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 getAvailabilityStatus of EnableContentCapturePreferenceController.java, there is a possible way to bypass DISALLOW_CONTENT_CAPTURE due to a permissions bypass. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed.
- 7.8 High severity
Android: Incorrect Authorization
In removePermission of PermissionManagerServiceImpl.java, there is a possible way to obtain dangerous permissions without user consent due to a logic error in the code. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges ne
- 9.8 Critical severity
Stationguard: Incorrect Authorization
Incorrect authorization in OMICRON StationGuard 1.10 through 2.20 and StationScout 1.30 through 2.20 allows an attacker to bypass intended access restrictions.
- 8.8 High severity
Security Key Lifecycle Manager: Incorrect Authorization
IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager 3.0, 3.0.1, 4.0, 4.1, and 4.1.1 could allow an authenticated user to perform actions that they should not have access to due to improper authorization. IBM X-Force ID: 247630.
- 8.8 High severity
Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager: Incorrect Authorization
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of ClearPass Policy Manager allows an attacker with read-only privileges to perform actions that change the state of the ClearPass Policy Manager instance. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allo
- 7.5 High severity
Security Key Lifecycle Manager: Incorrect Authorization
IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager 3.0, 3.0.1, 4.0, 4.1, and 4.1.1 could allow an attacker to upload files that could be used in a denial of service attack due to incorrect authorization. IBM X-Force ID: 247629.
- 7.5 High severity
galaxy: Incorrect Authorization
Galaxy is an open-source platform for data analysis. All supported versions of Galaxy are affected prior to 22.01, 22.05, and 23.0 are affected by an insufficient permission check. Unsupported versions are likely affected as far back as the functionality of Vi
- 8.8 High severity
ProfileGrid: Incorrect Authorization
The ProfileGrid WordPress plugin before 5.3.1 provides an AJAX endpoint for resetting a user password but does not implement proper authorization. This allows a user with low privileges, such as subscriber, to change the password of any account, including Admi
- 7.3 High severity
cilium: Incorrect Authorization
Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. Prior to versions 1.11.15, 1.12.8, and 1.13.1, under specific conditions, Cilium may misattribute the source IP address of traffic to a cluster, identifying external tra
- 8.2 High severity
kubevirt: Incorrect Authorization
KubeVirt is a virtual machine management add-on for Kubernetes. In versions 0.59.0 and prior, if a malicious user has taken over a Kubernetes node where virt-handler (the KubeVirt node-daemon) is running, the virt-handler service account can be used to modify
- 4.4 Medium severity
Microsoft Windows SmartScreen Security Feature Bypass Exploited
Windows SmartScreen Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
- 7.5 High severity
iTop: Incorrect Authorization
Combodo iTop is an open source, web-based IT service management platform. Prior to versions 2.7.8 and 3.0.2-1, a user who can log in on iTop is able to take over any account just by knowing the account's username. This issue is fixed in versions 2.7.8 and 3.0.
- 8.1 High severity
Vault: Incorrect Authorization
HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise’s approle auth method allowed any authenticated user with access to an approle destroy endpoint to destroy the secret ID of any other role by providing the secret ID accessor. This vulnerability is fixed in Vault 1.13.0, 1.
- 7.0 High severity
Jenkins: Incorrect Authorization
Jenkins 2.393 and earlier, LTS 2.375.3 and earlier creates a temporary file in the default temporary directory with the default permissions for newly created files when uploading a plugin for installation, potentially allowing attackers with access to the Jenk
- 8.1 High severity
Zephyr Enterprise: Incorrect Authorization
There exists a privilege escalation vulnerability in SmartBear Zephyr Enterprise through 7.15.0 that could be exploited by authorized users to reset passwords for other accounts.
- 8.8 High severity
xcat-core: Incorrect Authorization
xCAT is a toolkit for deployment and administration of computer clusters. In versions prior to 2.16.5 if zones are configured as a mechanism to secure clusters in XCAT, it is possible for a local root user from one node to obtain credentials to SSH to any node
- 7.8 High severity
kylin-activation: Incorrect Authorization
A vulnerability was found in KylinSoft kylin-activation on KylinOS and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component File Import. The manipulation leads to improper authorization. The attack needs to be approache
- 7.5 High severity
Node: Incorrect Authorization
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Node.js <19.6.1, <18.14.1, <16.19.1 and <14.21.3 that made it possible to bypass the experimental Permissions (https://nodejs.org/api/permissions.html) feature in Node.js and access non authorized modules by using
- 7.8 High severity
Citrix Workspace App for Windows: Incorrect Authorization
Vulnerabilities have been identified that, collectively, allow a standard Windows user to perform operations as SYSTEM on the computer running Citrix Workspace app.
