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CWE-284 (访问控制不恰当) — Vulnerability Class 2142

2142 vulnerabilities classified as CWE-284 (访问控制不恰当). AI Chinese analysis included.

CWE-284 represents a critical security weakness where software fails to properly restrict access to sensitive resources, allowing unauthorized actors to interact with data or functions they should not reach. This flaw typically arises when developers neglect to implement robust authentication or authorization checks, enabling attackers to bypass security controls through direct URL manipulation, token forgery, or privilege escalation techniques. Exploitation often leads to severe consequences, including data breaches, unauthorized system modifications, or complete service disruption. To mitigate this risk, developers must enforce strict access control policies at every layer of the application architecture. This involves implementing comprehensive identity verification, applying the principle of least privilege, and rigorously validating user permissions before granting access to any protected resource, ensuring that only authenticated and authorized users can perform specific actions.

MITRE CWE Description
The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. Access control involves the use of several protection mechanisms such as: Authentication (proving the identity of an actor) Authorization (ensuring that a given actor can access a resource), and Accountability (tracking of activities that were performed) When any mechanism is not applied or otherwise fails, attackers can compromise the security of the product by gaining privileges, reading sensitive information, executing commands, evading detection, etc. There are two distinct behaviors that can introduce access control weaknesses: Specification: incorrect privileges, permissions, ownership, etc. are explicitly specified for either the user or the resource (for example, setting a password file to be world-writable, or giving administrator capabilities to a guest user). This action could be performed by the program or the administrator. Enforcement: the mechanism contains errors that prevent it from properly enforcing the specified access control requirements (e.g., allowing the user to specify their own privileges, or allowing a syntactically-incorrect ACL to produce insecure settings). This problem occurs within the program itself, in that it does not actually enforce the intended security policy that the administrator specifies.
Common Consequences (1)
OtherVaries by Context
Mitigations (2)
Architecture and Design, OperationVery carefully manage the setting, management, and handling of privileges. Explicitly manage trust zones in the software.
Architecture and DesignCompartmentalize the system to have "safe" areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area. Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separatio…
Examples (2)
This code temporarily raises the program's privileges to allow creation of a new user folder.
def makeNewUserDir(username): if invalidUsername(username): #avoid CWE-22 and CWE-78 print('Usernames cannot contain invalid characters') return False try: raisePrivileges() os.mkdir('/home/' + username) lowerPrivileges() except OSError: print('Unable to create new user directory for user:' + username) return False return True
Bad · Python
This function runs an arbitrary SQL query on a given database, returning the result of the query.
function runEmployeeQuery($dbName, $name){ mysql_select_db($dbName,$globalDbHandle) or die("Could not open Database".$dbName); //Use a prepared statement to avoid CWE-89 $preparedStatement = $globalDbHandle->prepare('SELECT * FROM employees WHERE name = :name'); $preparedStatement->execute(array(':name' => $name)); return $preparedStatement->fetchAll(); } /.../ $employeeRecord = runEmployeeQuery('EmployeeDB',$_GET['EmployeeName']);
Bad · PHP
CVE IDTitleCVSSSeverityPublished
CVE-2024-45397 H2O alllows bypassing address-based access control with 0-RTT — h2o 5.9 Medium2024-10-11
CVE-2024-45133 Adobe Commerce | Improper Access Control (CWE-284) — Adobe Commerce 2.7 Low2024-10-10
CVE-2024-45124 Adobe Commerce | Improper Access Control (CWE-284) — Adobe Commerce 5.3 Medium2024-10-10
CVE-2024-45121 Adobe Commerce | Improper Access Control (CWE-284) — Adobe Commerce 4.3 Medium2024-10-10
CVE-2024-45122 Adobe Commerce | Improper Access Control (CWE-284) — Adobe Commerce 4.3 Medium2024-10-10
CVE-2024-45135 Adobe Commerce | Improper Access Control (CWE-284) — Adobe Commerce 2.7 Low2024-10-10
CVE-2024-45130 Adobe Commerce | Improper Access Control (CWE-284) — Adobe Commerce 4.3 Medium2024-10-10
CVE-2024-45129 Adobe Commerce | Improper Access Control (CWE-284) — Adobe Commerce 4.3 Medium2024-10-10
CVE-2024-45118 Adobe Commerce | Improper Access Control (CWE-284) — Adobe Commerce 6.5 Medium2024-10-10
CVE-2024-45149 Adobe Commerce | Improper Access Control (CWE-284) — Adobe Commerce 2.7 Low2024-10-10
CVE-2024-43590 Visual C++ Redistributable Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Visual C++ Redistributable Installer 7.8 High2024-10-08
CVE-2024-43456 Windows Remote Desktop Services Tampering Vulnerability — Windows Server 2019 4.8 Medium2024-10-08
CVE-2024-43503 Microsoft SharePoint Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016 7.8 High2024-10-08
CVE-2024-9576 Improper access control in Linux Workbooth Distro — Linux Workbooth 7.0 High2024-10-07
CVE-2024-45408 eLabFTW contains a direct and indirect information disclosure — elabftw 7.5 High2024-10-01
CVE-2024-9321 SourceCodester Online Railway Reservation System view_details.php access control — Online Railway Reservation System 5.3 Medium2024-09-29
CVE-2024-9298 SourceCodester Online Railway Reservation System Ticket ?page=tickets access control — Online Railway Reservation System 4.3 Medium2024-09-28
CVE-2024-42406 Unauthorized access on archived channels — Mattermost 5.4 Medium2024-09-26
CVE-2024-47145 Unauthorized access on archived channels via file links — Mattermost 3.1 Low2024-09-26
CVE-2024-20465 Cisco IOS 安全漏洞 — IOS 5.8 Medium2024-09-25
CVE-2024-9003 Jinan Chicheng Company JFlow Attachment EntityMutliFile_Load.do AttachmentUploadController access control — JFlow 4.3 Medium2024-09-19
CVE-2024-38016 Microsoft Office Visio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft Office LTSC 2021 7.8 High2024-09-19
CVE-2024-46990 SSRF Loopback IP filter bypass in directus — directus 5.0 Medium2024-09-18
CVE-2024-39772 Silent Desktop Screenshot Capture — Mattermost 3.7 Low2024-09-16
CVE-2024-8779 The SYSCOM Group OMFLOW - Broken Access Control — OMFLOW 8.8 High2024-09-16
CVE-2024-8269 MStore API – Create Native Android & iOS Apps On The Cloud <= 4.15.3 - Unauthorized User Registration — MStore API – Create Native Android & iOS Apps On The Cloud 7.3 High2024-09-13
CVE-2024-20343 Cisco IOS XR Software CLI Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability — Cisco IOS XR Software 5.5 Medium2024-09-11
CVE-2024-43479 Microsoft Power Automate Desktop Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Power Automate for Desktop 8.5 High2024-09-10
CVE-2024-37341 Microsoft SQL Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Microsoft SQL Server 2017 (GDR) 8.8 High2024-09-10
CVE-2024-43492 Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Microsoft AutoUpdate for Mac 7.8 High2024-09-10

Vulnerabilities classified as CWE-284 (访问控制不恰当) represent 2142 CVEs. The CWE taxonomy describes the weakness; review individual CVEs for product-specific impact.