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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-2024-38220 Azure Stack Hub Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Azure Stack Hub 9.0 Critical2024-09-10
CVE-2024-45323 Fortinet FortiEDR 访问控制错误漏洞 — FortiEDR Manager 4.6 Medium2024-09-10
CVE-2024-37993 Siemens SIMATIC 访问控制错误漏洞 — SIMATIC Reader RF610R CMIIT 5.3 Medium2024-09-10
CVE-2024-39580 Dell InsightIQ 访问控制错误漏洞 — PowerScale InsightIQ 6.7 Medium2024-09-10
CVE-2024-6796 Vulnerability in Baxter Connex Health Portal — Connex Health Portal 8.2 High2024-09-09
CVE-2024-45392 SuiteCRM has wrong deletion permission checks on API delete call — SuiteCRM 7.7 High2024-09-05
CVE-2024-45313 Insecure default setting for Server Pro installed via Overleaf toolkit — overleaf 5.4 Medium2024-09-02
CVE-2024-20279 Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Unauthorized Policy Actions Vulnerability — Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) 4.3 Medium2024-08-28
CVE-2024-8216 nafisulbari/itsourcecode Insurance Management System Payment editPayment.php access control — Insurance Management System 5.4 Medium2024-08-27
CVE-2024-40766 SonicWALL SonicOS 访问控制错误漏洞 — SonicOS 7.5AIHighAI2024-08-23
CVE-2024-43477 Microsoft Entra ID Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Microsoft Entra 7.5 High2024-08-23
CVE-2024-3127 Improper Access Control in GitLab — GitLab 4.3 Medium2024-08-22
CVE-2024-43780 Unauthorized channel file upload — Mattermost 4.3 Medium2024-08-22
CVE-2024-42497 Insufficient permissions checks on teams — Mattermost 6.0 Medium2024-08-22
CVE-2024-40884 Unauthorized disabling of invite URL — Mattermost 2.7 Low2024-08-22
CVE-2024-8071 System Role with edit access to permissions can elevate themselves to system admin — Mattermost 4.7 Medium2024-08-22
CVE-2024-43813 IDOR when marking read a user's channel — Mattermost 4.3 Medium2024-08-22
CVE-2024-32939 Email addresses of remote users visible in props regardless of server settings — Mattermost 4.3 Medium2024-08-22
CVE-2024-38175 Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra 9.6 Critical2024-08-20
CVE-2024-27187 [20240804] - Core - Improper ACL for backend profile view — Joomla! CMS 6.5AIMediumAI2024-08-20
CVE-2024-43409 Ghost's improper authentication allows access to member information and actions — Ghost 6.5 Medium2024-08-20
CVE-2024-43397 Potential unauthorized access issue in apollo-portal — apollo 4.3 Medium2024-08-20
CVE-2024-43377 Umbraco CMS Improper Access Control vulnerability — Umbraco-CMS 5.4 Medium2024-08-20
CVE-2024-7921 Anhui Deshun Intelligent Technology Jieshun JieLink+ JSOTC2016 GetDataList access control — Jieshun JieLink+ JSOTC2016 4.3 Medium2024-08-19
CVE-2024-7920 Anhui Deshun Intelligent Technology Jieshun JieLink+ JSOTC2016 GetParkInThroughDeivces access control — Jieshun JieLink+ JSOTC2016 4.3 Medium2024-08-19
CVE-2024-7919 Anhui Deshun Intelligent Technology Jieshun JieLink+ JSOTC2016 GetDataList access control — Jieshun JieLink+ JSOTC2016 5.3 Medium2024-08-19
CVE-2024-6221 Improper Access Control in corydolphin/flask-cors — corydolphin/flask-cors 9.1AICriticalAI2024-08-18
CVE-2024-39414 Being able to import/export tax rates without proper privileges — Adobe Commerce 4.3 Medium2024-08-14
CVE-2024-38163 Windows Update Stack Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows Server 2022 7.8 High2024-08-13
CVE-2024-38223 Windows Initial Machine Configuration Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 6.8 Medium2024-08-13

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.