- 8.5 High severity
argo-cd: Incorrect Authorization
Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. All Argo CD versions starting with 2.3.0-rc1 and prior to 2.3.17, 2.4.23 2.5.11, and 2.6.2 are vulnerable to an improper authorization bug which allows users who have the ability to upda
- 7.8 High severity
containerd: Incorrect Authorization
containerd is an open source container runtime. A bug was found in containerd prior to versions 1.6.18 and 1.5.18 where supplementary groups are not set up properly inside a container. If an attacker has direct access to a container and manipulates their suppl
- 7.3 High severity
Microsoft Office Publisher Security Feature Bypass Exploited
Microsoft Publisher Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
- 8.1 High severity
datahub: Incorrect Authorization
DataHub is an open-source metadata platform. When not using authentication for the metadata service, which is the default configuration, the Metadata service (GMS) will use the X-DataHub-Actor HTTP header to infer the user the frontend is sending the request o
- 8.8 High severity
cms: Incorrect Authorization
Insecure Permission vulnerability in Schlix Web Inc SCHLIX CMS 2.2.7-2 allows attacker to upload arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code via the tristao parameter. NOTE: this is disputed by the vendor because an admin is intentionally allowed to upload new
- 7.8 High severity
Dell Command Intel vPro Out of Band (DCIV): Incorrect Authorization
Dell Command Intel vPro Out of Band, versions prior to 4.3.1, contain an Improper Authorization vulnerability. A locally authenticated malicious users could potentially exploit this vulnerability in order to write arbitrary files to the system.
- 7.2 High severity
Ws FTP Server: Incorrect Authorization
In Progress WS_FTP Server before 8.8, it is possible for a host administrator to elevate their privileges via the administrative interface due to insufficient authorization controls applied on user modification workflows.
- 9.8 Critical severity
dompdf: Incorrect Authorization
Dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter. The URI validation on dompdf 2.0.1 can be bypassed on SVG parsing by passing `<image>` tags with uppercase letters. This may lead to arbitrary object unserialize on PHP < 8, through the `phar` URL wrapper. An attacker can ex
- 9.8 Critical severity
Vdesk: Incorrect Authorization
An issue was discovered in LIVEBOX Collaboration vDesk before v018. Broken Access Control can occur under the /api/v1/registration/validateEmail endpoint, the /api/v1/vdeskintegration/user/adduser endpoint, and the /api/v1/registration/changePasswordUser endpo
- 7.5 High severity
EcoStruxure Geo SCADA Expert 2019 - 2021…: Incorrect Authorization
A CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization vulnerability exists that could cause Denial of Service against the Geo SCADA server when specific messages are sent to the server over the database server TCP port.
- 8.8 High severity
Apache IoTDB Workbench: Incorrect Authorization
Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in Apache Software Foundation Apache IoTDB.This issue affects the iotdb-web-workbench component from 0.13.0 before 0.13.3. iotdb-web-workbench is an optional component of IoTDB, providing a web console of the database. Thi
- 7.5 High severity
glpi: Incorrect Authorization
GLPI is a Free Asset and IT Management Software package. Versions 10.0.0 and above, prior to 10.0.6 are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization. This vulnerability allow unauthorized access to inventory files. Thus, if anonymous access to FAQ is allowed, invento
- 8.8 High severity
argo-cd: Incorrect Authorization
Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. Versions of Argo CD starting with v1.8.2 and prior to 2.3.13, 2.4.19, 2.5.6, and 2.6.0-rc-3 are vulnerable to an improper authorization bug causing the API to accept certain invalid toke
- 9.8 Critical severity
GitHub Enterprise Server: Incorrect Authorization
An incorrect authorization vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server, allowing for escalation of privileges in GraphQL API requests from GitHub Apps. This vulnerability allowed an app installed on an organization to gain access to and modify mos
- 9.8 Critical severity
KubeOperator: Incorrect Authorization
KubeOperator is an open source Kubernetes distribution focused on helping enterprises plan, deploy and operate production-level K8s clusters. In KubeOperator versions 3.16.3 and below, API interfaces with unauthorized entities and can leak sensitive informatio
- 7.1 High severity
Lumada APM: Incorrect Authorization
A vulnerability exists in the affected versions of Lumada APM’s User Asset Group feature due to a flaw in access control mechanism implementation on the “Limited Engineer” role, granting it access to the embedded Power BI reports feature. An attacker that mana
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Incorrect Authorization
Incorrect Authorization check affecting all versions of GitLab EE from 13.11 prior to 15.5.7, 15.6 prior to 15.6.4, and 15.7 prior to 15.7.2 allows group access tokens to continue working even after the group owner loses the ability to revoke them.
- 8.8 High severity
EasyTest: Incorrect Authorization
The Administrator function of EasyTest has an Incorrect Authorization vulnerability. A remote attacker authenticated as a general user can exploit this vulnerability to bypass the intended access restrictions, to make API functions calls, manipulate system and
- 7.5 High severity
alpine: Incorrect Authorization
Alpine is a scaffolding library in Java. Alpine prior to version 1.10.4 allows URL access filter bypass. This issue has been fixed in version 1.10.4. There are no known workarounds.
- 9.1 Critical severity
Planet Estream: Incorrect Authorization
Planet eStream before 6.72.10.07 allows attackers to call restricted functions, and perform unauthenticated uploads (Upload2.ashx) or access content uploaded by other users (View.aspx after Ajax.asmx/SaveGrantAccessList).
- 7.5 High severity
bigbluebutton: Incorrect Authorization
BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system. Versions prior to 2.4-rc-6 are vulnerable to Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data. The moderators-only webcams lock setting is not enforced on the backend, which allows an attacker to subscr