission Methods on the Server Side V-2024-005.
- 7.8 High severity
AXIS OS: Incorrect Authorization
During an annual penetration test conducted on behalf of Axis Communication, Truesec discovered a flaw in the VAPIX Device Configuration framework that could lead to an incorrect user privilege level in the VAPIX service account D-Bus API.
- 8.8 High severity
Pentaho Data Integration & Analytics: 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. This allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions. (CWE-863) Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business
- 8.8 High severity
Instaclustr fork of Stratio's…: Incorrect Authorization
Systems running the Instaclustr fork of Stratio's Cassandra-Lucene-Index plugin versions 4.0-rc1-1.0.0 through 4.0.16-1.0.0 and 4.1.2-1.0.0 through 4.1.8-1.0.0, installed into Apache Cassandra version 4.x, are susceptible to a vulnerability which when successf
- 7.1 High severity
Nomad: Incorrect Authorization
Nomad Community and Nomad Enterprise ("Nomad") event stream configured with a wildcard namespace can bypass the ACL Policy allowing reads on other namespaces.
- 8.8 High severity
PiHome: Missing Authorization
A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in pihome-shc PiHome 2.0. This affects an unknown part of the file /user_accounts.php?uid of the component Role-Based Access Control. The manipulation leads to missing authorization. It is possible to initi
- 9.1 Critical severity
Adobe Commerce: Incorrect Authorization
Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.8-beta1, 2.4.7-p3, 2.4.6-p8, 2.4.5-p10, 2.4.4-p11 and earlier are affected by an Incorrect Authorization vulnerability that could result in Privilege escalation. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass security measu
- 8.2 High severity
Adobe Commerce: Incorrect Authorization
Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.8-beta1, 2.4.7-p3, 2.4.6-p8, 2.4.5-p10, 2.4.4-p11 and earlier are affected by an Incorrect Authorization vulnerability that could result in a Security feature bypass. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass security