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
- 7.8 High severity
Android: Incorrect Authorization
In resetSettingsLocked of SettingsProvider.java, there is a possible lockscreen bypass due to a permissions bypass. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation
- 8.8 High severity
sa-token: Incorrect Authorization
An issue in Dromara SaToken version 1.3.50RC and before when using Spring dynamic controllers, a specially crafted request may cause an authentication bypass.
- 9.8 Critical severity
VMware Aria Operations for Logs: Incorrect Authorization
VMware Aria Operations for Logs contains an authentication bypass vulnerability. An unauthenticated, malicious actor can inject files into the operating system of an impacted appliance which can result in remote code execution.
- 9.8 Critical severity
Exos: Incorrect Authorization
An Access Control issue discovered in Extreme Networks Switch Engine (EXOS) before 32.5.1.5, also fixed in 22.7, 31.7.2 allows attackers to gain escalated privileges using crafted telnet commands via Redis server.
- 8.8 High severity
Adobe Commerce: Incorrect Authorization
Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.7-beta1 (and earlier), 2.4.6-p2 (and earlier), 2.4.5-p4 (and earlier) and 2.4.4-p5 (and earlier) are affected by an Incorrect Authorization . An authenticated attacker can exploit this to achieve information exposure and privilege e
- 8.8 High severity
FortiMail: Incorrect Authorization
An incorrect authorization vulnerability [CWE-863] in FortiMail webmail version 7.2.0 through 7.2.2, version 7.0.0 through 7.0.5 and below 6.4.7 allows an authenticated attacker to login on other users accounts from the same web domain via crafted HTTP or HTTP
- 7.5 High severity
n3m_firmware: Incorrect Authorization
An issue in NETIS SYSTEMS N3Mv2 v.1.0.1.865 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the authorization component in the HTTP request.
- 7.5 High severity
kubernetes: Incorrect Authorization
A flaw was found in OpenShift API, as admission checks do not enforce "custom-host" permissions. This issue could allow an attacker to violate the boundaries, as permissions will not be applied.
- 8.1 High severity
candlepin-4.3.7: Incorrect Authorization
An improper access control flaw was found in Candlepin. An attacker can create data scoped under another customer/tenant, which can result in loss of confidentiality and availability for the affected customer/tenant.
- 8.8 High severity
UptimeDC: Incorrect Authorization
Improper authorisation of regular users in ProIntegra Uptime DC software (versions below 2.0.0.33940) allows them to change passwords of all other users including administrators leading to a privilege escalation.
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Incorrect Authorization
An issue has been discovered in Ultimate-licensed GitLab EE affecting all versions starting 13.12 prior to 16.2.8, 16.3.0 prior to 16.3.5, and 16.4.0 prior to 16.4.1 that could allow an attacker to impersonate users in CI pipelines through direct transfer grou
- 8.1 High severity
Openshift Serverless 1 on RHEL 8: Incorrect Authorization
A flaw was found in Quarkus where HTTP security policies are not sanitizing certain character permutations correctly when accepting requests, resulting in incorrect evaluation of permissions. This issue could allow an attacker to bypass the security policy alt
- 7.5 High severity
ekorCCP: Incorrect Authorization
Incorrect authorisation in ekorCCP and ekorRCI, which could allow a remote attacker to obtain resources with sensitive information for the organisation, without being authenticated within the web server.
- 9.8 Critical severity
GitLab: Incorrect Authorization
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 13.12 before 16.2.7, all versions starting from 16.3 before 16.3.4. It was possible for an attacker to run pipeline jobs as an arbitrary user via scheduled security scan policies. T
- 7.1 High severity
Data Loss Prevention Endpoint for Windows: Incorrect Authorization
A Privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Trellix Windows DLP endpoint for windows which can be abused to delete any file/folder for which the user does not have permission to.
- 7.5 High severity
Cisco IOS XR Software: Incorrect Authorization
A vulnerability in the access control list (ACL) processing on MPLS interfaces in the ingress direction of Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass a configured ACL. This vulnerability is due to incomplete support for thi
- 9.8 Critical severity
SAP CommonCryptoLib: Incorrect Authorization
SAP CommonCryptoLib does not perform necessary authentication checks, which may result in missing or wrong authorization checks for an authenticated user, resulting in escalation of privileges. Depending on the application and the level of privileges acquired,
- 7.5 High severity
Aspera Faspex: Incorrect Authorization
IBM Aspera Faspex 4.0 through 4.4.2 and 5.0 through 5.0.5 could allow a malicious actor to bypass IP whitelist restrictions using a specially crafted HTTP request. IBM X-Force ID: 254268.
- 9.1 Critical severity
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance and Firepower Threat Defense Unauthorized Access Exploited
A vulnerability in the remote access VPN feature of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a brute force attack in an attempt to identify val
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: Incorrect Authorization
A vulnerability was found in subscription-manager that allows local privilege escalation due to inadequate authorization. The D-Bus interface com.redhat.RHSM1 exposes a significant number of methods to all users that could change the state of the registration.
- 9.8 Critical severity
Ivanti Sentry Authentication Bypass Exploited
A security vulnerability in MICS Admin Portal in Ivanti MobileIron Sentry versions 9.18.0 and below, which may allow an attacker to bypass authentication controls on the administrative interface due to an insufficiently restrictive Apache HTTPD configuration.
- 8.0 High severity
Horizon: Incorrect Authorization
In OpenMNS Horizon 31.0.8 and versions earlier than 32.0.2 and related Meridian versions, any user that has the ROLE_FILESYSTEM_EDITOR can easily escalate their privileges to ROLE_ADMIN or any other role. The solution is to upgrade to Meridian 2023.1.5 or Hori
- 8.8 High severity
TN-5900 Series: Improper Authentication
TN-5900 Series firmware version v3.3 and prior is vulnerable to improper-authentication vulnerability. This vulnerability arises from inadequate authentication measures implemented in the web API handler, allowing low-privileged APIs to execute restricted acti
- 9.8 Critical severity
Mivoice Connect: Incorrect Authorization
The Linux DVS server component of Mitel MiVoice Connect through 19.3 SP2 (22.24.1500.0) could allow an unauthenticated attacker with internal network access to execute arbitrary scripts due to improper access control.
- 7.5 High severity
HarmonyOS: Incorrect Authorization
Vulnerability of incomplete permission verification in the input method module. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause features to perform abnormally.
- 7.8 High severity
Intel(R) CSME software installer: Improper Access Control
Improper access control in the Intel(R) CSME software installer before version 2239.3.7.0 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
- 9.1 Critical severity
via_connect2: Incorrect Authorization
KramerAV VIA Connect (2) and VIA Go (2) devices with a version prior to 4.0.1.1326 exhibit a vulnerability that enables remote manipulation of the device. This vulnerability involves extracting the connection confirmation code remotely, bypassing the need to o
- 8.8 High severity
SAP Message Server: Incorrect Authorization
The ACL (Access Control List) of SAP Message Server - versions KERNEL 7.22, KERNEL 7.53, KERNEL 7.54, KERNEL 7.77, RNL64UC 7.22, RNL64UC 7.22EXT, RNL64UC 7.53, KRNL64NUC 7.22, KRNL64NUC 7.22EXT, can be bypassed in certain conditions, which may enable an authen
- 7.5 High severity
manageengine_adaudit_plus: Incorrect Authorization
The event analysis component in Zoho ManageEngine ADAudit Plus 7.1.1 allows an attacker to bypass audit detection by creating or renaming user accounts with a "$" symbol suffix. NOTE: the vendor states "We do not consider this as a security bug and it's an exp
- 9.8 Critical severity
dir-859_firmware: Incorrect Authorization
Authentication Bypass vulnerability in D-Link DIR-859 FW105b03 allows remote attackers to gain escalated privileges via via phpcgi_main. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.
- 9.8 Critical severity
dir-895: Incorrect Authorization
Authentication Bypass vulnerability in D-Link DIR-895 FW102b07 allows remote attackers to gain escalated privileges via via function phpcgi_main in cgibin. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.
- 9.8 Critical severity
dir-885l_firmware: Incorrect Authorization
Authentication Bypass vulnerability in D-Link DIR-885L FW102b01 allows remote attackers to gain escalated privileges via phpcgi. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.
- 9.8 Critical severity
dir-645_firmware: Incorrect Authorization
Authentication Bypass vulnerability in D-Link DIR-645 firmware version 1.03 allows remote attackers to gain escalated privileges via function phpcgi_main in cgibin. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.
- 8.8 High severity
kirby: Incorrect Authorization
Kirby is a content management system. A vulnerability in versions prior to 3.5.8.3, 3.6.6.3, 3.7.5.2, 3.8.4.1, and 3.9.6 affects all Kirby sites that might have potential attackers in the group of authenticated Panel users or that allow external visitors to up
- 7.8 High severity
Ubuntu Kernel: Incorrect Authorization
Local privilege escalation vulnerability in Ubuntu Kernels overlayfs ovl_copy_up_meta_inode_data skip permission checks when calling ovl_do_setxattr on Ubuntu kernels
- 7.8 High severity
Ubuntu Kernel: Incorrect Authorization
On Ubuntu kernels carrying both c914c0e27eb0 and "UBUNTU: SAUCE: overlayfs: Skip permission checking for trusted.overlayfs.* xattrs", an unprivileged user may set privileged extended attributes on the mounted files, leading them to be set on the upper files wi
- 7.5 High severity
armeria: Incorrect Authorization
Armeria is a microservice framework Spring supports Matrix variables. When Spring integration is used, Armeria calls Spring controllers via `TomcatService` or `JettyService` with the path that may contain matrix variables. Prior to version 1.24.3, the Armeria
- 7.2 High severity
Export and Import Users and Customers: Incorrect Authorization
The Export and Import Users and Customers plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'hf_update_customer' function called via an AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 2.4.1. This mak
- 8.8 High severity
Core Platform: Incorrect Authorization
A hidden API exists in TapHome's core platform before version 2023.2 that allows an authenticated, low privileged user to change passwords of other users without any prior knowledge. The attacker may gain full access to the device by using this vulnerability.
- 9.8 Critical severity
Online Computer And Laptop Store: Incorrect Authorization
Sourcecodester Online Computer and Laptop Store 1.0 is vulnerable to Incorrect Access Control, which allows remote attackers to elevate privileges to the administrator's role.